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Bar Patron Shot By Off-Duty, Dancing FBI Agent to Get Free Drinks for Life
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…
DEA Agent Fatally Shoots Suspect in Drug Probe in Chicago
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…
Digging A Deeper Hole: Mueller Accuses Paul Manafort of Witness Tampering
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…
Trump Won’t Give Up on Hammering Jeff Sessions
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…
Retired FBI Agent on Agent’s Gun Firing on Dance Floor: ‘Shocked At The Poor Judgment’
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…
U.S. Secret Service Overpaid Presidential Campaigns About $4 Million for Plane Travel
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…
ATF Is Lenient on Punishment When Guns Are Sold Illegally, the N.Y. Times Reports
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…
Trump Rips Into Justice Department/FBI for Not Warning Him About Manafort
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…