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Israel to Use Eichmann-Style Tribunal for Oct. 7 Suspects

May 11, 2026 at 5:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Israel’s parliament approved a special military tribunal for hundreds of Palestinians accused of taking part in the attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, some of whom could face execution,” Bloomberg reports.

“The prosecution plan approved on Monday recalls aspects of the 1961–1962 trial of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann, which Israeli leaders at the time viewed as an opportunity for the young state, and for international audiences, to confront the crimes of the Holocaust. His conviction upheld on appeal, Eichmann was hanged.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment, Foreign Affairs

Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in Attempted Trump Shooting

May 11, 2026 at 10:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“White House Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges that include trying to assassinate President Donald Trump,” CNBC reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Hacker Stole Thousands From Cory Booker’s Campaign

May 6, 2026 at 7:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A hacker stole more than $3,000 from Sen. Cory Booker’s reelection committee, NOTUS reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Assaults on Jews Reach 46-Year High

May 6, 2026 at 8:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Physical assaults against Jewish people in the U.S. last year reached the highest levels since 1979, Axios reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Narcotics Agents Uncover Drugs-for-Votes Operation

May 5, 2026 at 3:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

ProPublica: “To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons, it seemed at first like a typical scheme: associates of an inmate gang sneaking drugs into the prison, gang members distributing them inside and bank records showing the money flowing.”

“Then the agents discovered something unusual.”

“Leaders of the prison gang known as Los Tiburones, or the Sharks, were selling drugs to inmates not only for money, but for their votes. Specifically, votes for now-Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican and supporter of President Donald Trump, investigators found.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Political Violence Drives Demand for Security

May 3, 2026 at 1:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “Pennsylvania’s governor is trying to figure out who will pay to improve safety at his personal residence. Baltimore’s mayor is being questioned over a $160,000 SUV with enhanced security features. And Minnesota legislators are considering a new security unit for elected officials that would cost millions each year.”

“Even before the attempted attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner last weekend, a spate of political violence and a rising number of threats had rattled state and local officials asking what should be done to protect those in public office.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Jeanine Pirro Appears to Drop Appeal of Fed Chair Probe

May 3, 2026 at 1:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Sunday appeared to abandon a plan to appeal an adverse ruling in her attempts to criminally investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, CNBC reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Rubio Ally Convicted in Lobbying Scheme

May 1, 2026 at 1:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Rep. David Rivera (R-FL), a political mentor to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was convicted Friday for his role in a secret $50 million campaign to lobby officials in Washington on behalf of the Venezuelan government, the Washington Post reports.

“Rubio testified before the jury early in the trial — the first time in more than four decades that a sitting Cabinet secretary has served as a witness in a criminal trial.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Shooting Suspect to Face More Charges

April 30, 2026 at 11:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, said she will issue more charges against the alleged shooter at a press dinner gala over the weekend,” Bloomberg reports.

Said Pirro: “There will be many more charges. We’re waiting for the official ballistics test, but at the same time, we filed papers in court this morning for the detention hearing today indicating that this defendant was calculated. He was premeditated. He had every intention of killing the president and anyone who got in his way.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

The Emergence of the High-IQ Political Attacker

April 29, 2026 at 6:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “An Ivy League grad. An aspiring engineer who scored 1530 out of 1600 on his SAT. A 4.0 high-school student with a prestigious college scholarship. And now, a Caltech grad.”

“America’s growing rogue’s gallery of high-profile alleged violent attackers is notable for a glaring reason: In a shift from recent decades, they are young men who have excelled in academics, at times at the highest levels.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Bongino Says He Planted Fake Info to Catch ‘Snakes’

April 29, 2026 at 9:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Dan Bongino, the former deputy director of the FBI, told Sean Hannity that he would occasionally spread false information to identify “snakes” within the agency that he believed were leaking to the media.

Bongino said he decided to “start messing with people” offering “innocuous” details about his whereabouts and schedule to flush out supposed leakers.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

April 28, 2026 at 3:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jonathan Chait: “To describe Donald Trump as a corrupt aspiring authoritarian is not to conclude that he should be murdered.”

“This ought to be a simple point to understand. Yet it is lost on a large swath of the American right, who insist that calling Trump what he is causes at least some of his opponents—among them, the accused shooter Cole Tomas Allen—to believe that violence is justified against the president.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment, White House

Shooter Charged with Trying to Assassinate Trump

April 27, 2026 at 2:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting on Saturday, made his first appearance in federal court in D.C. on Monday, the Washington Post reports.

He was charged on three counts: attempting to assassinate the president, transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Antigovernment Violence Hits a 30-Year High

April 27, 2026 at 1:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “In fact, domestic attacks and plots against the U.S. government are at their highest levels since at least 1994…”

“For the first time in 20 years, they are coming from extremists on the left in greater numbers than the right… Of the 20 attacks and plots recorded in 2025, the center categorized 10 as originating from the extreme left and eight as coming from the extreme right.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Shooting Suspect Was Targeting Trump

April 26, 2026 at 5:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The suspected gunman who fired shots Saturday outside the White House Correspondents’ dinner was targeting President Trump and administration officials, according to a 1,000-word document the authorities have tied to the man, 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The gunman appeared to be acting alone, and had a shotgun, handgun and knives on him, officials said. Cole was a guest at the hotel where the dinner was taking place, and in the document he outlined security breaches that he said made getting firearms into the building easier than he expected.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Trump Is Bringing Back Firing Squads for Death Penalty

April 24, 2026 at 12:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad,” CNN reports.

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Subpoenas Issued in Probe of Ex-CIA Director

April 20, 2026 at 1:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former senior intelligence and FBI officials who are cooperating with the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal probe into whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress were subpoenaed over the weekend to testify before a grand jury in Washington, D.C.,” CBS News reports.

“The subpoenas went out shortly after the Justice Department appointed conservative Trump ally Joe DiGenova to formally take over the criminal investigation into Brennan after the career prosecutor handling the case was removed late last week.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

Lead Prosecutor Removed in Brennan Case

April 17, 2026 at 12:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

CNN: “The Justice Department has removed the career Miami federal prosecutor leading the investigation into John Brennan, after she resisted pressure to quickly bring charges against the former CIA director and prominent critic of President Donald Trump.”

Filed Under: Crime and Punishment

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About Political Wire

Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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