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Cheney Facing Deposition: Judge Rules Man Can Sue Secret Service
By not in system - AOL NewsDENVER -- A Colorado man can sue two Secret Service agents who arrested him after he touched former Vice President Dick Cheney on the arm in 2006 and told him his Iraq War policies were "disgusting," a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling means Steven Howards can try to subpoena Cheney to testify about the incident, said David Lane, Howards' attorney. "I fully intend on deposing the former vice president," Lane told The Associated Press. Alex Brandon, AP The attorney for Colorado man arrested in 2006 after touching Dick Cheney on the arm said he intends to subpoena the ...
Tareq and Michaele Salahi Unlikely to Be Charged in White House Party Crashing Case
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyRemember Tareq and Michaele Salahi? They're the couple who dominated headlines for a month or so in late 2009 when they allegedly crashed a White House state dinner and got their pictures snapped with both President Obama and Vice President Biden. Since then, federal law enforcement officials have been trying to determine whether the Salahis should face charges in the incident, which embarrased the administration and the Secret Service. On Thursday The Wall Street Journal, citing the legal blog Ticklethewire, reported that no charges are likely to be filed against the Virginia ...
Source: Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computer Network
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - A federal government official tells The Associated Press that investigators are trying to identify computer hackers who have repeatedly broken into the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market. The official says that the hackers haven't compromised the exchange's trading platform and that investigators are looking into a range of possible motives for the cyberattacks - from financial gain to a national security threat. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the inquiry by the FBI and Secret Service is continuing. The official says the penetrations ...
Russia Locked in Spy Spat With ... Tiny Ireland?
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- An icy chill has descended on relations between Dublin and Moscow after Ireland booted out a Russian diplomat over the alleged use of forged Irish passports by Russian secret agents. The government in Dublin ordered the unnamed diplomat's expulsion on Tuesday, after a police investigation concluded that Russian intelligence agencies stole the identities of at least six Irish citizens. Their documents were then allegedly used to provide cover for members of a 10-strong spy ring that was cracked by the U.S. last year. One member of the cell, so-called "sexy spy" Anna Chapman, ...
Agent Was 'Chillingly Close' to Shooting LBJ
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(Oct. 20) -- In a striking admission sure to stoke the imaginations of conspiracy theorists everywhere, a former Secret Service agent reveals how he came "chillingly close" to shooting President Lyndon B. Johnson right outside his home just hours after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. So reads "The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence," a new book co-authored by the former agent himself, Gerald "Jerry" Blaine, and writer Lisa McCubbin. In it, the authors vividly recall Nov. 22, 1963, the fateful night of Kennedy's assassination, when Blaine was assigned to watch ...
Report: Holocaust Museum Shooter Targeted Axelrod
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(Sept. 30) -- Weeks after a white supremacist shot and killed a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 2009, White House senior adviser David Axelrod showed up at his favorite Chicago Jewish deli with an entourage of Secret Service agents. In the past, he had no protection. But in July 2009, it was different. He was spotted with the added protection at Manny's, a cafeteria-style deli on South Jefferson Street. Talbot County Sheriff Office/AP Accused in 2009's fatal shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, James von Brunn also targeted White House Senior Adviser ...
Bushes Poisoned? Secret Service's Files Don't Clear Up Mystery
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn her recently released memoir, "Spoken from the Heart," former first lady Laura Bush made the chilling claim that she and her husband were "poisoned" in 2007 while attending the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. According to her book, Mrs. Bush said that during the trip both she and her husband succumbed to a "mysterious" illness, and that for a portion of their stay, the former president was confined to bed rest. The suspicious condition also struck members of the president's detail, Mrs. Bush said. "Exceedingly alarmed," Mrs. Bush wrote in her book, "the Secret Service went on full ...
Woman Is Flying High After Record-Breaking Freefall
By David Moye - AOL News(June 13) -- A 50-year-old businesswoman is flying high after setting an unofficial world record for skydiving. On Saturday, Cynthia Ferrara of Golden, Colo., said she became the new female record holder for the highest-altitude freefall. Ferrara's jump was made over Memphis, Tenn., from a height of 29,270 feet, beating the old record of 29,200 feet set two months ago by a female member of President Barack Obama's Secret Service team, who asked to remain anonymous. Frank Goldsmith Cynthia Ferrara, 50, is claiming the unofficial record for the longest freefall by a woman after jumping out of ...
Did Third White House State Dinner Crasher Know the Salahis?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe third crasher of the White House's state dinner for the Prime Minister of India in November may be connected to reality television show aspirants Tareq and Michaele Salahi who are the subjects of a criminal probe into how they wrangled their way into the party. ...
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