By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After resisting for years, the Justice Department finally sent Congress 64,280 pages of documents involving the botched Fast and Furious investigation on Tuesday, the Washington Times reports. The disclosure prompted Republicans to assert that President Obama was acknowledging he had withheld the documents illegally by claiming executive privilege. The House of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The next U.S. attorney general may be the deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, the New York Post reports, citing “well-placed sources.” The short list of candidates to replace Attorney General Eric Holder is Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-American lawyer. “He’s one of the top candidates. He has all the qualifications…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is seeking new authority to hack into computers and spy on their users, the Guardian reports. The Justice Department is requesting that an obscure regulatory advisory board change the rules of searches and seizures. The two will meet Nov. 5. Civil liberties groups claim the new rules would violate…
By David A. Schulz For Washington Post As Eric Holder reflects on his six years as attorney general, one disturbing aspect of his legacy should give him significant pause. On Holder’s watch, legal protections traditionally afforded to communications between reporters and sources have been torn down, potentially damaging for years to come the media’s ability…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama is faced with a significant challenge and opportunity. The top three jobs at the Justice Department will soon be vacant, and just four of Obama’s 11 choices for assistant attorney generals have been confirmed, CBS News reports. The vacancies leave a power vacuum at an agency that has been…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department accused some Ferguson officials of leaking information to the media in an effort to support Officer Darren Wilson, the Los Angeles Times reports. In recent days, details of the investigation have appeared in local and national news coverage at a time when a grand jury decision is imminent…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA’s decision to set up a fake account on Facebook by stealing a woman’s identity was a “knowing and serious breach” of the social networks’ terms and policies, the company wrote in a letter to the DEA. Gizmodo reports that Facebook will enforce its policy of users creating accounts under…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least 38 suspected Nazi war criminals removed from the U.S. continued receiving their Social Security benefits as part of a strange deal struck with the Justice Department, the Seattle Times reports. One of them is former Auschwitz guard Jakob Denzinger, who fled to Germany and still collects about $1,500 a…
