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Judge Refuses to Toss Special Counsel Case Against Paul Manafort
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A D.C. federal judge has given special counsel Robert Mueller the green light to continue the case against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Business Insider reports. U.S. District Judge Amy Jackson declined on Tuesday to toss the charges against Manafort, who faces two indictments from the special counsel….
Opinion Piece: DEA Has No Clue What It’s Talking About When it Comes to Pot and Opioids
Paul Armentano is the deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He is the co-author of the book, Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? and the author of the book, The Citizen’s Guide to State-By-State Marijuana Laws. This piece appears in The Hill. By Paul…
Ex-CIA Employee Suspected of Leaking Documents to WikiLeaks Faces Sexual-Related Charges
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There may be a lot questions surrounding 30-year-old former CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte, but one thing is certain: This man needs lawyers. First, the federal government suspects he gave a massive trove of agency documents to WikiLeaks about the CIA’s hacking operations, though he has yet to be charged with that,…
Ex-Border Patrol Agent Gets 7 1/2 Years For Taking Bribe
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-Border Patrol agent was sentenced Monday in Tucson to 7.5 years in federal prison for accepting bribes and acting as a scout for drug smugglers near Marana. Alberto M. Michel pleaded guilty earlier this year to taking $12,000 in exchange for providing counter-surveillance for marijuana smugglers while on duty in…
Does Robert Mueller Have A Conflict of Interest With The Russian Probe and an Oligarch?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Life is complicated. In 2009, when Robert S. Mueller III ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. John Solomon writes in…
Electronic Frontier Foundation Wants to Know About the 7,800 Phones the FBI Says It Can’t Hack
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Electronic Frontier Foundation is curious about the FBI’s claim that it had nearly 7,800 phones it couldn’t hack into while investigating crimes in 2017. So, the foundation has submitted a FOIA request to the FBI, as well as the Offices of the Inspector General and Information Policy at DOJ, asking…
Mexican Police Commander Pleads No Contest to Leaking Sensitive DEA Information to Drug Cartel Members
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a scenario that has been played out countless times over the years. Jason McGahan of the Daily Beast reports: A top-ranking Mexican police commander who was the point person for intelligence sharing between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement has pleaded “no contest” in Chicago federal court to charges he leaked…
Theft Trial for ATF Senior Agent in Alabama is Delayed
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Trial in Birmingham, Ala., for senior ATF agent Jay Bagwell, who is charged with theft, has been delayed as a result of back surgery, AL.com reports. The “prescribed pain medication renders the defendant unable to effectively participate in the defense of his case,” U.S. Chief Judge Karon O Bowdre wrote. The trial…