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Editorial From Valley News: ATF’s Firearms Tracing Hurt by Absurd Law
By Valley News Editorial Board When law enforcement agents seek information on guns found at crime scenes, they call the firearms tracing center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Agents at the tracing center, in West Virginia, then try to establish a chain of custody based on the gun’s serial number, manufacturer, distributor…
Motorist Won’t Be Charged In Traffic Death Involving FBI Agent and Fire Official
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Roberto Garza Palacios, 28, of Germantown, Md., will not be charged in the December 2017 traffic death of an FBI agent Carolos Wolff and a deputy state fire marshal on I-270 in Montgomery County, WTOP radio reports. The decision comes after prosecutors in Montgomery County found there was not enough to charge Roberto…
Dershowitz v. E-FBI Agent: Has Trump Done Something Illegal
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Alan Dershowitz debated Asha Rangappa, a former FBI special agent who is now a lecturer at Yale and analyst with CNN, debated Sunday on ABC’s George Stephanopoulos show about President Donald Trump and the Russian collusion investigation, Real Clear Politics reports. Dershowitz said Trump can only be charged if he grants…
Mueller Wants Manafort to Remain Behind Bars
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert Mueller’s team wants Paul Manafort to remain behind bars. Manafort’s lawyers want him released so he can help better prepare for trial, CNN reports. Prosecutors argue that Manafort’s attempts to contact potential witnesses in his case and influence their testimony are dangerous, the prosecutors argued. Witness tampering “is no less damaging…
Rod Rosenstein Losing His Right Hand Man, Scott Schools
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Another key figure in the Department of Justice is leaving. Scott Schools, the senior-most career attorney and a top aide to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, will step down to take a job in the private sector, the department announced this week, according to Business Insider. Schools is Rosenstein’s main adviser. Before Rosenstein,…
Federal Judge Mostly Rejects Justice Department’s Bid to Block California’s Sanctuary Laws
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Trump administration has been continually fighting the concept of sanctuary cities. But the judiciary has not always been helpful in that battle. The latest: A federal judge on Thursday mostly rejected a bid by the Justice Department to block California’s “sanctuary state” laws, which enact policies friendly to undocumented immigrants,…
Column: Retired FBI Agent Says Attacks on the Bureau Are ‘Unfair, Unwise and Disgusting’
Robert “Bob” Anderson Jr. served for 21 years in the FBI, retiring as executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch. By Robert Anderson For The News Journal For nearly as long as the FBI has existed, its motto has been “Fidelity. Bravery. Integrity.” Those words remind us of the “vital part this…