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Bush's Interview wtih Charlie Gibson Marks the Start of His Effort to Revise History

Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fema, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Charlie Gibson, Justice Department, 9/11 Attacks, Clinton Administration, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Scott Pelley, Bush Administration, Politicization, Barack Obama, 60 Minutes, George W. Bush, George Tenet, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Deregulation, Fox News, Joe Lieberman, Hurricane Katrina, ABC News, Bush Presidency, George Bush, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The colossal failures of the Bush administration should be what is remembered about Bush's eight years in office, not some feeble attempt to show what a principled guy he was.

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Scandals Surrounding Don Siegelman's Prosecution: A Quick and Easy Primer, Part I

David Fiderer | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alabama Political Prosecutions, Jack Abramoff, Karl Rove, Bill Canary, Rove Siegelman 60 Minutes, Don Siegelman, William Pryor, Justice Department, Rove Alabama, Politics News
David Fiderer

We know, based on definitive evidence, precisely how certain Bush appointees lied and colluded in order to subvert due process in the Siegelman trial.

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Holder Could Be GOP Target

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder, Bush, Barack Obama, Cabinet, Justice Department, Presidential Appointments, Attorney General, Eric Holder Obama Cabinet, Eric Holder Attorney General, Obama Attorney General, Obama Transition, Obama Cabinet, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Eric Holder's sterling credentials are one thing, but politics is another. A political appointment to a top spot is generally a pro forma affair; it may be anything but that with Holder.

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Dirty Little Secrets About Juror Contacts in the Don Siegelman Trial

David Fiderer | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Justice Department, Michael Mukasey, Don Siegelman Case, Karl Rove, Don Siegelman, Siegelman Scandal, Siegelman Jurors, Politics News
David Fiderer

The woman they called Flipper expressed romantic yearnings about the man named Keith. That was too delicious a morsel not to be shared by email among staffers in the U.S. Attorney's office in Alabama.

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UBS Executive Indicted By Justice Dept

New York Times | LYNNLEY BROWNING | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Swiss Bank, Justice Department, UBS Probe, Ubs, Business News

A senior Swiss executive at the banking giant UBS has been indicted in an investigation of the bank and its offshore private banking services for weal...

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Now That Election Is Over, Its Back To The Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 11.04.2008 | Business

Read More: White Collar Crime, Blame Game, Plunder, Justice Department, Economy, Eliot Spitzer, Fbi, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Danny Schechter

When Spitzer and his counterparts began investigating large mortgage companies, it became clear that if there was a crime going on, and it was massive and institutional, not just individual.

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The Tip of the Iceberg

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Stevens Verdict, Ted Stevens, Stevens Conviction, Bush Justice Department, Stevens Convicted, Ted Stevens Convicted, Ted Stevens Conviction, Justice Department, Ted Stevens Verdict, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

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.

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Fighting Voter Fraud

Wall Street Journal | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Voting Problems, Voter Fraud, Acorn, Justice Department, 2008 Election, 2008 Elections, Election 2008, Politics News

We've all read a lot about the "politicization" of the Justice Department in recent years, and that political pounding is having an ironic effect. The...

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ACORN Isn't Obama's Swiftboat, But It Can Distract

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Gop. 527 Committees, Barack Obama, Justice Department, Vote Fraud, Fbi, Democrats, Presidency, Voter Registration Drive, John McCain, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The attack against the ACRON is old news: GOP officials and politicians have trotted out the allegations of an ACORN voter hijack plot since 2006.

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Guantanamo Uyghurs' resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Uighurs, Miami Herald, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Tallahassee, Guantanamo, New York Times, Clint Williamson, US District Court, Justice Department, Uyghurs, State Department, Uighurs, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Guantánamo is full of bleak stories. How could it fail to be, when it is a vast failed experiment, a "terror prison" that contains few terrorists, a ...

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U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, UK High Court, Morocco, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, CIA Torture, Clive Stafford Smith, Washington Post, Dark Prison, Binyam Mohamed, Justice Department, Defense Department, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...

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Move Over Wall Street, Hollywood and the Chamber of Commerce Want Their Handouts Too

Gigi Sohn | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Recording Industry, Department of Justice, Wall Street Crisis, Justice Department, Copyright, Hollywood, Economy, Business News
Gigi Sohn

These lawsuits could be brought even if the copyright holder has sued the alleged violator for civil damages; your tax dollars could be used to punish the same person or company twice.

