By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baseball has periodically gotten a black eye from one scandal or another. Here comes another. A federal grand jury in Chicago on Wednesday indicted a former professional baseball player scouting executive for the Chicago White Sox and two former scouts for the team in Latin America for allegedly accepting kickbacks totaling…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As expected, James McJunkin, assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI headquarters, will head up the FBI Washington Field Office. The office is currently being run by acting head John G. Perren. The vacancy popped up after Shawn Henry, the head of the FBI Washington field office, was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– A Justice Department’s Inspector General report released Tuesday sharply criticized ATF’s efforts to crackdown on gun trafficking along the Mexican border, saying the agency is failing to share information within and outside the agency and with Mexico and is focusing far too much on smaller rather than bigger gun…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it won’t file criminal charges over the destruction by CIA workers of 92 videotapes showing harsh interrogation techniques of terrorism suspects. “In January 2008, Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed Assistant United States Attorney John Durham to investigate the destruction by CIA personnel of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — To help battle Mexico’s increasingly violent and dangerous drug cartels, the U.S. military is getting more involved, the Washington Post reports. Mary Beth Sheridan of the Washington Post reports that the U.S. military is sharing information and training soldiers in an expanding effort to help that country battle its…
UPDATE: The LA Times reports that another former U.S. Attorney Thomas O’Brien of Los Angeles wrote a check Tuesday reimbursing the government for more than $900 in overages for hotels. Former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan of Pittsburgh was also identified in the media as one of the five violators cited in the Inspector General…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The words “offensive” and “disgusting” and “criminal” best describe the findings of a Justice Department Inspector General report this week which found that five U.S. Attorneys stuck taxpayers with hefty hotel bills. In other words, they went far beyond the allotted allowance for rooms. And the worst offender, the…
