By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On Cyber Monday, the big Internet shopping day, the Justice Department announced it had shut down 150 domain names of websites that were peddling counterfeit goods that included professional sports jerseys, golf equipment, DVD sets, footwear, handbags and sunglasses. “Through this operation we are aggressively targeting those who are selling counterfeit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sen. Chuck Grassley is questioning the commitment of Attorney Gen. Eric Holder and his Deputy Attorney General James Cole to FBI whistleblowers. In a press released issued Monday, Grassley said one FBI whistleblower case “continues to languish for nine years and a second case sits in limbo for more than four…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s a pack-your-toothbrush kind of week for Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr., who plans to travel to the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Port of Spain and Trinidad and Tobago to meet with local leaders and law enforcement counterparts and to attend the Organization of American States Conference. In the Dominican Republic, Holder…
By Allan Lengel for Salon.com While an apologetic Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. went before a Senate committee this week to talk about a failed gun-walking program, the National Rifle Association was gearing up its campaign to get Holder fired. In a new, slick 1 minute and 55 second television ad flush with with Fox…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In more sobering news… The family of Brian Terry, the border agent killed last year near the Arizona border, issued a statement on Wednesday in response to US Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The message: Holder needs to “take responsibility” for their son’s death, reports Arizona…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com One lucky FBI agent has won a round trip visit to the Balkan nation of Bulgaria. Announced on Tuesday during Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov’s U.S. visit, an FBI special agent will be sent to Bulgaria to assist the nation’s cyber crime fighting, reports the Sofia News Agency. The agent will…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than 30 Republican Congress members have called for the firing of Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. and now the NRA is running an advertising asking for the same. The NRA, which has historically been at odds with ATF, says in its ad that Holder lied about what he knew about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr., whose likely to get a grilling from Republicans over ATF’s Operation Fast Furious when he appears Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, got some welcome backing on Thursday. Politico reports that the National Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest group of sworn law enforcement officers,…
