By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. gets his fair share of grief inside the Beltway, particularly from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. But some of that grief on Friday came from elsewhere: the heartland. Minnesota Public Radio reported that Holder’s speech in Minneapolis at a conference on preventing youth violence…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In an unusual sign of bipartisanship, the top Democrats and Republicans of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence introduced legislation Thursday that would allow FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to extend his 10-year term by two years. Top ranking senators said the bill would provide a…
By Aaron Mehta iwatch news Center for Public Integrity In a rare show of bipartisanship, both Congressional Democrats and Republicans have come out in support of President Barack Obama’s recent request to extend Robert Mueller’s decade-long tenure as FBI director. But for all his accomplishments, Mueller has failed at the same IT management task that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s been anything but smooth sailing for Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. since he took the job on Feb. 3, 2009. In fact, he’s often been a pinata for some key Republicans, who have bashed him at hearings time and again. Still, despite the shuffling of people in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An FBI memo issued in December says investigators can interrogate domestic-terror suspects longer without giving them a Miranda warning, according to a Wall Street Journal report by Evan Perez. The FBI memo said the policy applies to “exceptional cases” where investigators “conclude that continued unwarned interrogation is necessary to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Could big Congressional budget cuts spell doom for agencies like the FBI and DEA? Conservative Republicans on Thursday demanded dramatic cuts, the Washington Post reported. Specifically, members of the conservative Republican Study Committee said the GOP needs to keep a campaign pledge and immediately cut at least $100 billion from non-defense…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former U.S. Attorneys from the Republican party sailed to victory Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Wyoming and Arkansas in an election that appeared to be a resounding referendum on the Obama administration. Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, a former U.S. Attorney under George H.W. Bush, won the governorship in Pennsylvania, the website Main…
Chris Battle is a former official at Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and DEA. He is currently managing partner of the Adfero Group Homeland Security Practice, a Washington public relations firm. By Chris Battle Security DeBrief WASHINGTON — Will John Pistole, the FBI deputy director nominated to lead the TSA, go the way of…
