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Son of Mob Associate Refuses to Assist FBI After Getting Shot Three Times
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Salvatore Zottola, the son of a Bonanno crime family associate, ain’t cooperating with the FBI after being shot three times. Zottola was critically wounded in an attempted hit outside his sprawling Bronx home. Law enforcement sources tell the New York Post has denied the FBI access to his houses’ cameras. He was shot…
White House Rebuffs Concerns About Access to Info About FBI Informants
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is transparency best in this case or simply dangerous? Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times reports: The White House has rebuffed concerns among American intelligence and law enforcement officials and ordered that more lawmakers be given access to classified information about an informant the F.B.I. used in 2016 to investigate…
New York Daily News Editorial: GOP ‘Stooped To New Lows To Smear A Public Servant’ Peter Strozk
By New York Daily News Editorial Board Republicans beclowned themselves in a committee hearing Thursday as they desperately tried to discredit FBI agent Peter Strzok. Strzok is the deep-state punching bag of President Trump because, while heading up investigations into both Russian interference in the Trump campaign and Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2016, he…
As Barbs Fly, FBI Agent Peter Strzok Defends His Professionalism
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com During a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill, FBI agent Peter Strzok, whose anti-Trump views have landed him in the hot seat, defended himself. “Let me be clear, unequivocally and under oath: not once in my 26 years of defending my nation did my personal opinions impact any official action I took,”…
Secret Service Issues Guidance For Schools to Prevent Shootings
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In these crazy times, this makes a lot of sense. The U.S. Secret Service is urging U.S. schools to establish teams that can assess threats and prevent shootings such as the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead, USA Today reports. The Secret Service released a…
FBI Agent Who Headed Reagan Assassination Attempt Dies
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent John Nicholas Meisten III, who headed the probe into the attempted assassination of President Reagan, has died. He was 76. Meisten died June 30 at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after an eight-year battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. “My father rarely spoke of…
FBI Agent Peter Strzok to Appear Before Congressional Committee Today
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Controversial agent Peter Strzok, who previously appeared before a closed-door Congressional committee hearing, will appear on Thursday in an open hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, NPR reports. Strzok played a key role in the probes into Hillary Clinton’s private emails and the Russian-election connection. But he got into trouble when…
The DEA Releases Voluminous List of Street Names for Pot
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA has released a list of street slang names for drugs including pot. And as expected, some media outlets are having fun with it. Headlines of stories include this one on the blog, Reason: “The DEA’s List of Cannabis Slang Is Predictably Hilarious.” Here’s the list: 420; A-Bomb (marijuana mixed…