By Allan Lengel In 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Christopher Wray, a registered Republican, to be assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department’s criminal division. Then in 2017, after firing FBI Director James Comey, President Donald Trump turned to Wray to replace Comey. So, Wray pushed back Wednesday when he appeared before…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The political battle is heating up. The House Judiciary Committee voted 24-16 Wednesday to recommend the House hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Robert S. Mueller III’s unredacted report, the New York Times reports. The vote came hours after President Trump asserted…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now, this could be must-see-TV. Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump messages to a colleague while leading the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and Russia’s involvement in the Trump campaign, says he’s willing to voluntarily testify before the House Judiciary Committee or any other committee, New York Magazine reports….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The forces against Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. seem to be building some momentum — at least in the Republican ranks. The latest: Freshman Rep. Raúl Labrador(R-Idaho)on Thursday demanded that Holder resign, claiming he was lying when he testified before Congress about when he learned of ATF’s troubled Operation Fast and Furious….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, the wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi.) , chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is trying to pull out all the stops to avoid reporting to prison to begin serving her 37 month sentence for bribery. The Detroit News reports that she has filed a…
