By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI, Director Christopher Wray addressed a gathering of former and current federal agents near Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, saying the bureau must learn lessons from the critical Inspector General report, ABC News reports. “We’re going to make sure that even though the report didn’t find bias actually impacted the…
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. By Jonathan Turley For The Hill James Comey once described his position in the Clinton investigation as being the victim of a “500-year flood.” The point of the analogy was that he was unwittingly carried away by events rather than directly causing…
Christopher Wray has been the director of the FBI since August 2017. By Christopher Wray For USA Today There has been no shortage of commentary and debate about the FBI lately, and the new report from the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General is a welcome contribution from an independent voice on events of the 2016 election season….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney General Jeff Sessions hints that there could be more firings after the release of a Justice Department inspector general report on missteps during ex-FBI Director James Comey’s era, The Hill reports. Sessions told The Hill’s new morning show “Rising” that the IG report will better help the agency improve from past mistakes that…
By William La Jeunesse Fox News Dozens of senior-level U.S. government officials turned a blind eye to public safety as they pursued an ill-conceived and poorly managed investigation into gun trafficking in Mexico, according to a long-awaited inspector general’s report on Operation Fast and Furious. Portions of the Justice Department IG report, which has not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacks coordination and is not doing nearly enough to crack down on the fraud involved in the distribution and sales of tobacco that amounts to more $5 billion in lost U.S. taxes a year and is sometimes linked to terrorism…
