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...Many G-men disparagingly compare the FBI director's wife to the eccentric Martha Mitchell, who while her husband John was Attorney General was resented for getting entangled in Justice Department politics during the Watergate scandal. According to the ethics report, Mrs. Sessions used bureau cars as transportation to get her hair and nails done. She also barged into official business in an unhelpful way, agents say. An FBI official describes her coming into a confidential meeting in Sessions' office at the FBI "in a housecoat and slippers," turning on the TV and thereby ending the briefing. Mrs. Sessions...
When they get to talking, G-men gripe about a certain goofiness in Sessions' demeanor. Gary Penrith, former chief of the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office, remembers briefing Sessions on a major racketeering case. Suddenly, Penrith says, Sessions burst into song, chirping the lyrics of an old advertising jingle: "Brylcreem, a little dab will do ya." Penrith, who quit last year, regards his former boss with contempt. "He loses it," said Penrith...
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DIRECTOR WILliam Sessions is called "the Emperor" by the G-men who work for him. A scathing 161-page report by the Justice Department makes clear why. Sessions, the report says, "systematically abused his security detail" by dispatching it on errands or bumping it from FBI planes to make room for his wife Alice. Former Attorney General William Barr ordered Sessions to pay back taxes for using his chauffeured limousine for commuting to the office and to refund nearly $10,000 for a wooden fence installed by the agency around his house. At a 90-minute...
Given Ross Perot's penchant for bodyguards and conspiracy theories, it's no surprise that the FBI office in Dallas returns his calls. But the G-men may be a lot less receptive to the billionaire in the wake of last week's revelation that federal agents had conducted a fruitless sting operation against the President's re-election team in Texas. Not since the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s has the FBI found itself so publicly embroiled in national partisan politics...
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