Allan Lengel, editor of ticklethewire.com, is a veteran journalist who has covered law enforcement at major publications including the Washington Post and the Detroit News. He also served as an intern under the late investigative columnist Jack Anderson and was an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Maryland.
There’s no chance, zero, of conviction in the Senate.
By Allan Lengel I was in Israel in November when two bombs went off at bus stops in Jerusalem, several miles from where I was renting an apartment for the month. Two people died and about 20 were injured. I happened to be in Haifa, about two hours away, when it happened. When I returned…
By Allan Lengel Some thought the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012 would be the horrific event that would lead to true gun-law reform. Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza used his mother’s Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle to kill 26 people, 20 of them children no older than 8. Earlier in the day, he murdered…
By Allan Lengel To NBC News and its sister station MSNBC, being truthful doesn’t always matter. And that’s the truth. Starting with my high school journalism teacher Robert Jackson, I learned that the truth in journalism was sacred. Intentionally straying from it had grave consequences. That has held true through my many years in journalism,…
Chuckie O’Brien in Florida in 2018. (Family photo) By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s time for the feds to give Chuckie O’Brien a letter of clearance that says he’s no longer a suspect in Jimmy Hoffa’s murder. Why? Because the evidence is overwhelming. For nearly 45 years, a cloud has hung over O’Brien, Hoffa’s confidante, “surrogate…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office.
The writer, a ticklethewire.com columnist, was an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office in 2006. He has a degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law and is author of the book, “FBI Case Files Michigan: Tales of a G-Man.” By Greg Stejskal This is a…
The writer, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, was an FBI agent for 31 years. He retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office in 2006. He has a law degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law. By Greg Stejskal When J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972, he had been director of…
It ended up being financial-related crimes that nailed them both.
The writer, an FBI agent for 31 years, retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office in 2006. He is the author of “FBI Case Files Michigan: Tales of a G-Man.” By Greg Stejskal When I first heard that the Department of Justice and the FBI were being criticized because they were “weaponized,”…
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal Like the mountain in one of Aesop’s fables, Special Counsel John Durham labored mightily and brought forth a mouse. In May, after a four-year investigation, Durham delivered his final report…
With the advent of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, I have come to realize some in the FBI are influenced by their political beliefs.
In February 2021, following former president Trump’s acquittal by the Senate on the impeachment charges emanating from the January 6th insurrection, I wrote a column about a possible theory of criminal prosecution of Trump on the charge of inciting insurrection. The column predates the Jan. 6 Committee revelations which would seem to bolster the case for criminal…
In December 2020, I wrote a column about what I believed was a con job. I thought then-President Donald Trump and others were pushing a falsehood that the election was rigged and that Trump actually won. There was no evidence that the election was rigged or stolen and none has been found in the two…
Last July I wrote a column about the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson before the Jan. 6 Committee. I thought her testimony was consistent and credible. We now know based on recently released transcripts that Hutchinson was encouraged by an attorney hired by Trump loyalists to provide as little information as possible to the committee and to…
By Greg Stejskal A couple of weeks ago my wife and I were in northern lower Michigan for a book talk and signing in Suttons Bay. Northern Michigan tends to be more Republican than the southern part of the state – not something I thought much about in the past. But on this trip, before…
