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.
Does Secret Service Need More Rules to Make Sure Agents Don’t Hire Hookers?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It would seem like common sense that if you’re a Secret Service agent and you’re on the road, you shouldn’t booze it up too much and bring prostitutes back to the hotel. Well, obviously some Secret Service agents needed a little more guidance and common sense. So after the Colombia-prostitute scandal,…
Scandals Need to Vanish Quickly
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When it comes to scandals, the best thing is to make them vanish quickly. Waiting for an Inspector General report takes far too long. In the case of the Secret Service-prostitution scandal, so far, so good. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, a veteran of navigating Capitol Hill, has done all the…
Fed Judge Who Circulated Racist Joke About Obama Should Resign
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It would come as no shock to find out some Republican appointees to the federal bench are not President Obama’s biggest fans. Nonetheless, it still comes as a shock that Chief Judge Richard Cebull, who is in his late 60s, who was appointed by George W. Bush to the fed bench…
FBI’s Kids Page: Just Another Example of FBI Outdoing Other Agencies in the Public Relations Game
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I remember years ago sitting at a banquet table at a retirement party for a U.S. Marshal in Detroit when the head of U.S. Customs in Detroit started talking about his school-aged son. With some amusement, and a perhaps a drop of disappointment, he recounted how his son told people his…
Republican Campaign Against Atty. Gen. Holder Ends Up Being Just Another Exercise in Partisan Politics
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Partisan politics inside the Beltway has been around forever. That’s a given. Unfortunately, these days it has reached such ridiculous heights. That being said, if the Republicans had been serious at all about pressuring Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to resign, they would have been a little smarter and tried to…