By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fired FBI director James Comey seems to be on a campaign to protect his legacy. On Saturday, he spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival, defending his controversial actions before the 2016 presidential election and likening President Donald Trump to a forest fire that must be “contained,” reports Scott Condon of the…
Update: 4:06 p.m. Tuesday — Well it turns out that FBI agent Peter Strozk will be testifying after all before the joint House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committee’s public hearing on July 10. His attorney said he wasn’t going to testify. But the committee issued a subpoena, and so, he’ll be there. By…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The musical chairs continues at the DEA. Uttam Dhillon, deputy White House counsel, is expected to be named the next interim head of the DEA, replacing Robert W. Patterson, who announced last month he was leaving the agency after a 30-year DEA career, the Washington Post reports. The agency has a long…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s fix-it guy, may not be as loyal to Trump as he originally said. In the first in-depth interview since the FBI raided his office and homes in April, Cohen signaled to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos his willingness to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The drama of the Paul Manafort’s case continues to unfold. The latest: A personal assistant to Manafort granted the FBI access to a storage locker, allowing the government to secure evidence that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager is trying to suppress, Mark Hosenball and Nathan Layne of Reuters reports. The…
The writer was as assistant special FBI agent in charge of the Detroit field office from 1999-2002 and retired in 2006 as head of the Charlotte Division in North Carolina. By Kevin Kendrick House Republicans are an absolute joke. Jim Jordan is especially an utter embarrassment to the country. If I lived in his district…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Chief Counsel Raphael A. Sanchez of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) was sentenced this week to four years in prison for an identity theft scheme involving the identities of numerous aliens, the Justice Department said. Sanchez, 44, of Seattle, pleaded guilty on Feb….
