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Ex-FBI Assistant Director: Trump Did Right Thing By Calling For Release of Mueller Report
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chris E. Swecker, who retired from the FBI as an assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division, and currently practices law in North Carolina, endorses the idea of publicly releasing the Mueller report. In a guest column on Fox News’ website, Swecker writes: President Trump did the right thing Saturday by…
Ex-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Thinks the Mueller Probe Isn’t Ready to Conclude
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Speculation about when the Mueller probe will come to an end has heated up. It could be any time now, people inside the Beltway say. But former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of New York sees it differently. On Sunday, Bharara said it doesn’t appear that special counsel Robert Mueller is finishing up his probe….
Authorities Search for ‘Substantial’ Number of Firearms Stolen From ATF Facility in West Virginia
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities are searching for a “substantial” number of firearms and gun parts stolen from a government disposal facility in Martinsburg, W.Va., USA Today reports. Christopher Yates, a security contractor assigned to the ATF repository in West Virginia, has been charged in connection with the missing weapons and parts. Yates has…
Trump Claims Sen. John McCain Gave Controversial Dossier to FBI & Media to Sink His Campaign
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Donald Trump continues to stir up controversy via Twitter. On Sunday, he accused the late Sen. John McCain in a tweet of working with the Democrats during the 2016 presidential election by giving the Christopher Steele dossier to the FBI and media to help sink his campaign, the Washington Times reports. Several reports say McCain didn’t hand…
Ex-FBI Agent Peter Strzok Told Congress That Election Meddling Was Far More Important Than Hillary Email Scandal
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Controversial ex-FBI official Peter Strzok told Congress during a closed-door interview last June that “a hostile foreign power . . . seeking to clandestinely influence our presidential election” was a far graver threat than the charge that Clinton was mishandling classified information, the Washington Post reports. A transcript of the interview was released…
Authorities Turn Watchful Eye to Gene Gotti in Murder of Frank “Franky Boy” Cali in Staten Island
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It had been decades since a Mafia boss was hit in New York. But on Wednesday, Frank (Franky Boy) Cali, the alleged Gambino crime boss, was shot down in front of his Staten Island home. Now, authorities are turning a watchful eye to just-out-of-jail Gene Gotti, brother of the late John Gotti,…
Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Says Bias Did Not Impact Trump-Hillary Probes
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said last year on Capitol Hill that any bias in the FBI against Donald Trump did not impact the bureau’s investigations of the Trump campaign’s suspected Russia ties and of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Her comments before theHouse Judiciary and Oversight committees were included in a transcript…