Justice Department Takes On Fraudster Defense Contractor
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Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses
Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
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Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...
Bush DOJ Official Agrees "Torture Memo" Lawyers Should Be Investigated
Nan Aron | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
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A change in leadership does not eliminate the need to examine our system and learn from our history, even when -- especially when -- our Department of Justice was corrupted to the point of sanctioning torture.
Google Books and the High Bar for Approval: Why Opt-In May Sink the Deal
Peter Brantley | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books
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The only way this book digitization effort makes business sense for Google is if it can amass control over a sizeable swath of rights and can monetize those rights at will in future business models.
Colorado Marijuana Busts: Taxpayer Dollars Wasted When Cops Bust Legal Growers
Glenwood Springs Post Independent | Robert Allen | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver
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SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado -- Sheriff's deputies recently searched a Summit County home where nearly 200 marijuana plants are under cultivation, but the ...
Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
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Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.
The Ring of Truth
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
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A judge in D.C. reluctantly declared a mistrial for Kevin Ring, one of Abramoff's trusted lieutenants. It may be a sign that the reign of honest-services-fraud terror by federal prosecutors is ending.
Sheriff Arpaio: "I Could Get Elected On Pink Underwear"
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a defiant, racial-profiling desperado with renewed authority to abuse his inmates. The scary part? The voting public approves.
DoJ Admits Telephone Companies' Role in Secret Spying
Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
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The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the nation's telecom companies are an arm of the government -- at least when it co...
One-Third Of Obama's U.S. Attorneys Are Bush Holdovers
Main Justice | Andrew Ramonas | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
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More than eight months after President Barack Obama took office, one third of the country's U.S. Attorney offices are still run by prosecutors appoint...
We Are All Polanski's Victims, and We All Deserve Justice
Jaclyn Friedman | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment
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In the confused minds of many, Polanski is a real-life Batman, a flawed anti-hero living outside the law because that's the only way he can truly overcome his tortured history.
Oil Shale Regulations: Judge Grants More Time To Resolve Controversial Bush-Era Rules
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
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A Colorado U.S. District Court judge has granted an extension until Nov. 16 for federal government attorneys trying to reach a settlement with environ...
Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
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The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.
The Torture Report
Jameel Jaffer | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
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Five years after Abu Ghraib, the Defense Department is still withholding photographs showing prisoners being abused at other facilities, as well as interrogation directives used by special forces.
Obama To Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets
washingtonpost.com | Carrie Johnson | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
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The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state se...
New Orleans Jail Conditions Violate Inmates' Rights: Department Of Justice Report
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
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NEW ORLEANS — Violent guards, understaffing and unsanitary conditions violate the constitutional rights of inmates at a New Orleans jail heavily...
Lapses Are the Norm, Not the Exception When It Comes to Our Justice System
Amy Bach | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
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Law enforcement agencies work independently of each other, and don't coordinate well as a rule. When problems do arise, they are quick to renounce responsibility. Usually, they blame each other.
CIA Wants DOJ To Investigate Assassinations Leak
Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
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The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate "significant actions" canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activi...
Gonzales Backtracks On Support For CIA Torture Investigation
Washington Times | Ben Conery | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
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Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said Thursday that his previous assertion that it was "legitimate to question and examine" charges of CIA ...
Bush Damage To DOJ's Civil Rights Division Will Take Years To Fix
The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
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Attorney General Eric Holder committed this week to repairing the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, one of the most scandal-plagued institut...
CIA Continues To Withhold Key Documents
AP | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — The CIA says it cannot turn over more details of its interrogations of terror suspects without spilling classified government secre...
The Economist: America's New Antitrust Policy: Return Of The Trustbusters
Economist | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
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THE new head of the antitrust division of America's Department of Justice, Christine Varney, sees Thurman Arnold, a predecessor who took office in 193...
You're Not the King of Me: Midwest Gen Runs Afoul of the Clean Air Act
Henry Henderson | Posted 09.29.2009 | Chicago
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Filing a lawsuit against the folks responsible for filth-spewing, coal-burning relics in Chicago's Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods.
Closing GITMO: Is This the Department of Justice's Detention Model?
William Fisher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
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The government is already imprisoning, in the U.S., American citizens awaiting trial on terror-related charges, under what their supporters describe as draconian conditions.
Fire Rove's Prosecutors
Don Siegelman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
The Bush era U.S. Attorney firing issue is anything but dead. The people who did Karl Rove's dirty work are still on the job right now because only a handful of the appointees have been replaced.
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