By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 49-year-old Texas inmate pleaded guilty Friday to hiring a hitman — who ended up being an undercover ATF agent — to kill a state judge. Jeffrey Dwayne Harrison pleaded guilty in Lubbock, Tex., to attempted murder-for-hire of Judge Stephen Ellis, 35th Judicial District Court Judge of Brown County, Tex., the…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — “EVERYBODY WOULD be winging it.” That is how one law enforcement official described the likely Justice Department response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The remark was included in a critical report by the department’s inspector general, which concluded that the department “is not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The good news is that the FBI “has taken appropriate steps to prepare to respond to a potential” weapons of mass destruction (WMD) attack, according to a just released Justice Department’s Inspector General report. Now the bad news: “We concluded that the Department of Justice as a whole and…
Read Story on CNN that Includes Info on Whistleblower and ATF Official Edgar Domenech
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF is investigating the theft of nearly two dozen weapons from the shooting range of a suburban Chicago police department, the Chicago Tribune is reporting. The weapons stolen from the Harvey Police Department included handguns and MP5 and AR-15 assault weapons, the Trib reported. They were reported stolen from a trailer…
By Jeff Stein SpyTalk WASHINGTON — Poor ATF: It don’t get no respect. NYPD’s Ray Kelly, Attorney General Holder and DHS honcho Janet Napolitano all heaped praise on themselves and each other for their fabulous work in the Times Square bomb case. But the ATF? Nada. Out of sight, out of mind, evidently, overlooked like…
