Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If help is requested, FBI agents may be deployed to Nigeria to help search for 276 teenage girls abducted from a school, ABC News reports. The news comes after the leader of Boko Haram, an African Islamist group, pledged to sell the girls as slaves. “God has commanded me to sell them,”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are complaining that the FBI is getting in the way of legal counsel’s constitutional rights to meet with their client in private. The Boston Globe reports that lawyers filed the complaints in court late Monday, saying FBI continues to be “needlessly intrusive.” The lawyers…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI in Salt Lake City is dealing with some pesky intruders. A variety of birds are nesting in the FBI’s parking garage – a problem that has plagued the bureau since moving into their new International Center Facility in 2012, FOX 13 reports. “Because of the vast amount of waste left by…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A scathing new book argues that Border Patrol agents have squandered the rights of undocumented immigrants by resorting to rogue tactics after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles Times reports. “The U.S. Border Patrol is not just the ‘men in green,’ it is a much larger complex and industrial world…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In her latest defiance of the Obama administration, DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart is unwilling to support a bill to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for federal drug crimes, the Huffington Post reports. Leonhart has departed with the administration on reforms to drug policies heralded by President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. “Having…
