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Column: Ex-TSA Official Says Document Scandal “Not The Worst Breach of Security Since 9/11”
Ellen Howe served as Assistant Administrator for Strategic Communications & Public Affairs at the Transportation Security Administration from March 2006 until January 2009. By Ellen Howe Security DeBrief Certainly the posting of the Transportation Security Administration’s screening procedures on the Internet was not the agency’s finest hour, but it was not the worst breach of…
Gotti Jr. Optimistic Feds Won’t Try for 5th Trial; Hopes to Move from NY
John “Junior” Gotti/youtube photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Gotti Jr., who walked free after his fourth mistrial on racketeering charges, is “optimistic” the feds won’t try for a fifth trial, the website Gang Land News reports. The website, written by former New York Daily News mob writer Jerry Capeci, noted that Gotti could get…
5 TSA Employees Placed on Leave in Scandal Involving Published Document
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Five Transportation Security Administration employees have been placed on administrative leave in response to news that a 93-page confidential document on airport passenger screening was posted on the Internet, the agency said. Assistant Homeland Security secretary David Heyman told senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday that a full investigation into…
FBI Dir. Mueller Gets Briefed in Chicago on Terrorism Case Linked to Mumbai
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller III was in Chicago on Wednesday where he was briefed on a terror case involving the 2008 deadly attacks in Mumbai, the Chicago Tribune reported. Mueller reportedly was told details of the case involving David Coleman Headley, who is charged with plotting to attack a…
Atty. Gen. Holder Visits NY to Check on 9/11 Terror Trial
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. showed up in New York on Wednesday, not for a Broadway play, but to inspect how a real live drama will play out in the Big Apple. The Associated Press reported that Holder arrived unannounced to inspect a jail and a Manhattan courthouse where suspected 9/11…
5 D.C. Area Students Arrested in Pakistan
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5 Bank Heists Later, Calif. FBI Still Hunting for the “Geezer Bandit”
“Geezer Bandit”/fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Five bank robberies and 3 ½ months later, the FBI in San Diego is still hunting for an elusive, elderly mystery man in his 70s dubbed the “Geezer Bandit.” “It’s unusual for someone this age to be robbing banks,” Darrell Foxworth, an FBI spokesman in San Diego said…
Head of D.C. FBI Joseph Persichini Jr. Leaving Under Cloud Involving Test Scandal; 2 Other Top Officials Also Face Scrutiny
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph Persichini Jr., the head of the Washington field office, is retiring this month under a cloud of allegations that he violated agency rules when taking an open book exam. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Office of Professional Responsibility, which conducts ethics investigations, had recommended disciplinary action,…