Feds Quizzed Vick On Steroids–headline, The Smoking Gun, 01/06/10
Sunday, January 17th, 2010There must have been an inter-agency weigh-lifting contest later in the day.
Archive for the 'Department of Justice' Category
Which one of you bozos drank the White-Out?
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Report Implicates White House
E-Mails Hint at Involvement in Prosecutor Firings, Officials Say
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 1, 2008; A15
In 18 months of searching, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine and Office of Professional Responsibility chief H. Marshall Jarrett have uncovered new e-mail messages hinting at heightened involvement of White House lawyers and […]
Meanwhile, our now-tainted Department of Justice refuses to prosecute the administration goons who have made a mockery of the United States Constitution. Power Talks, Mukasey Balks!
Friday, September 12th, 2008Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 12, 2008; A02
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence and even ordinary criminal cases.
The overhaul, the most […]
One wonders if Diane and Chucky have finally awakened to smell the coffee?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago
NEW YORK - No criminal prosecutions are planned for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
Mukasey used his sharpest words yet […]
I hope he’s better than El Diablo Guapo! Thanks to Patapsco Jack for the article.
Monday, July 28th, 2008Justice Officials Repeatedly Broke Law on Hiring, Report Says
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In this Aug. 27, 2007 file photo, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announces his resignation during at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. A new Justice Department report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges, and largely lays the […]
Dick, W ‘n Gonzo can make Ashcroft look good.
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A must-read interview with David Iglesias
1:47 AM Sun, Jul 13, 2008
Tod Robberson
December 6, 2006, the Bush administration’s Justice Department carried out an unprecedented decision to fire seven U.S. attorneys - all Republicans - in a single day. It was originally portrayed as a performance-related issue in which the attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, was exercising the […]
In case you may have forgotten Senators Schumer and Feinstein voted for Mukasey.
Saturday, April 12th, 2008baltimoresun.com
Bush stance likened to Nixon’s
Judiciary Committee lawyers urge judge to make White House answer subpoenas
Associated Press
April 11, 2008
WASHINGTON President Bush’s refusal to let two confidants provide information to Congress about fired federal prosecutors represents the most expansive view of executive privilege since Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee told a federal judge yesterday.
Lawyers for the Democratic-led […]
Justice Dept. ‘Cannot’ Probe Waterboarding, Mukasey Says–Washington Post headline, February 7, 2008
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Sadly, Feinstein and Schumer were blinded by the light…
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…or was it the nifty lapel flag?
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By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 8, 2008; Page A04
The attorney general yesterday rejected growing congressional calls for a criminal investigation of the CIA’s use of simulated drownings to extract information from its detainees, as Vice President Cheney called […]
Schumer and Feinstein should feel quite happy right now!
Friday, December 14th, 2007Mukasey Rejects Call for CIA Tape Details
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 14, 2007; 2:27 PM
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department’s inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, saying that providing such information would make it appear that the department was “subject to […]
Senator Whitehouse displays samples of W’s continual erosion of the rule of law.
Friday, December 7th, 2007This morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)(VIDEO) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform. Using his privilege as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Whitehouse said he has “spent hours poring over” secret opinions issued by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — and he took […]