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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department can feel proud that an appeals court Thursday essentially upheld its right to screw the families whose relatives were allegedly murdered by Boston gangster James J. “Whitey’’ Bulger. Bulger was working as an FBI informant and running wild, and a Boston federal judge back in…
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…
