By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to figure out if ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and other officials have assets in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reports. Agents, along with a new Justice Department team, are looking for “proceeds of theft by foreign officials,” the Journal reported. The paper reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ronald Kessler of Newmax.com writes that Secret Service agents on President Reagan’s detail say the 40th president “was sharp until several years after he left the presidency”, contrary to what son Ron wrote in his latest book. “We had a hundred twenty agents on his detail, and he seemed to remember…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — SECRETARY OF STATE Hillary Rodham Clinton caused a stir last week by suggesting that Mexico’s drug-trafficking gangs were beginning to resemble an insurgency, like that which has plagued Colombia. She’s right in the sense that the cartels have come to effectively control parts of the country, where…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON— J. Edgar Hoover for president? Well, Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty, apparently thought it was a good idea in the 1950s, according to an essay Hoover wrote that was included in the newly released FBI files on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. In a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who toiled in the eye of the political hurricane during the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal that rocked Washington, will become the new president of Baylor University in Texas, the Associated Press reported. Starr has been dean of Pepperdine University Law School in Malibu, Calif. The AP…
