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Trump Lashes Out at FBI and Justice Department on Fox & Friends
President Trump continues to cast doubt that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, even as his intelligence chiefs unanimously warned a Senate committee on Tuesday that the Kremlin was ramping up its covert campaign to undermine the mid-term elections in July.
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Border Patrol Agent Sentenced to 70 Months in Prison for Helping Smuggle Drugs
A Border Patrol agent who helped smuggle what he thought were drugs along the U.S.-Mexican border, was sentenced to 70 months in prison Wednesday.
![Former Watergate Attorney: Trump Invoking Fifth Amendment Would Be ‘Political Suicide’](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-04-26-at-8.20.22-AM.png)
Former Watergate Attorney: Trump Invoking Fifth Amendment Would Be ‘Political Suicide’
A former Watergate prosecutor warned that President Trump would commit “political suicide” if he invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the lawsuit filed by pornographic film star Stormy Daniels.
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Cohen to Invoke Fifth Amendment in Lawsuit by Stormy Daniels
Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney of President Trump, plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right to avoid testifying in a lawsuit filed against the president by pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels.
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Defense in Gov. Greitens Case Spending Considerable Time Attacking Ex-FBI Agent
Vince Wade is a former investigative TV reporter in Detroit and author and documentary producer in the Los Angeles area. His book, “Prisoner of War: The Story of White Boy Rick and the War on Drugs,” will be released on June 25. This column is being reposted with permission. By Vince Wade In the Gov….
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Lawyers Claim Feds Case Against FBI Agent in Oregon Shooting Lacks Concrete Evidence and Is Based on Flimsy Expert Witnesses
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorneys for FBI Agent Joseph Astarita, who is charged with repeatedly lying to state and federal investigators about firing two shots at leading Oregon standoff protester Robert “LeVoy” Tinicum’s truck in 2016, claim the government has no concrete evidence and instead is relying on questionable “so-called experts.” The attorneys are asking…
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DEA Agent Accused of Pooping, Spreading Feces on Agent’s Hotel Door
The DEA is investigating a wild night in the Netherlands, where an intoxicated agent is accused of stripping naked, pooping in front of another agent’s door and then scooping up the excrement and smearing in on the door and its handle.
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Comey Assails FBI’s Treatment of Martin Luther King But Ignores Racial Profiling Under His Leadership
When James Comey became the FBI director in 2013, he placed atop his desk a framed copy of the letter that authorized the surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. as a reminder of the bureau’s “shameful.”