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Al Franken Trumps DOJ Official With The 4th Amendment

Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judiciary Committee Patriot Act, Al Franken Fourth Amendment, Al Franken Patriot Act, Justice Department, Al Franken, Patriot Act Fourth Amendment, Senate Judiciary Committee, David Kris, Justice Department Patriot Act, Politics News

Just in case he wasn't familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant a...

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Obama To Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets

washingtonpost.com | Carrie Johnson | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, State Secrets Privilege, National Security, State Secrets, Obama State Secrets, Department of Justice, Holder Bush State Secrets, Obama National Security, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Rendition, Bush State Secrets, Politics News

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...

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Obama: Patriot Act Surveillance Law Should Stay

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration promised Congress on Tuesday to negotiate stronger privacy protections for Americans under terrorism surve...

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9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Col. Peter Masciola, House of Representatives, Congress, David Kris, Col. Stephen Henley, World, War on Terror, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Politics News, Senate, Capt. John Murphy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Maj. David Frakt, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

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Siegelman Blasts DoJ and Judge In 'Final' Reply Seeking Hearing

Andrew Kreig | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don Siegelman, Karl Rove, U.S. Attorney Scandal, Richard Scrushy, Tamarah Grimes, Whistleblower, Justice Department, Mark Fuller, Eric Holder, Politics News

Facing a sentence of 20 additional years in prison recommended by Bush Justice Department holdovers, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman has finally taken off the gloves against his prosecutors and the judge.

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What This Week's Terrorism Arrests Reveal About the Post-9/11 Strategy

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fbi, Law, Justice Department, War on Terror, Crime, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Najibullah Zazi Terror Probe, Najibullah Zazi, Politics News

One thing is certain, authorities have powerful tools to get people off the streets in the array of statutes that they have at their disposal. They also have an extraordinarily difficult job of balancing their obligations.

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Judge Orders Release From Guantanamo of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, John Bellinger, Jane Mayer, Cia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Fouad Al-Rabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Sleep Deprivation, Torture, Gitmo, World News

Following Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling, the DOJ did not indicate whether it will appeal the decision, but I sincerely hope that the government follows the judge's advice and repatriates al-Rabia.

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Jamie Leigh Jones: Halliburton Employee's Gang Rape Not Workplace Injury, Court Rules

Mother Jones | Ã¢â‚¬â€� by Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Rape, Doj, Jamie Leigh Jones, Justice Department, Sexual Assault, War in Iraq, u.s. Foreign Policy, Gang Rape, Halliburton, Sexual Harassment, Halliburton/Kbr, Iraq, Business News

Remember Jamie Leigh Jones, the Halliburton/KBR contractor who alleged she was gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq and then imprisoned in a shipping ...

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Thomas Perez Confirmation To Lead DOJ Civil Rights Division Held Up For Six Months

The American Prospect | Adam Serwer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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For months, the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder have been promising to restore the Justice Department's role in protecting minor...

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Gale Norton, Former Interior Secretary, Is Focus Of Corruption Probe

Los Angeles Times | Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gale Norton Probe, Gale Norton, Bush Administration, Justice Department, Royal Dutch Shell, Politics News

The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC,...

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EPA Smog Limit: Agency Scraps Bush-Era Smog Rule And Will Start Over

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: George Bush, Smog Rules, Environmental Regulation, Obama, Smog, Justice Department, Smog Limits, Bush, Epa, Health, Asthma, Respiratory Illnesses, Air Pollution Law, Air Pollution, Heart Attacks, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is scrapping a controversial Bush-era rule that set stricter limits for smog but fell short of ...

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Joseph Cassano, AIG Execs Could Face Grand Jury In Brooklyn

wsj.com | AMIR EFRATI and SUSAN PULLIAM | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Joseph Cassano, AIG Grand Jury, Aig, Financial Crisis, American International Group, Credit Crunch, Justice Department, Business News

Federal prosecutors, capping an 18-month investigation, are preparing to impanel a grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., to consider an indictment of a former...

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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

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Orly Taitz Floats Another Forged Obama Birth Certificate

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Josh Gerstein, Birthers, Worldnetdaily, Orly Taitz, Justice Department, President Obama, Politics News

Josh Gerstein is all over the Justice Department's filing in Orly Taitz's latest "birther" lawsuit. Taitz's suit includes -- not as evidence, but as s...

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Treasury Backs Down In Clash With Bailout Watchdog

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Senate Finance Committee, Chuck Grassley, Obama Administration, Neil Barofsky, Max Baucus, Justice Department, Sigtarp, Transparency, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department has decided not to challenge the independence of the government watchdog agency that Congress created to ov...

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Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal?

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.

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Reagan's Deputy AG Calls For Expanded CIA Probe

The Raw Story | John Byrne | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Bruce Fein, Ronald Reagan, Cia, Gop, Justice Department, CIA Probe, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

In an interview late Tuesday, Bruce Fein, an Associate Deputy Attorney General during President Ronald Reagan's administration, said the Justice Depar...

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Hypocrisy Alert: Cheney Relies on the Objectivity of the Justice Department to Defend Torture

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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The gall of Cheney's statements is that he was a key part of the administration that deconstructed the objectivity of the Justice Department, which he now relies on to defend the use of torture.

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Obama Admin Planning To Revive High-Impact Civil Rights Enforcement

AP | Charlie Savage | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is moving forward with plans to expand its civil rights division, pursuing cases of discrimination in the wo...

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My Conversation with Former CIA Officer Robert Baer

Tavis Smiley | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice Department, Terrorism, Robert Baer, Politics News

I spoke with Baer on statements made Sunday by Dick Cheney regarding the investigation the treatment of terror suspects.

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Corporate Boards, Conflict of Interest and Copyright

Alex Green | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Al Gore, Copyright, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Books, Open Book Alliance, Justice Department, Craigslist, Ebay, Amazon, Google, Media News

Much about the world we know can be delegated to the barons of tech, but the governance of copyright cannot or we endanger our access to open information and the ownership of our own words.

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Abuse Issue Puts Justice Dept., CIA, At Odds

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER, DAVID JOHNSTON and MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- With the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate detainee abuses, long-simmering conflicts between the Central Intelligence Agency an...

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Formerly-'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower Details Congressional Blackmail, Bribery, Espionage, Corruption in Remarkable Videotaped Deposition

Brad Friedman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly.

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Fire Rove's Prosecutors

Don Siegelman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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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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FLASHBACK: Ted Kennedy Vs. John Ashcroft (VIDEO)

Attackerman | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Bybee, Senate Judiciary Committee, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Justice Department, Ted Kennedy, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

As we dig through the latest rounds of torture disclosures, it's instructive to remember a moment from June of 2004. In the aftermath of the Abu Ghrai...

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