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 Heading up a major law enforcement agency like the Justice Department or FBI is never easy. It’s a major headache. There’s always a crisis around the corner. Keeping your job and doing it with integrity has only been more challenging under the Trump administration. Don’t count on Jeff Sessions sticking around…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, a former U.S. Attorney from Baltimore, is the canary in the coal mine for the Justice Department. In very short time, in that role, he’s already gasping for breath, having been put smack in the middle of the firing of FBI Director James Comey. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Acting Attorney General Sally Yates wasn’t going to be around very long at the Justice Department considering she was a holdover from the Obama administration. Nonetheless, she should be commended for standing up to President Donald Trump, who implemented an executive order that was poorly thought out and executed. Hopefully she…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The other day, a commentator on MSNBC described FBI Director James Comey as having a Boy Scout image. That’s a good thing for an FBI director. The problem is that Comey appears to have become a prisoner of that image, and has placed more importance on his image and the FBI’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ok, so it’s an election year where both sides in the presidential race have been endlessly accusing one another of lying. Perhaps, having been out of the game for a while, former Congressman Gary Condit, a blue dog Democrat from California, feels left out and has the itch to lie, too….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Imagine if you will, if former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was able to pay the Justice Department hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of going to prison for 28 years. Imagine if Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, accused of having a hand in 19 murders, was able to pay a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In March of 1997, after being on strike at the Detroit News for 19 months, I headed off to D.C. to work for the Washington Post. Sure, D.C. was home to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but to me, just importantly, it was home to the legendary Mayor Marion Barry,…
