By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has stuck around longer than many had anticipated. ButAl Kamen and Colby Itkowitz of the Washington Post say there’s speculation that he could call it quits, possibly by the end of the year. Then again, the Post writes, that the shooting of an unarmed teen…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department opened a new front on the war against radicals. The Los Angeles Times reports that Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced plans to identify radicals with U.S. passports. The idea is to identify Americans before they travel abroad. “We have established processes for detecting American extremists who attempt…
By St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board A few numbers indicate a civil rights investigation of the Ferguson Police Department is long overdue. On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Department of Justice will begin such an inquiry. This is an important and positive step forward, but we suspect when he gets into the numbers,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder understands why many black Americans distrust police , he said in Ferguson where protesters have been rallying since an officer shot an unarmed black teen, Fox News reports. Holder met with about 50 community members to talk about law enforcement issues. Holder said his trip was meant to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that more than 40 FBI agent are investigating the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed white teen who was shot by an officer in Ferguson. Holder issued the following statement Monday after President Obama held a briefing. “As I informed the President this afternoon, the full…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two powerful U.S. senators are getting impatient with a long overdue Justice Department report that is supposed to examine the effectiveness of the FBI’s whistleblower protections for bureau employees. The Oregonian reports that Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, expressed frustration that the report has not yet been released, even…
By DEVLIN BARRETT and KIRSTEN GRIND Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—In extracting multibillion-dollar fines from Citigroup Inc. and other big banks, prosecutors say they are trying to deter future corporate wrongdoing by making shareholders angry enough to demand changes. It is a significant shift in tone for the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, which…
