By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Twelve Russian nationals were charged Friday with hacking Democrats to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, prompting some top Democrats to urge President Donald Trump to cancel his meeting with Vladimir Putin. The indictment, which came from the Robert Mueller probe, says that the defendants are members of the GRU, a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Salvatore Zottola, the son of a Bonanno crime family associate, ain’t cooperating with the FBI after being shot three times. Zottola was critically wounded in an attempted hit outside his sprawling Bronx home. Law enforcement sources tell the New York Post has denied the FBI access to his houses’ cameras. He was shot…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is transparency best in this case or simply dangerous? Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times reports: The White House has rebuffed concerns among American intelligence and law enforcement officials and ordered that more lawmakers be given access to classified information about an informant the F.B.I. used in 2016 to investigate…
By New York Daily News Editorial Board Republicans beclowned themselves in a committee hearing Thursday as they desperately tried to discredit FBI agent Peter Strzok. Strzok is the deep-state punching bag of President Trump because, while heading up investigations into both Russian interference in the Trump campaign and Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2016, he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com During a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill, FBI agent Peter Strzok, whose anti-Trump views have landed him in the hot seat, defended himself. “Let me be clear, unequivocally and under oath: not once in my 26 years of defending my nation did my personal opinions impact any official action I took,”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In these crazy times, this makes a lot of sense. The U.S. Secret Service is urging U.S. schools to establish teams that can assess threats and prevent shootings such as the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead, USA Today reports. The Secret Service released a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent John Nicholas Meisten III, who headed the probe into the attempted assassination of President Reagan, has died. He was 76. Meisten died June 30 at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after an eight-year battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. “My father rarely spoke of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Controversial agent Peter Strzok, who previously appeared before a closed-door Congressional committee hearing, will appear on Thursday in an open hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, NPR reports. Strzok played a key role in the probes into Hillary Clinton’s private emails and the Russian-election connection. But he got into trouble when…
