By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe paints a very unflattering portrait of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in his new book. McCabe writes that Sessions didn’t read intelligence reports, mixed up classified material with what he had seen in newspaper clips and was confused about the structure and purpose of organizations, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert DeProspero who became the Secret Service agent in charge of Reagan’s protection after the 1981 assassination attempt, died last Monday in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 80, the New York Times reports. He suffered from was amyloidosis, a rare disease in which an abnormal protein is deposited in tissues and organs. After…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that he was stunned by the “incredibly lenient sentence” ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort received in Alexandria, Va. last Thursday. “Well, I was really surprised by the sentence he was given,” McCabe told Face the Nation. “I think…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Outrage is voiced about a 47-month prison sentence for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, whose federeal penalty for bank and insurance frauds falls far short of the 19-24 years suggested in sentencing guidelines. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III on Thursday called the guidelines “vindictive” and “way out of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III, a curmudgeonly fellow who’s not shy about speaking his mind, defended his sentencing Thursday of ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. He gave him 48 months, far less than the 20 years Manafort faced under sentencing guidelines. Speaking before a packed courtroom in Alexandria, Va., he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 49-year-old San Jose man is charged with impersonating a DEA agent after he allegedly donned a gold badge and used a Volkswagen Jetta equipped with police lights to stop drivers, including an actual government official, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Authorities arrested Alex E. Taylor last weekend outside his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The wife of former FBI agent Robert Levinson is expressing frustration about efforts to locate her husband and bring him back home. He vanished in 2007 while on an unauthorized mission in Iran for the CIA. Christine Levinson told a House panel Thursday that she holds Iran responsible for the disappearance…
