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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former N.Y. Mayor and Rudy Giuliani, who served as U.S. Attorney from 1983-89, is going around telling everyone who will listen that he fears Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III is trying to set a perjury trap for President Donald Trump. “The reality is we’re not going to sit him down…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former N.Y. Mayor and Rudy Giuliani, who served as U.S. Attorney from 1983-89, is going around telling everyone who will listen that he fears Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III is trying to set a perjury trap for President Donald Trump. “The reality is we’re not going to sit him down…
