By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Department of Justice has named Robert W. Patterson the new acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration. He replaces acting Director Chuck Rosenberg, who stepped down. Patterson was appointed as DEA’s principal deputy administrator in November 2016, serving as DEA’s chief operating officer, overseeing all of the agency’s enforcement, intelligence,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s no secret that Russia has tried to influence elections around the world for many years. But 2016 appeared to be banner year for the Russians when it came to the U.S. election. FBI Director Christopher Wray, addressing a crowd of about 150 people at the National September 11 Memorial and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge has decided that 100 percent transparency isn’t necessary when it comes to the FBI and the San Bernardino shooting. The FBI does not have to reveal the identity of a vendor that helped it unlock the iPhone of one of the shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack, or the price it…
The father of the gunman who opened fire at a music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night, killing at least 59 people, was a notorious bank robber who escaped from a Texas prison in 1968 and was the subject of a massive manhunt.
A veteran DEA agent accused of stealing money and property during drug investigations has been indicted.
A retired FBI agent has made it his mission to determine who notified the Nazis where Anne Frank was hiding during World War II.
Robert Mueller is nothing if not relentless. Impatient with a fishing expedition that relies on slippery prey to swim into his net, the special counsel now dreams of besieging anyone at the White House who has so much as watched an episode of a television drama about Soviet spies in Washington. Scalps have to be taken because that’s what special counsels, i.e., special prosecutors, do.
The Justice Department is trying to force Facebook to disclose the names of everyone who interacted with an event page about an anti-Donald Trump rally during the presidential inauguration.
