By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Is the Justice Department losing its nerve to go after Congress members? The New York Times reports that critics feel that way in wake of the dismissal of some high profile probes into members of Congress like Sen. John Ensign (R-Nevada) and Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.). “They’re gun-shy,” J….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — America profits from the murderous ways of the Mexican cartels when it comes to supplying weapons. Washington Post reporters James V. Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz, in a year long investigation, uncovered the names of the top 12 U.S. gun dealers of guns traced to Mexico in the past two…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A FBI employee in San Francisco is in big trouble as a result of financial statement she made, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The paper reported that Rachelle Thomas-Zuill, 39, who conducted background investigations on FBI agents for security clearances in San Francisco, was charged in court documents in San Jose…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III headed out to California earlier this week, not to let his hair down, but to meet in Silicon Valley with top executives from several companies including Facebook and Google to discuss a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users, the New…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The California initiative to legalize marijuana — a law that would have complicated enforcement for federal agents — went down in defeat on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Times reports that Proposition 19, which would have allowed pot to be sold for recreational use, failed to get the support of the state’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA agent got a little more than she bargained for when she went to the firing range in Los Angeles County. The agent was shot and wounded in the hip after her gun accidentally discharged during a firearms training exercise on Sept. 28 at the DEA-authorized weapons range at the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ooops! The publication WIRED reports that a student in California, the son of an Islamic-American community leader, found a GPS device on his car during an oil change and the FBI came knocking to get it back. The whole thing started last Sunday when Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old American born business…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nine former DEA administrators have fired off a letter to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. asking that he step in if Californians in November vote to legalize marijuana, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that the administrators wrote an Aug. 24 letter to Holder asking that he file a lawsuit challenging…
