Allan Lengel, editor of ticklethewire.com, is a veteran journalist who has covered law enforcement at major publications including the Washington Post and the Detroit News. He also served as an intern under the late investigative columnist Jack Anderson and was an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Maryland.
We May Never Feel As Safe As We Did on Sept. 10, 2001
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thirteen years ago today, I was walking down Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., on my way to work, about to get on the subway, when I ran into a friend who asked if I had heard about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. I hadn’t. By the time…
Justice Department’s Seizure of Associated Press Phone Records is Disgusting!
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Last time I checked, John Mitchell of the Nixonian era was no longer our Attorney General. But you’d be hard pressed not to feel that the crooked Mitchell was heading up the Justice Department, which we now learn, secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The…
Column: Retired FBI Agent Calls Gun Control Column “Standard Response of Almost Every Single Liberal”
Bob Fanning was an FBI agent for 25 years before he retired. He is a resident of Auroa, Colo. His column is in response to a column by ticklethewire.com editor Allan Lengel enitled: “If Dead Kids Doesn’t Do it What Will? By Bob Fanning For ticklethewire.com I must say that I am seriously disappointed that…
If Dead Kids Doesn’t Do It, What Will?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s nauseating to say the least to see how spineless our Washington lawmakers are, how fearful they are when it comes to standing up to the NRA and the people who insist that universal background checks are too intrusive and assault weapons are necessary to own. The Newtown shootings should have…
Shouldn’t We Do More to Avoid Mass Deaths By Crazed Gunmen?
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit During my visits to Israel, the idea of security was never far off. At the train station, at the bus stop, I went through a metal detector. An armed guard checked through packages and asked if I was carrying a gun. After Sept. 11, 2001, I thought the U.S….