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![FBI’s Christopher Way Defends Mueller While GOP Says Probe Is Tainted](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wray-1.png)
FBI’s Christopher Way Defends Mueller While GOP Says Probe Is Tainted
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com So many politicians, so many opinions. FBI Director Christopher Wray stood by Special Counsel Robert Mueller during a hearing Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, while Republicans asserted the Russian election probe is tainted by anti-Trump bias, Bloomberg New reports. “I do not believe Special Counsel Mueller is on a witch…
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El Chapo Asks Federal Judge to Suppress Statements Prosecutors Claim He Made
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the legendary drug kingpin, has asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to suppress statements prosecutors claim he made during his January 2017 extradition to the United States, ABC News reports. In a court filing Thursday, his defense attorneys said that it is not clear whether Guzman had…
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Tampa Bay Times Editorial: ATF Needs to Get Tougher on Gun Dealers
By Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board Gun dealers who break the law by turning a blind eye to federal licensing rules are as dangerous to society as people who have no right to a possess a firearm in the first place. Yet a recent report shows that the federal agency responsible for policing the legal…
![National Review: Serious Problems at the FBI and Justice Department](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/department-of-justice-logo.gif)
National Review: Serious Problems at the FBI and Justice Department
By Andrew C. McCarthy National Review It has become a refrain among defenders of the FBI and Justice Department that critics are trying to destroy these vital institutions. In point of fact, these agencies are doing yeoman’s work destroying themselves — much to the chagrin of those of us who spent much of our professional…
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Rudy Giuliani Calls FBI Agents and Special Prosecutors ‘Wackadoodles’
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the past year, some people have questioned Rudy Giuliani’s sanity. On Saturday, he was questioning the sanity of the FBI agents and special prosecutors investigating President Trump, saying they should go to the psychiatric ward at Bellevue, The Hill reports. “Instead of investigating President Trump, they should go to Bellevue,”…
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FBI Agent Peter Strzok Volunteers to Testify Without a Subpoena
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now, this could be must-see-TV. Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump messages to a colleague while leading the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and Russia’s involvement in the Trump campaign, says he’s willing to voluntarily testify before the House Judiciary Committee or any other committee, New York Magazine reports….
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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…