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Beleaguered Secret Service Expected to Get Retired Marine As New Leader
The troubled Secret Service, which has been in the news for a number of embarrassing and alarming blunders, is about to get a new leader.
Border Patrol Pursuit Leaves 7 Injured After SUV Carrying Illegal Immigrants Crashed
Seven Mexican nationals were injured when an SUV being pursued by Border Patrol agents crashed in Chula Vista, Calif. on Sunday.
President Trump Is Wrong about Border Wall Fixing Drug Problem, Experts Say
President Trump’s claim that a wall will stop illegal drugs from coming across the Southwest border ignores a key fact about the international trade.
Secret Service Deals With Malia Obama’s Stalker in NY
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Malia Obama, the oldest daughter of former President Barack Obama, is still feeling the public pain of living a high-profile existence. Jair Cardoso, 30, of Brooklyn man who stalked her in New York was taken into custody earlier this month after he was caught trying to get to her again at…
Public Advocate Objected to FBI’s Unrestricted Access to NSA Data
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In 2015, in her first appearance as a “friend of the court” representing the American public, Amy Jeffress, a former federal prosecutor, argued before the very secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, that the FBI was violating the Fourth Amendment by giving agents “virtually unrestricted” access to data from one of the…
Comey May Have Wanted to Stay Out of Politics, But He Shaped the Election — N.Y. Times
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A New York Times examination of the 2016 election concludes that while FBI Director James Comey insisted on avoiding politics, he ended up shaping the election. Reporters Matt Apuzzo, Michael Schmidt, Adam Goldman and Eric Lichblau of the New York Times write about the Hillary Clinton email probe: But with polls…
DOJ Official Leading Trump-Russia Investigation Unexpectedly Leaving
The high-ranking Justice Department official who is heading the government’s investigation into potential ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign announced unexpectedly that she is leaving the DOJ in May.