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Cheney: CIA Interrogators "Deserve Our Gratitude"

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Cia, Patrick Leahy, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Terror Suspects, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Conservatives and liberals alike reacted critically, though for different reasons, to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to ap...

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'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, CIA Interrogations, Torture, Obama Justice Department, Guantanamo Detainees, Interrogation, Obama, Justice Department, Rendition, High-Value Detainee, Interrogation Group, HIG, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bu...

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The Unnoticed Effects of DOMA

Fred Silberberg | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marriage, Divorce, Domestic Partnerships, Equal Rights, Obama, Spousal-Benefits, Full-Faith-and-Credit-Clause, Justice Department, Gay Marriage, Defense of Marriage Act, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

Until DOMA is repealed, "Equal Justice Under Law," the inscription on the building which houses the United States Supreme Court, will have no meaning.

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Bankruptcy Judges & DOJ Rip Mortgage Companies

ProPublica | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, JP Morgan, Loan Modifications, Bankruptcy, Countrywide, Wells Fargo, Ocwen, Hsbc, Justice Department, Financial Services Roundtable, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Business News

Judges have found that major mortgages servicers regularly mess up basic accounting, improperly credit payments and charge unwarranted fees.

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National Review Editor Rich Lowry Offered To Help White House Spin US Attorney Firings

Talking Points Memo | Zachary Roth | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: White House, National Review, US Attorney Firings, Justice Department, Rich Lowry, Media News

It looks like Rick Lowry of National Review offered the White House his services in doing some positive P.R. on behalf of Rove protege Tim Griffin, wh...

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Mission Creep and the Southern Poverty Law Center's Misguided Focus

Carol M. Swain | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black Panthers, Hate Crimes, Poverty, Vanderbilt University, Cnn, Lou Dobbs, Department of Justice, Southern Poverty Law Center, Justice Department, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Politics News

Mission creep occurs when an organization strays beyond its original purpose and engages in actions antithetical to its goals. Rather than monitoring hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become one.

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Gagged Former FBI Translator Claims U.S. Rep Bribe Evidence

Andrew Kreig | Posted 09.08.2009 | World

Read More: Bribery Scandals, Congress, Justice Department, Jean Schmidt, Sibel Edmonds, World News

Former FBI contract translator Sibel Edmonds reportedly claimed in a deposition that leaders in Congress and other U.S. officials were suspected early this decade of being bribed by Turkey's government.

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A Plea to Barack Obama from the Guantanamo Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Four months ago, 17 unjustly detained prisoners wrote a letter to Obama asking for their release. The government censors have only just cleared it and I have reprinted it here.

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Despite Rove's Spin Machine, Justice May Be Around The Corner For Paul Minor

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, US Attorney Dunnica Lampton, Paul Minor, Fifth Circuit, Scott Horton, Justice Department, House Judiciary Committee, Eric Holder, Politics News

What happened to Paul Minor is not only unethical, but also unconstitutional.

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Washington Post: Nominations Roadblock In The Senate "Unconscionable"

washingtonpost.com | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nominations, Barack Obama, Justice Department, Senate Nominations, Nominations Roadblock, Senate Judiciary Committee, Dawn Johnsen, Politics News

IT HAS BEEN almost six months since President Obama nominated Indiana law professor Dawn E. Johnsen to head the Justice Department's influential Offic...

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Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, War on Terror, President Obama, Guantanamo, Fbi, Binyam Mohamed, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Detention Policy Task Force, World News, Habeas Corpus, Obama Detention Policy, Politics News, Sabir Lahmar, Umar Abdulayev, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, Judge Gladys Kessler, Pentagon, Yemen, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Saudi Rehabilitation, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Uighurs, Yasim Basardah, Cia, Torture, Politics News

Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.

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Porn Case Prosecution Signals Shift From Aggressive Bush

Politico | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Montana, Pornagraphy, Torture Portal, Justice Department, Obama Administration, Barry Goldman, New Jersey, Porn, Obscenity, Politics News

President Barack Obama's Justice Department has quietly agreed to move a pornography prosecution out of socially conservative Montana to more urbane N...

