By Editorial Board Wall Street Journal President Obama’s interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday has rightly received attention for his defensiveness about Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Syria. But the President made other news that deserves more attention: to wit, his legal advice to the FBI and Justice Department about Hillary Clinton’s email server. The FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who was serving a life sentence, will be paroled on Nov. 21 after serving 30 years, Business Insider reports. As part condition for parole, Pollard will have to remain in the U.S. for five years, the publication reports. The Wall Street Journal reported that the federal parole…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Wall Street Journal reporter David Bird was last seen leaving his home in New Jersey more than a week ago. Now the FBI is getting involved and helping local police, Fox News reports. Bird, 55, disappeared on Jan. 11 after going on a short walk in Morris County. So far, local police…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s investigation into News Corporation last year included an inquiry into claims that the Wall Street Journal’s China bureau bribed local officials for information, the New York Times reports. It’s unclear what – if anything – the FBI found during the investigation, which originally began over a phone-hacking scandal in 2011. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now this is starting to sound like a full-blown, made for the big-screen Washington scandal. Reporters Devlin Barrett, Evan Perez and Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal report that the FBI agent who started the probe into Patraeus scandal, was a friend of Jill Kelley, the Tampa woman who received…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The message from the FBI’s top cyber cop is that the bad guys are winning the cyber war. “We’re not winning,” Shawn Henry told the Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett. Henry, who is about to retire from the FBI, said the current methods of fending off hackers isn’t sustainable. He said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. in connection with the scandal surrounding the controversial ATF program “Operation Fast and Furious.” At a press conference, the president said that Holder “would not have ordered” the ATF program that encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers —…
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…
