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.
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…
Blago’s Biggest Crime: He Thought He Was Smarter Than All of Us
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ok, so I wouldn’t have given ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich 14 years in prison for his infinite arrogance and his corrupt ways. Ten or 12 would have sufficed. That being said, I can’t say he didn’t deserve getting the toughest sentence of any crooked Illinois governor. He never stopped yapping and…
Atty. Gen. Holder Needs to Step Up and Take Responsibility for ATF’s Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. is an honorable man. So I believe him when he tells Congress he didn’t know about ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious until the controversy exploded in 2011. The problem is that he needs to take responsibility for it. Period. He’s the top dog. People…