By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director James Comey is stepping outside his box. Comey, who had been registered as a Republican most of his life, urged “all who believe in this country’s values” to vote for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections, CNN reports. In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Comey called the Republican-held Congress…
Joseph Moreno is a former federal national security prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice and a former staff member to the FBI 9/11 Review Commission. He is now a white collar litigation partner at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. By Joseph Moreno The Hill The House committees opted to haul (Peter) Strzok before them for multiple days…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Things just improved a little for FBI agent Joseph Astarita. A Portland federal judge on Monday threw out two of the five charges against Astarita, who is accused of lying about firing his weapon during a 2016 confrontation with Oregon occupation spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, who was fatally shot, The Oregonian reports….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas says he’s talked to FBI agents who think agent Peter Strzok has gotten away with murder. He tells Fox News: “I heard from more FBI agents saying, ‘If any of us had done a fraction of what Strzok did, we would not only have been…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has reopened the racist killing of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi in 1955, NPR reports. The department says it has received “new information” in the case but did not provide specifics. A new book on the killing, The Blood of Emmett Till, combined…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone could be in big trouble. On Friday, he acknowledged that he’s “probably” the unnamed person mentioned in special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment against 12 Russian military intelligence officers who allegedly sought to influence the 2016 presidential election, USA Today reports. The indictment refers to a U.S. person who “was in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com These have been tough times for the FBI. President Donald Trump fired Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and has continually attacked the integrity of the organization. Then there’s the the texts from FBI agent Peter Strzok. So, this survey comes as little surprise. The bureau’s “climate survey” shows…
