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Shocking Diatribe by Third Biggest Right Wing Radio Talk Show Host

Mike Stark | Posted 10.24.2011

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Mike Stark

(Don't have time for the whole diary? Just want the audio/Cliff Notes? Skip to the last video.) Mark Levin is one of the more abrasive right wing t...

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Marcus Baram

James Cole, Obama's Justice Nominee, Derailed By Senate GOP Amid Questions Over AIG Role

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the last 30 years, no one has waited longer to take the number two position at the Justice Department. For over five months, James Cole, a lawye...

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Jeff Muskus

Democrats Spar With Obama DOJ Over PATRIOT Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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When President Obama was Senator Obama, he had deep reservations about the expansion of executive authority. Now that he wields that authority, he app...

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DOJ: Bush U.S. Attorney Firing Was Inappropriately Political But Not Criminal

AP | MATT APUZZO and PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's Justice Department's actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attor...

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Sam Stein

Cornyn: Obama Got 'Lucky' That Times Square Bomber Is Talking

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even though the suspected plotter in the Times Square car-bombing attempt is talking to authorities after being read his Miranda rights, Republicans i...

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Federal Eavesdropping Program to Take Over Arizona Immigration, Nation Relieved

Chris Michael | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Michael

WASHINGTON--Arizona's controversial new immigration bill has come under serious fire this past week by requiring state law enforcement officials to st...

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Internet Pornography Is the "Sexual Revolution" on Speed

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conchita Sarnoff

It is an established fact that without the supply and distribution routes there would not be a porn, drugs or weapons industries with its manifold jutting tentacles.

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Court Ruling Highlights Need for New State Secrets Law

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daphne Eviatar

On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that the NSA's warrantless wiretapping of an Islamic charity and its lawyers during the Bush administration had violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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DOJ Asks Court To Dismiss Another Challenge To Anti-Gay Marriage Law

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON — The Department of Justice on Friday asked a federal judge in Boston to dismiss a lawsuit that claims a federal law defining marriage as...

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State Secrets: Obama AND Bush Position Rejected

Posted 05.25.2011

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The first sign that the Obama DOJ would replicate many of the worst and most radical arguments of the Bush DOJ was in the Jeppesen case, a lawsuit bro...

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Sam Stein

Biden Won't Comment On State Secrets Law He Once Co-Sponsored

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Vice President's office is declining to weigh in on a bill that would restrict use of the "state secrets privilege" by the Department of Justice, ...

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Sam Stein

Pelosi Splits With Obama On State Secrets, Bush Investigations (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi struck a discordant chord with the White House on Wednesday, claiming a "difference of opinion" with the administration's approac...

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Secret Bush Memo Authorizing Warrantless Seizure Of 'Terror Suspects' Released

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed excep...

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DOJ: Remaining Bush U.S. Attorneys Can Stay

Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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With all the controversy surrounding the Bush administration's firings of several U.S. attorneys, the question for the Obama administration became: Wh...

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Dem Senators Pressure Obama's DOJ To Release Torture Report

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday I pointed you to this big scoop in Newsweek reporting that an internal Justice Department review conducted under the Bush administration had...

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Obama Officials Defend Controversial State Secret Decision

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

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The State Secret Privilege is perhaps the most powerful executive tool available for any president to use, and thus the Obama administration's decisio...

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DOJ Rehires Attorney Fired Over Gay Rumor

NPR | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Monday, the Justice Department undid a small part of the damage that top officials caused in a scandal of politicized hiring and firing during the ...

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Obama Justice Department Nominees Named

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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President-elect Barack Obama has announced his choices to fill four top Justice Department positions Monday. David Ogden is being nominated for Deput...

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