Sally Yates: Trump ‘Tearing Down the Legitimacy’ of the Justice Department

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General fired by President Donald Trump last year, says the president’s caustic tweets aimed at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller are collectively “tearing down the legitimacy” of the Justice Department, Yahoo! News reports. Yates, speaking at the 2018…

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Trump Camp Wants to Expose FBI Informant; DOJ Worries that Could Put Lives in Danger, Screw Up Other Operations

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Trump camp continues to wage war on the FBI and the Justice Department. His allies allies are waging an increasingly aggressive campaign to undercut the Russia investigation by exposing the role of a top-secret FBI source, the Washington Post reports, adding that the effort reached new heights Thursday as Trump…

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Trump Wants Justice Department to Go After Oakland Mayor For Tipping Off Residents About ICE Raids

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com California in particular has been bumping heads with President Donald Trump over immigration policy. The latest: Trump wants the Department of Justice to investigate Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf  for obstruction of justice after she warned constituents of upcoming raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across northern California, Newsweek reports. “I mean,…

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Lawmakers Concerned About Allegations of Misconduct in DEA’s Haiti Office

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is concerned about allegations of misconduct involving the DEA’s  Haiti office and the effectiveness of the office’s efforts to fight drugs in that country, the Miami Herald reports. Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland have written to Justice’s…

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Inspector General Report on FBI’s Handling of Hillary Clinton Probe Has Been Completed

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Will the report be a bombshell? Probably. A draft of the Justice Department’s Inspector General report addressing a wide-ranging set of allegations that department protocols were flouted when the FBI investigated Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information, has been completed, CNN reports, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. Inspector…

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Politico Tries To Provide a Snapshot of Robert Mueller’s FBI Investigators

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Politico’s Josh Gerstein tries to provide a snapshot of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s FBI team, writing that the group has a wide range of skills, with some specializing in financial frauds, others in counterintelligence or corruption, and still others adept at investigating computer hacking and other forms of cybercrime. Politico reports: Mueller’s FBI crew…

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Justice Department Announces Improvements to Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department on Tuesday announced improvements to the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program including provisions addressing claims of fatal heart attacks, strokes and vascular ruptures and those injured in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. “At this Department of Justice, we back the blue,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in…

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Judge Refuses to Toss Special Counsel Case Against Paul Manafort

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A D.C. federal judge has given special counsel Robert Mueller the green light to continue the case against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Business Insider reports. U.S. District Judge Amy Jackson declined on Tuesday to toss the charges against  Manafort, who faces two indictments from the special counsel….

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