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Ex-Secret Service Agent Answers Question: Is Barack Obama A Nice Guy?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com While working a detail, Secret Service agents act professionally. But internally, they have opinions of the people they protect. Jason Wells, a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, knows a thing or two about the Obamas. He is a former U.S. Secret Service agent who worked a detail protecting the Obama…
Ex-ATF Agent Jay Dobyns Talks About the Dangers of Biker Gangs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired ATF Agent Jay Dobyns spoke about his days as an agent, infiltrating the Hells Angels and the personal challenges of undercover work at a police seminar in El Paso this week, the El Paso Times reports. “They’re very dangerous men who live a very dangerous lifestyle that’s built on violence. Below is…
Salon: What’s Buried in IG Report, How Rogue FBI Agents Helped Undermine Clinton Campaign
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A piece in Salon Magazine, an online publication, is titled: “Here’s what’s buried beneath that FBI report: How rogue agents sabotaged the Clinton campaign.” The piece suggests that FBI agents in the New York office helped Rudy Giuliani, who was campaigning for Donald Trump in 2016, by leaking information. Heather Digby…
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…
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…
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
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…
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,”…