By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Secret Service is owed some money. The agency overpaid presidential campaigns an estimated $4 million for plane travel during the 2016 election, a government watchdog says in a new report obtained by CNN. A Government Accountability Office report found that Secret Service officials realized eight months before Election Day…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One of ATF’s jobs is to police gun sales. But something seems to be off, at least according to a story by Ali Watkins of the New York Times, who reports: As they inspect the nation’s gun stores, federal investigators regularly find violations of the law, ranging from minor record-keeping errors…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Donald Trump, continuing on his Twitter tear, on Sunday questioned why the Justice Department or FBI did not notify him during the campaign that Paul Manafort was under investigation, insisting that Manafort would have never been hired if he had known, CNN reports. “As only one of two people left…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Whatever the facts, we have to assume the off-duty FBI agent has some explaining to do. After midnight on Saturday morning, the agent is seen at Mile High Spirits in Denver on a 32-second video obtained by Denver7 dancing in front of appreciative onlookers and performing the flip. Then, a muzzle…
