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Fired U.S. Attorneys: Bush Administration 'Turned The Justice Department Into The Laughingstock Of The Country'

AP | ANDREW DeMILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Five of the federal prosecutors whose firings in 2006 sparked an investigation into President George W. Bush's Justice Depar...

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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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Federal Eavesdropping Program to Take Over Arizona Immigration, Nation Relieved

Chris Michael | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Sessions, Giuliani Backed Trying Moussaoui In Fed Court, Other GOPers Praised Outcome

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Addressing the Department of Justice's decision to try terrorist suspects in civilian court rather than a military tribunal, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala...

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Justice Department Admits New Mistakes Under Bush

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder asked a court Thursday to release two imprisoned former Alaska state lawmakers after the Justice Depar...

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Republicans Make Case For Prosecuting Bush Officials

The Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Senate Judiciary Committee's "Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry" convened this morning to consider Sen. Patrick Lea...

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John Yoo's Legal Groundwork for Subverting the Republic

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

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The release this week of the "secret memos" confirms that Bush's legal architects were building up the framework for something even scarier than our most anguished projections.

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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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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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Bush Appointed Attorneys: 'We're Not Leaving'

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011

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An internal report issued this week by the Justice Department brought attention to the Bush Administration's efforts to "burrow" partisan ideologues d...

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Bush DOJ Official Apologizes For Racist Email

Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011

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So you'll remember that on Tuesday, a DOJ report found that John Tanner, the former chief of the department's voting rights section, had told a collea...

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Obama Team Expected To Broker Subpoena Deal

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A yearslong legal dispute between the White House and Congress over testimony by President Bush's aides probably will be resolved u...

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