By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA is concerned about dirty money. More specifically, the agency is concerned that drug-laced cash seized in narcotics busts could seriously injure—even kill—its agents, the Daily Beast reports. So, the DEA has has begun reaching out to potential industry partners about decontaminating confiscated currency, the website reports. “Some of the substances on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fired FBI Director James Comey, in Ireland to promote his book, “A Higher Loyalty,’ said in Dublin he was ashamed. “I am ashamed of the way my country has acted with respect of those children,” Comey said Friday in Dublin, according to the Irish Times. “I am disgusted, I am horrified, I…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has long complained about the difficulties cracking encrypted cell phones. Rhys Dipshan of Slate reports that the agency has spent a fair amount of money hiring private hackers: Most of the time, cracking encrypted devices comes down to finding and leveraging zero-day vulnerabilities—unknown exploitable weaknesses in software or hardware….
Chris Truax is an appellate lawyer in California and sits on the legal advisory board for Republicans for the Rule of Law. He wrote this for InsideSources.com. By Chris Truax For The Last Vegas Sun There is no doubt that the inspector general’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation is going…
