By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If TV ratings is the real goal, President Donald Trump is killing it. Trump indicated Thursday he’s considering pardoning for TV personality Martha Stewart and commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is serving 14 years for public corruption. Trump also said Thursday that he would offer a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A new uniformed U.S. Secret Service police officer didn’t recognize CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta. So, when he didn’t have his ID to get back in the White House she sent him packing, according to the website Twitchy, which posted the video below VIDEO: CNN’s Jim Acosta having a…
Josh Campbell is a CNN Law Enforcement Analyst, providing insight on crime, justice, and national security issues. He previously served as a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI. Follow him on Twitter. By Josh Campbell CNN Following last week’s unfounded claim from the White House that the FBI illegally spied on the Trump campaign for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes FBI work can be pretty tedious. The agency is piecing together shredded documents found in its raid of Michael Cohen’s home and office while investigating President Trump’s personal attorney for suspected financial crimes, The Hill reports. CNN reports that there is not a large amount of shredded material. The federal government has so…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The intrigue from the Robert Mueller probe continues to intrigue. The latest comes from a report in the New York Times which says former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing of his boss, Director…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert Savage III, the former head of the Los Angeles U.S. Secret Service division, has been named chief executive officer of the 360 Group International Inc., a Beverly Hills security company. Savage served 25 years in the Secret Service. He began his career with Secret Service in 1993 in the Washington…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David J. LeValley, head of the Atlanta FBI, died Saturday from complications related to the 9/11 attack, the FBI said Saturday. In a statement, the FBI said: Mr. LeValley entered on duty as a special agent with the FBI in 1996 and was assigned to the New York Division. He was called…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com While President Donald Trump promotes “Spygate” as the biggest scandal since Watergate, senior House Republican Trey Gowdy said the use of an FBI informant to gather information from Trump advisers during the 2016 presidential campaign was justified. Gowdy, who was part of a highly classified Justice Department briefing last week, said…
