By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A piece in Salon Magazine, an online publication, is titled: “Here’s what’s buried beneath that FBI report: How rogue agents sabotaged the Clinton campaign.” The piece suggests that FBI agents in the New York office helped Rudy Giuliani, who was campaigning for Donald Trump in 2016, by leaking information. Heather Digby…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com So many politicians, so many opinions. FBI Director Christopher Wray stood by Special Counsel Robert Mueller during a hearing Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, while Republicans asserted the Russian election probe is tainted by anti-Trump bias, Bloomberg New reports. “I do not believe Special Counsel Mueller is on a witch…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the legendary drug kingpin, has asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to suppress statements prosecutors claim he made during his January 2017 extradition to the United States, ABC News reports. In a court filing Thursday, his defense attorneys said that it is not clear whether Guzman had…
By Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board Gun dealers who break the law by turning a blind eye to federal licensing rules are as dangerous to society as people who have no right to a possess a firearm in the first place. Yet a recent report shows that the federal agency responsible for policing the legal…
By Andrew C. McCarthy National Review It has become a refrain among defenders of the FBI and Justice Department that critics are trying to destroy these vital institutions. In point of fact, these agencies are doing yeoman’s work destroying themselves — much to the chagrin of those of us who spent much of our professional…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the past year, some people have questioned Rudy Giuliani’s sanity. On Saturday, he was questioning the sanity of the FBI agents and special prosecutors investigating President Trump, saying they should go to the psychiatric ward at Bellevue, The Hill reports. “Instead of investigating President Trump, they should go to Bellevue,”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now, this could be must-see-TV. Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump messages to a colleague while leading the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and Russia’s involvement in the Trump campaign, says he’s willing to voluntarily testify before the House Judiciary Committee or any other committee, New York Magazine reports….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s more entertaining TV coming your way. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray are set to go before senators Monday to testify about the inspector general’s report that concluded that the FBI violated long-standing department guidelines and mishandled the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016, NPR…
