Allan Lengel, editor of ticklethewire.com, is a veteran journalist who has covered law enforcement at major publications including the Washington Post and the Detroit News. He also served as an intern under the late investigative columnist Jack Anderson and was an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Maryland.
Trump Replaces One Bad Pick for D.C. U.S. Attorney With Another Bad One
OPINION By Allan Lengel When President Donald Trump picked Ed Martin as the interim U.S. Attorney in D.C. in January, he knew he was getting someone with unbridled loyalty who would carry out his vindictive agenda without challenge. Martin didn’t disappoint. Martin fired or demoted assistant U.S. Attorneys who were part of investigations into Trump…
GOP House Wastes Time and Taxpayers’ Money Impeaching Mayorkas While Failing to Address Border Crisis
There’s no chance, zero, of conviction in the Senate.
America’s Disease It Won’t Cure
By Allan Lengel I was in Israel in November when two bombs went off at bus stops in Jerusalem, several miles from where I was renting an apartment for the month. Two people died and about 20 were injured. I happened to be in Haifa, about two hours away, when it happened. When I returned…
Lengel: Michigan School Shootings a Reminder that America Loves its Guns More Than Its Children
By Allan Lengel Some thought the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012 would be the horrific event that would lead to true gun-law reform. Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza used his mother’s Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle to kill 26 people, 20 of them children no older than 8. Earlier in the day, he murdered…
Commentator Frank Figliuzzi Fabricated Passage in FBI Book and MSNBC Could Care Less
By Allan Lengel To NBC News and its sister station MSNBC, being truthful doesn’t always matter. And that’s the truth. Starting with my high school journalism teacher Robert Jackson, I learned that the truth in journalism was sacred. Intentionally straying from it had grave consequences. That has held true through my many years in journalism,…