By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com The National Rifle Association, which is feared and revered by many on Capitol Hill — and loathed by others — is flexing its muscle in its never ending battle with ATF. The latest: The New York Times reports that the NRA on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging a federal regulation that…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities on Wednesday announced charges against 72 people in connection with an international network dedicated to the sexual abuse of children and the creation and dissemination of child pornography. Authorities said it was the largest prosecution of its kind in the U.S. involving a pedephillia bulletin board. The investigation, lead by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department feels it has good reason to hide info in a Southern California lawsuit filed by Muslims who claim the FBI monitored them because of their religion. The Associated Press reports that Attorney General Eric Holder, in a court filing on Monday, invoked state secrets rules to try and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The war of words is heating up between the Justice Department and key Republican Congressional members over the controversial ATF program known as Operation Fast and Furious. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) this week renewed accusations that the Justice Department is stonewalling a Congressional inquiry into the controversial gun program Operation Fast…
By The Washington Examiner Editorial Page WASHINGTON — Credible media reports have it that Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will get his walking papers this week as a result of his approval of Operation Fast and Furious, aka “Gunwalker.” That’s the program in which ATF purposely allowed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. on Wednesday revisited a controversial subject Congress remedied last year by changing the disproportionate sentences between powdered cocaine and crack cocaine. Lawmakers stopped short of making the law retroactive. Enter Holder. Holder appeared before the U.S. Sentencing Commission and urged that the law be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — For realism, apparently Atty. General Eric Holder Jr. feels the acclaimed HBO show “The Wire” can’t be beat. In fact, Holder, who is a big fan of the show that ended in 2008 after five hit seasons, wants the creators David Simons and Ed Burns to start it up…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One hundred retired FBI agents — including two deputy directors — aren’t giving up their fight to try and exonerate and free convicted ex-Boston agent John J. Connolly Jr., whose relationships with the Boston mob landed him in big trouble. The Los Angeles’s Times Richard Serrano reported that the agents, known…
