By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe could remain mum if he’s called before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. McCabe’s lawyer fired off a letter to the committee’s chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, saying McCabe “will have no choice but to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege” if called before the committee, reports…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, if there’s an upside to being shot by an FBI agent in a bar, here it is. The Mile High Spirits in Denver, where a patron was shot in the leg by a dancing, off-duty FBI agent over the weekend, says the victim can “enjoy complimentary drinks forever” at the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA agent fatally shot a suspect in a drug probe on Chicago’s west side on Saturday morning, WLS TV reports. The DEA said it was conducting surveillance on, “an individual and a location known as a multiple-kilogram cocaine distribution point,” the station reports. A marked police car attempted to conduct…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manfort is getting himself in more trouble. Federal prosecutors on the Robert S. Mueller III team are accusing him of witness tampering and want the judge to consider revoking or revising his release, the Washington Post reports. Prosecutors accuse Manafort and a longtime associate they linked…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Donald Trump can’t get over the fact Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself in the Russia investigation. He’s constantly tweeting about it and Tuesday was no different. The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself…I would have quickly picked…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Over the weekend, an off-duty FBI agent in Denver made headlines when his gun slipped out of his pants on the dance floor and he accidentally fired it while trying to grab it. A patron was shot and wounded in the leg. James A. Gagliano, a CNN law enforcement analyst and…
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…
