By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The conservative media, including radio host Rush Limbaugh, is pushing back, trying to discredit special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the indictments announced on Monday. “None of this is real,” Limbaugh told his radio on Monday, according to a report by NPR. When a listener suggested Mueller had “gone rogue”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson Jr., who was a fixture of the political landscape here, and carried the mantal of an iconic name in the civil rights movement, may be going away to prison for a fair amount of time if federal prosecutors have their way. NPR reports that federal prosecutors in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The conclusion in an independent report released Thursday on the bungled prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Steven is anything but surprising: The Prosecution screwed up big time. Talking Points Memo’s Ryan J. Reilly reports that the voluminous report concludes that the Justice Department prosecutors engaged in “systematic concealment”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A draft by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that two prosecutors and an FBI agent in the Sen. Ted Stevens case engaged in misconduct,the Associated Press reported. AP, citing ” a lawyer familiar with the matter,” said the report found that prosecutors Joseph Bottini and James…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Stevens is dead and so is one of the prosecutors in the prosecution of the Stevens case, who committed suicide. On Monday, the latest twist in a perplexing case surfaced when NPR’s Carrie Johnson reported that the prosecutors in the bungled 2008 prosecution of the Alaskan senator…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The game of musical chairs continues for reporters covering the Justice Department in Washington. The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson is leaving the paper Tuesday to cover the Justice Department for National Public Radio. She says she hasn’t done radio before. “It will be a new adventure,” she told ticklethewire.com….
The judge says the defendant was a victim of rape himself at the age of 9, and spared him a prison sentence. Was it right? By Scott McCabe Washington Examiner WASHINGTON — The former NPR science editor who pleaded guilty to downloading videos of young children being raped will not have to spend any time…
