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IG Horowitz and FBI Director Wray Set to Testify on the Hill on Monday
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s more entertaining TV coming your way. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray are set to go before senators Monday to testify about the inspector general’s report that concluded that the FBI violated long-standing department guidelines and mishandled the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016, NPR…
Tweeting Trump Rips FBI and Comey Following Release of IG Report
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It didn’t take long for President Donald Trump to let the tweets fly following the release of Inspector General’s report. FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who headed the Clinton & Russia investigations, texted to his lover Lisa Page, in the IG Report, that “we’ll stop” candidate Trump from becoming President. Doesn’t get…
FBI Agent Would Like to Meet With Denver Bar Customer He Accidentally Shot
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI agent who accidentally shot and wounded a customer at a Denver bar while dancing, wants to meet the victim, Fox News reports. Agent Chase Bishop, who faces a charge of second-degree assault charge, wants to sit down with the victim when appropriate, his attorney David Goddard says. Goddard called…
Jonathan Turley: Fired FBI Director James Comey Can’t Hide the Damage He Caused the FBI
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. By Jonathan Turley For The Hill James Comey once described his position in the Clinton investigation as being the victim of a “500-year flood.” The point of the analogy was that he was unwittingly carried away by events rather than directly causing…
FBI Director Christopher Wray Writes: ‘IG’s Report Makes Clear That We Have Some Work To Do’
Christopher Wray has been the director of the FBI since August 2017. By Christopher Wray For USA Today There has been no shortage of commentary and debate about the FBI lately, and the new report from the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General is a welcome contribution from an independent voice on events of the 2016 election season….
Lengel: The FBI Will Survive IG Horowitz’s Report
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dramatic headlines in the media may suggest otherwise, but truth be told, the long-awaited report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz contains few surprises. Yes, we already knew ex-FBI Director James Comey stepped over the line at his press conference about not charging Hillary Clinton, and yes, we already knew he violated…
Eric Starkman: Reporters’ Conflicts of Interest, Romance And All
Eric Starkman is free-lance writer living in Los Angeles. By Eric Starkman Reading about Ali Watkins, the New York Times reporter romantically involved with the former Senate aide arrested for lying to the FBI about his contacts with reporters, I wasn’t alone recalling the immortal words of the newspaper’s legendary editor Abe Rosenthal: “I don’t…