In what could be bombshell testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, fired FBI director James Comey plans to confirm that President Trump pressured him to stop investigating a top aide’s ties to Russia, CNN reports.
President Trump is defending former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s offer to testify in ongoing probes of Russian hacking of the 2016 election in exchange for legal immunity.
Apple and the FBI will take their fight over a locked iPhone to Congress this week.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James Risen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who pledged to go to jail before revealing a government source, won’t be called to testify in the case of the former CIA officer suspected of being the leak, the Washington Post reports. Since the ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was charged with leaking the information…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Few people were in a better position to see what happened to Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was killed by a Ferguson police officer, than his friend Dorian Johnson. But NBC News points out that the FBI never released Johnson’s witness testimony, despite a pledge to disclose all of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Will reputed mobster James “Whitey” Bulger testify in his own murder and racketeering trial? Some experts believe it may be too hard for Bulger to resist. “He’s already done-in. He’s going to die in prison,” James McDonald, a lawyer for corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, told the Boston Herald. “This is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Somali-born man charged with pulling the trigger on what he thought was a bomb at a Christmas tree event in Portland, Ore., first attracted attention from authorities by discussing martyrdom in email exchanges with Islamist extremists, according to opening testimony Monday in the trial, Reuters reports. Supervisor of the FBI…