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gaffe, Bugliosi, Markets, Don Siegleman, Bail Out, Feinstein, Mark Pryor, Steve Bradbury, Fisa, Mccain, Campaign, Mary Landrieu, Difi, Sarah Palin, Offshore Drilling, Nation of Whiners, Bailout, 2008, National Security, Constitutional Rights, Midotw, Paris Hilton Energy Plan, Drilling, Gang of 10, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Kent Conrad, Torture Memo, Rove, Energy, Gang of Ten, Executive, Democrat, Basketball, Feingold, Joe Biden, 08, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Blue Ribbon Commission, Mddotw, Wiretapping, Charles Manson, Crisis, Financial, Dnc, Spain, Warrantless, Russ Feingold, Gramm, Ben Nelson, Gang of 20, Vincent Bugliosi, Economy, Meltdown, John Yoo, Middle Class, Vermont, Regulation, Democratic, Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Media, Fourth Amendment, Republican, Bush, Savings and Loan, Siegelman, Office of Legal Counsel, Playbook, Phil Gramm, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Progressive Party, Yoo, Ken Salazar, Fat Cats, Gang of Twenty, Mental Recession, Keating Five, John McCain, Karl Rove, Rules, Msm, Attorney General, Count the Lies, 2008 Elections, Contempt, 2008 Election, Tom Carper, Oil Companies, Senior Moment, Murder, Charlotte Dennett, Blanche Lincoln, Tim Johnson, Progressive, 08 Campaign, Wall Street, Rulebook, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Deregulation, Torture, Prosecute, Manson, Dennett, Olc, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Conyers Demands "Immediate Halt to Republican Vote Suppression Efforts"

Brad Friedman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Gop, John Conyers, Olympics, Economy, Michigan, Michael Mukasey, Vote Caging, Justice Department, Voter Suppression, Civil Rights, Politics News
Brad Friedman

The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers', is calling on the John McCain campaign to "immediately halt Republican vote suppression efforts."

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Urge Congress to Vote Contempt for Karl Rove

Don Siegelman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Justice, Congress, Alberto Gonzales, Politicization, Karl Rove, Doj, Don Siegelman, Justice Department, Nancy Pelosi, Judiciary, Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, Politics News
Don Siegelman

I'm urgently enlisting your help to hold Karl Rove accountable for politicizing the Department of Justice -- including the prosecution that targeted me -- because our time may well be running out.

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ATF Under Bush Cannot Account For Many Missing Weapons, Laptops

Reuters | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Laptops, Weapons, Justice Department, Atf, Home News

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had 76 weapons and 418 laptop computers lost, stolen or go m...

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New FBI Rules Would Make Domestic Surveillance Even Easier

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Wiretapping, Fbi, Justice Department, Justice Department Spying, Domestic Spying, Politics News

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 na...

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Justice Department Hires Top Lawyer In Possible Google Antitrust Suit

Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Google, Google Anti-Trust Lawsuit, Google Justice Department Lawsuit, Justice Department Lawyer Google, Justice Department, Google Ad Lawsuit, Business News

The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation's best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possib...

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After Cheney, Vice Presidents Matter

Andy Rosenberg | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Guantanamo Bay, Experience, Republican Nominee, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain, Joe Biden, Office of the Vice President, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Torture, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Vice President, Palin Cheney, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Andy Rosenberg

American voters -- wary of the Cheney experience -- will think long and hard about the next person they trust to uphold the role of the vice president.

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Impeachment? Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Hell, No -- Haul George Bush into a Court of Law, Part 4

Russ Wellen | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, John Conyers, Death Penalty, Justice Department, Iraq, U.S. Military, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, House Judiciary Committee, Politics News
Russ Wellen

Vincent Bugliosi talks about his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. RW: You wrote, "I strongly believe without absolutely knowing that...

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Impeachment? Truth and Reconciliation Commission? No, Haul George Bush into a Court of Law, Part 2

Russ Wellen | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Murder, George Bush, John Conyers, US Military, Impeachment, Death Penalty, Iraq, Justice Department, House Judiciary Committee, Prosecution, Politics News
Russ Wellen

Vincent Bugliosi talks about prosecuting George Bush and his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee appearance.

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White House Pushes For Expanded Domestic Spying

Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson | Posted 08.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spying, Justice Department, Domestic Surveillance, Domestic Spying, Politics News

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about A...

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It Ain't Over Mukasey

Paul C. Light | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Justice Department Hiring Scandal, Civil Service, Mukasey, Scandal, Justice Department, Politics News
Paul C. Light

Mukasey declared the Justice Department hiring scandal closed yesterday. There was no criminal harm, he told the American Bar Association, therefore no foul. He is absolutely wrong.

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Impeachment? Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Never Mind That -- Haul George Bush into a Court of Law, Part 1

Russ Wellen | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Murder, George Bush, John Conyers, Helter Skelter, US Military, Vincent Bugliosi, Justice Department, Impeachment, Charles Manson, Death Penalty, Iraq, House Judiciary Committee, Prosecution, Politics News
Russ Wellen

Bugliosi's agenda: Once Bush is out of office, let's drag his butt into a court of law. But the media's perception that much of the public can't conceive of prosecuting a president in a court of law is probably accurate.

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Justice Staffers Won't Be Prosecuted For Illegal Hiring Practices

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Justice Department, Doj, Doj No Prosecutions, Doj Hiring Scandal, Doj Politicization, Michael Mukasey, Mukasey Doj Hiring Scandal, Mukasey Doj, Monica Goodling, Kyle Sampson, Politics News

NEW YORK — No criminal prosecutions are planned for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of ...

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