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Trump Wants Justice Department to Go After Oakland Mayor For Tipping Off Residents About ICE Raids
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com California in particular has been bumping heads with President Donald Trump over immigration policy. The latest: Trump wants the Department of Justice to investigate Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf for obstruction of justice after she warned constituents of upcoming raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across northern California, Newsweek reports. “I mean,…
Lawmakers Concerned About Allegations of Misconduct in DEA’s Haiti Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is concerned about allegations of misconduct involving the DEA’s Haiti office and the effectiveness of the office’s efforts to fight drugs in that country, the Miami Herald reports. Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland have written to Justice’s…
Inspector General Report on FBI’s Handling of Hillary Clinton Probe Has Been Completed
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Will the report be a bombshell? Probably. A draft of the Justice Department’s Inspector General report addressing a wide-ranging set of allegations that department protocols were flouted when the FBI investigated Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information, has been completed, CNN reports, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. Inspector…
Politico Tries To Provide a Snapshot of Robert Mueller’s FBI Investigators
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Politico’s Josh Gerstein tries to provide a snapshot of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s FBI team, writing that the group has a wide range of skills, with some specializing in financial frauds, others in counterintelligence or corruption, and still others adept at investigating computer hacking and other forms of cybercrime. Politico reports: Mueller’s FBI crew…
Justice Department Announces Improvements to Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department on Tuesday announced improvements to the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program including provisions addressing claims of fatal heart attacks, strokes and vascular ruptures and those injured in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. “At this Department of Justice, we back the blue,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in…
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,…