By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W. Va.) got the word anyone sweating through a federal investigation loves to hear: No charges are going to be filed against you. Reporter Paul Kane of the Washington Post reports that the Justice Department has shut down its criminal probe into the 14-term Congressman after…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — There’s no shortage of B.S. in this town. Enter John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative. Reporter Jeff Stein has penned an article in Foreign Policy magazine saying that Kiriakou’s claim that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists was simply misleading. Stein writes that “Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Some of the rank and file in the Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday hailed the long awaited decision by President Obama on Monday to nominate acting DEA chief Michele Leonhart for the permanent post. She must now get confirmed by the Senate. “She’s good for the agency,” said one…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a bizarre incident that had a vintage Watergate feel about it, the FBI on Monday busted the son of the acting U.S. Attorney in Shreveport, La. and three other people for tampering with the phones of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in her downtown New Orleans office, federal authorities announced on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As expected, President Obama has nominated acting head of the DEA Michele Leonhart to take on the post on a permanent basis. The announcement came in a White House press release issued on Monday. She had been one of four candidates being considered for the job. Ticklethewire.com first reported…
Update Tues: 4:10 p.m.: The U.S Attorney’s Office announced that President Alfonso Portillo, who had been on the run, was arrested this afternoon in the Guatemalan state of Izabal. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said former Guatemala President Alfonso Portillo — who is on the run — had converted the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Manhattan federal trial of a Pakistani scientist accused of trying to shoot U.S. soldiers while being detained in Afghanistan continues to be a reminder of what troubles could lie ahead when suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others stand trial in the Big Apple. The New York Times…
