By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – John Wilke, kick-ass investigative reporter, kick-ass friend, kick-ass human being, may not have been one of a kind, but certainly the last of a kind in an industry going through some radical changes. A dogged investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Washington, he talked endlessly on the…
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This sad story, which happened on Thursday, seems reminiscent of the Great Depression: Job losses and suicides. By Del Quentin Wilber and Paul Duggan Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON — A 59-year-old lawyer with an Atlanta-based firm who was about to lose his job because of the economy was found dead in his Washington office…
This case was plagued with troubles. It’s best that the government dropped it. Taking it to trial could have been a disaster. And that’s something the Justice Department doesn’t need at a time it’s trying to upgrade its image and correct the mistakes of the past. By NEIL A. LEWIS New York Times WASHINGTON –…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Secret Service agent from Maryland, who traveled to Mexico with President Obama last month “probably contracted swine flu and infected several members of his family in Anne Arundel County”, the Washington Post reported Friday. Marc S. Griswold, who had left the Secret Service a while ago and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. has named John Malcolm Bales the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas. He replaces Rebecca Gregory, who stepped down to join the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Bales, 54 of Nacogdoches,Tex., will take the post on Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said….
