By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s an infinite number of scary scenarios involving terrorists. Here’s one: The FBI is warning that terrorists are working to acquire the cyber skills to carry out catastrophic attacks that could involve taking down America’s 911 emergency response system, Business Insider reports. Aristedes Mahairas, a special agent in charge of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-Senate Intelligence Committee aide was arrested on Thursday in an investigation of classified information leaks to reporters, the New York Times reports. James A. Wolfe, 57, is charged with lying repeatedly to investigators about his contacts with three reporters. According to the authorities, Mr. Wolfe made false statements to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a bill that make sense. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida has introduced legislation to establish a computerized, searchable database of gun records under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Monday. The Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act would strike a current federal prohibition on the creation of a searchable…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The White House and Secret Service are scratching their head over this one. They wonder how a National Security Council contractor was able to keep working in the highly secure presidential compound for more than a month after he allegedly shot a man at his Maryland home, reports Dion Nissenbaum and Del Quentin Wilber…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The number three position at the Justice Department remains vacant, and for good reason, writes New York Magazine: The Trump administration can’t seem to fill it, probably because the president has made it clear there’s a good risk of becoming the next target of his ire. As President Trump continues to denigrate Attorney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI agent who accidentally fired his gun over the weekend while dancing at a club in Denver has been the subject of plenty ridicule. So, it was only a matter of time before the late night comics jumped in. On Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert played a mock training video in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com “The privacy rights of the gun owner have trumped my right not to get shot in the head,” David Chipman, senior policy advisor for the gun control group Giffords, tells station WTSP. “When you see the tracing center, and how difficult it is for patriots to do their job, that isn’t accidental,”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com How did special counsel Robert Mueller’s people get Paul Manafort’s encrypted messages that suggested he was tampering with witnesses? In a court filing, Mueller writes that FBI investigators obtained messages that Manafort—who was indicted for money laundering, tax fraud, and other charges in October—sent to witnesses in his case in an attempt…