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As Judge Orders Release of Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses to Concede Defeat

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Mohamed Jawad, Col. Stephen Henley, Department of Defense, War on Terror, George W. Bush, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Taliban, Judge Ellen Huvelle, Eric Holder, World News, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Robert Gates, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, US Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Advocacy, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Justice Department, US District Court, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Torture, World News

I still have no firm idea why Obama and Holder have allowed the Justice Department to pursue unjustifiable and unwinnable habeas cases, resulting in humiliation after humiliation.

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Mohammed Jawad: Judge Orders Gitmo Detainee's Release

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Obama, Mohammed Jawad, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Eric Holder, National Security, 9/11, Justice Department, Military Tribunals, Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A judge ruled Thursday that one of the youngest detainees brought to Guantanamo Bay is being held illegally and must be released &n...

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Mohammed Jawad, Teenage Afghan Detainee, To Be Transferred To Civilian Court

Washington Independent | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Jawad Obama, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Obama Gitmo, Justice Department, Gitmo, Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Department of Justice, Gitmo Torture, Obama Closing Gitmo, Gitmo Detainees, Mohammed Jawad, Advocacy, World News

It wasn't until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arre...

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New Evidence Reveals Feds 'Coached, Cajoled, Threatened' Star Witness in Siegelman Case

Brad Friedman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alabama, Don Siegelman Case, Doj, Don Siegelman, Fbi, Department of Justice, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Politics News

How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us.

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EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Acknowledges The Need To Clean Up Vieques

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: U.S. Navy, White House, Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, Vieques Puerto Rico, Vieques Mayor Evelyn Delerme Camacho, Contamination, Justice Department, League of United Latin American Cities (LULAC), Green News

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged the need to clean up the island of Vieques last week at the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens.

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'Prostitution Pledge' Injunction Appeal Dropped By DOJ

RH Reality Check | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Prostitution, Prostitution Pledge, Doj, Us Department of Justice, Department of Justice, Justice Department, World News

During a press briefing at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, a young Bangladeshi woman invited by the organization for which I was...

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, World News, Politics News, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Lt. Rich Federico, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, World, Human Rights First, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Mohammed Kamin, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Capt. John Murphy, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Federal Court, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

With no visible progress this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems.

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The Undoing of Gen. T. Michael Moseley: A Cautionary Tale About the Military/Industrial Complex

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Dod, US Military, Thunderbirds, Hornburg, Military, Favoritism, Air Force, Nuclear Missiles, Waste, Military-Reform, Edward Shipley, Secretary Wynne, Justice Department, Military Contracts, Veterans, T. Michael Moseley, Politics News

This tale recounts the interwoven fate of an Air Force Chief of Staff, potentially disastrous handling of nuclear weapons, and a financial advising company with more than 300,000 military personnel as investors.

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Justice Dept. Abandons Torture-Based Evidence In Gitmo Case

The Washington Independent | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Aclu, Doj, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Obama, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Gitmo, Habeas Corpus, National Security, American Civil Liberties Union, Enhanced Interrogations, Mohammed Jawad, Torture, Politics News

The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habea...

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Bush Justice Department Blacklisted LGBT Groups

The Washington Blade | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Attorney General Gonzales, Lesbian, Immigration, George Bush, Gay, Immigration Equality, Lgbt, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, White House, Justice Department, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, George W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales, Politics News

Applicants for Justice Department internships and honors programs may have been rejected based on their membership in LGBT groups during the Bush admi...

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The "Truthiness" Dilemma

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nancy-Pelosi-Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Cheney Torture, Dick Cheney Torture, Justice Department Torture, Justice Department, Democrats, Vice President Cheney, Pentagon Papers, Dick Cheney, Politics News

What Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it hardly stems the flood of foreclosures, and whether she knew and failed to complain doesn't quite equate with directly ordering torture.

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Pat Leahy, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Obama, Eric Holder, President, Bush, Dick Cheney, Intelligence, Drip Drip Drip, Assassination, Detainee Abuse, Briefed, Panetta, Brief, Attorney General, Warrantless Wiretapping, Congress, Justice Department, Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Investigation, Detainee, Saturday Night Massacre, Briefing, Prisoner, Vice-President, Chris Weigant, Wiretapping, I Was Only Following Orders, Leahy, Waterboarding, Hit Squad, Water Torture, Nixon, Torture, Politics News

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Preventive Detention, Mohamed Jawad, David Kris, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, John Hutson, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Sen. Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, House Committee on the Judiciary, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Capt. John Murphy, George Toscas, Federal Court, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics News

Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."

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