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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A security guard charged with stealing firearms and gun parts from an ATF storage facility in West Virginia is on the lam. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Trumble issued a bench warrant after Christopher Lee Yates of Martinsburg failed to appear at a preliminary hearing on Wednesday morning in federal court, The…

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The irony of it all is not lost. A former senior DEA who testified before Congress on the government’s efforts to stop the opioid epidemic is now paid to advise one of the largest opioid manufacturers in the country, Purdue Pharma, NBC News reports. Demetra Ashley, the former acting assistant administrator of…

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh warns of the dangers of importing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. “It’s a crisis. Medicines that are fabricated overseas, under unregulated, unsupervised conditions are flooding into the United States,” Freeh tells KXAN TV. “A lot are available on the internet. The ones that are coming into the…

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A search warrant for Michael Cohen’s properties included some pretty interesting orders to get into his cell phone. CNN reports:  In one warrant application for Cohen, an FBI agent requested authorization “to press the fingers (including thumbs) of Cohen to the Touch ID sensors of the Subject Devices, or hold the…

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A search warrant released Tuesday shows that the FBI had been looking into attorney Michael Cohen since July 2017, long before agents raided his Manhattan home and office in April 2018, NBC News reports.   The FBI raid netted more than 4 million electronic and paper files. U.S. District Judge William H….

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com These have not been easy times for the Justice Department, which has seen two attorney generals fired by President Donald Trump. So, Attorney Gen. William Barr has the tall task of establishing stability. Del Quentin Wilber of the Los Angeles Times writes: In his first month in office, Atty. Gen. William Barr has…