By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On tv, radio and on the Internet, pro and con opinions are rapidly cropping up over the assassination in Yemen of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric. Plenty folks in the U.S. were simply elated. Period. But others are questioning whether the U.S. has stepped over the line by assassinating the…
By PAUL BEDARD and LAUREN FOX U.S. News & World Report Racism and the nation’s white hot political environment that has sparked bitter division in Washington and a political assassination attempt in Arizona have raised concerns about President Obama’s safety on the campaign trail, according to a former top U.S. marshal and retired…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The new acting director of ATF, B. Todd Jones, is no stranger to federal law enforcement. In fact Jones is on his second go around as U.S. Attorney in Minnesota. Jones, who will remain the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota while serving as acting head of ATF, was first appointed to the…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service really does watch out for its protectees like a parent — particularly when it comes to the President. David Nakamura of the Washington Post reports that President Obama wanted to sneak off and make a surprise visit Tuesday evening to the Duck City Bistro in Davenport, Ia., to tip…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Greyhound it ain’t. The U.S. Secret Service has purchased a new $1.1 million bus that President Barack Obama is using for his travels through the Midwest, the Associated Press reported. The AP described the bus as “an impenetrable-looking conveyance the size of a cross-country Greyhound, painted all in black, with dark…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When you’re President and you just happened to drop by a little lunch spot for a bite to eat, the Secret Service leaves little to chance. The website TMZ reports that the Secret Service on Wednesday swept through Ted’s Bulletin restaurant on 8th Street SE on Capitol Hill in D.C. with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David B. Barlow, who has served as General Counsel and Chief Counsel for Judiciary for Senator Michael S. Lee since January, has been nominated by the White House to become the U.S. Attorney for Utah. The announcement on Tuesday comes a days after the FBI announced that David J. Johnson would…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Inch by inch, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is moving closer to staying on the job for two more years. President Obama on Tuesday, in the midst of all the craziness about raising the debt ceiling, signed legislation that enables Mueller to extend his 10-year term two more years. His…
