By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal agents and prosecutors know too well the frustration of investigating something for a long long time, only to come up empty handed. Well, that’s just what happened in Lubbock, Tex. A nearly four-year-long FBI investigation of the city and its former healthcare administrator has resulted in no charges, according to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Donald Trump wasn’t the only person serving up an endorsement this week for presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. Romney announced that Asa Hutchinson, the former administrator for DEA, is endorsing him, according to the website Politicalnews.me. “I’m proud to earn Asa’s endorsement,” said Mitt Romney, according to the website. “Asa is a…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on Thursday accused Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican committee chair, of an “election year witch hunt” in going after the Attorney General and the Justice Department during a Congressional probe into the flawed Operation Fast and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York city councilman is recanting comments he made over the weekend critical of the FBI, reports the New York Post City Councilman Peter Koo (D-Queens) likened an FBI investigation looking into the campaign finances of his friend Comptroller John Liu to “political entrapment” on a radio show over the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Montana state legislator claims the DEA is investigating her because of her support of medical marijuana laws. Diane Sands, a Democratic in the State House, told the Missoulian that a possible witness in a DEA investigation into medical marijuana businesses was asked if she was part of a conspiracy to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man dubbed the “Underwear Bomber”, who tried blowing up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas day in 2009, may have contributed more to this country than we think. The Associated Press reports that the U.S. no fly list for suspected terrorists has more than doubled in the past year,…
By Kevin Johnson USA TODAY The chairman of the House’s chief investigative committee today threatened Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress if he failed to provide additional documents in the panel’s ongoing inquiry into allegations that federal agents allowed hundreds of weapons to flow to Mexico and into the hands of drug cartel…
