Chris Truax is an appellate lawyer in California and sits on the legal advisory board for Republicans for the Rule of Law. He wrote this for InsideSources.com. By Chris Truax For The Last Vegas Sun There is no doubt that the inspector general’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation is going…
A Border Patrol agent who killed a Mexican teenager in a cross-border shooting was charged with second-degree murder.
The FBI’s examination of Hillary Clinton’s unsecured email account is more than a fact-finding mission.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has struggled to hire enough computer scientists to crackdown on cyber security threats because of low pay, according to a Justice Department report. Reuters reports that the FBI has hired just 52 of 134 computer scientists authorized under the Justice Department’s Next Generation Cyber Initiative that began in 2012….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney James Santelle is under investigation on accusations that he misused the government-assigned credit card and violated a law barring federal employees from some political activities, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Department of Justice is leading the investigation, which started more than a year ago following a routine audit….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section has overcome some embarrassing blunders, from caving in to politicians to failing to convict former Sen. Ted Stevens and Sen. John Edwards. In 2010, Jack Smith became the head of the beleaguered section, shouldered with the daunting responsibility of improving the prosecutors’ images as…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Three WikiLeaks journalists are facing charges of espionage and conspiracy after Google turned over their confidential data to the U.S. government, WikiLeaks announced on its site Monday morning. The whistleblower organization now wants an explanation from both Google and the Justice Department. “The US government is claiming universal jurisdiction to apply…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Justice is launching an independent review of Baltimore’s police force following a string of complaints from residents about excessive force and other alleged abuses, the Baltimore Sun reports. But instead of launching a full-scale civil rights investigation, the Department of Justice will work directly with police – an…
