Target of Political Prosecution By Bush-Era Justice Department Fights Back
By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post The prosecution had acted in a way that was "demonstrably honorable," and the defense's charges that ...
By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post The prosecution had acted in a way that was "demonstrably honorable," and the defense's charges that ...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Without quid pro quo proof of a deal between donor and recipient, anyone, could be accused of "bribery" just for giving money to a candidate running for office, as Paul Minor was.
Andrew Kreig | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
In the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, Department of Justice officials look like they're exaggerating to block justice and to protect themselves.
Steven G. Kellman | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
If universities filled their faculties not with certified experts but with the objects of their expertise, children would be teaching pediatric medicine and psychopaths social psychology.
The Hill | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
In the fall of 2006, one day after the Justice Department granted permission to a U.S. attorney to place a wiretap on a Republican congressman suspect...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
It is time to right the wrongs committed by the overzealous, partisan U.S. attorneys who brought shame and disgrace to the Justice Department under George W. Bush.
David O. Stewart | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Next week, a panel of Deep Thinkers in Washington will consider whether Judge Jay Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should be impeached and removed from office.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
I never thought I would be having arguments with people about the merits of torture, which goes to show you how low Bush sunk the general level of American political discourse.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: e...
Naomi Wolf | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
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.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and MATT APUZZO | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed excep...
Tribune | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
With all the controversy surrounding the Bush administration's firings of several U.S. attorneys, the question for the Obama administration became: Wh...
Washington Post | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration is legally defending a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush that allows concealed firearms in national parks,...
Washington Independent | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
This week, the Obama administration will face its second significant courtroom test of the president's pledges to end unwarranted secrecy about the wo...
AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
SAN DIEGO — The Justice Department doesn't have to look far to find a scam that preys on people whose retirement plans have been crippled by the...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former top Justice Department official made false statements to Congress and violated federal law in overseeing the agency's civi...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
The amazing thing about Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens isn't that he was convicted of seven counts of fraud. It's how trivial his infractions were in the first place.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
That's what former Justice Department counselor Monica M. Goodling and former chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson routinely asked applicants for non-political jobs at DoJ. The question, of course, is against the law.
Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in ear...
McClatchy | Marissa Taylor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A longtime protege of President Bush told former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias that he was fired for political reasons and that he shouldn't fight his ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, th...
Associated Press | Laurie Kellman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique ...
NY Times | PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominate...
Associated Press | Mark Sherman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Democrats and Republicans square off before the Supreme Court Wednesday over a law that requires voters to produce photo identification before they ca...
CREW | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
CREW's Anne Weismann told crn.com that the number of missing e-mails from the White House far surpasses the widely stated total of five million. It co...
Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics