By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With acting ATF Director B. Todd Jones in place, and the new fiscal year beginning, rumors are swirling about that ATF is soon expected to make a lot of changes in top management, which will result in a serious round of musical chairs. One rumor circulating within ATF is that Thomas…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The rumor mill has been working over time involving the controversy between FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Lee Baca is fuming that the FBI didn’t tell him about its investigation into inmate abuse, or the fact that the FBI, in an undercover sting, paid a sheriff’s deputy about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No one can defend a convicted cop killer. That’s easy to say. But they can if there’s a question as to whether the person killed the cop, and if the state has decided to execute that person with so much evidence in doubt. At 11:08 p.m. Wednesday night, the state of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I still remember walking down Connecticut Avenue in Washington, headed to the subway, when I ran into a friend who told me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. About 20 minutes later, when I got off the subway downtown at the Farragut North stop, I bumped into…
Paul Lindsay, the hard-digging ex-Detroit FBI agent who became a prolific author, and wrote seven novels — the last two of which were N.Y. Times best sellers — died peacefully Thursday night at a Boston hospital of pneumonia with his family by his side. He had been battling leukemia. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Paul Lindsay…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I’m all for the right to bear arms. The constitution says we can. That being said, guns and semi-automatic rifles are a dangerous enough commodity — like prescription morphine and oxycodone — that they need to be regulated — particularly when they end up in the hands of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a story that has no good ending. An FBI agent as been has been indicted by a D.C. suburban county grand jury in connection with a fatal drunk driving crash that killed an 18-year-old on Feb. 7 in Brandywine, Md., the Washington Examiner reported. Washington Examiner reporter Emily Babay reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After talking to some folks and watching the latest Congressional hearings on ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious, I’m beginning to think the Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley aren’t going to find what they’re looking for — that is: Who at the Justice Department gave the Ok for the operation…
