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'Justice for Vieques': Resolutions Passed by Both Houses of Puerto Rican Legislature

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: U.S. Navy, White House, Vieques Puerto Rico, Contamination, American Values Network, United Nations, National Council of La Raza, Justice Department, League of United Latin American Cities (LULAC), Eric Holder, Sovereign Immunity, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Green News

In the government's twisted logic, warning people about the impending bombing that will contaminate their air, water, soil and bodies could harm these citizens more.

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An Open Letter To Attorney General Eric Holder

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Justice Department, Domestic Violence, Eric Holder, Politics News

The more successful our progressive President becomes with the majority of Americans, the more extreme his far right critics are going to become.

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Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, Department of Defense, David Kris, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Senate Armed Services Committee, US District Court, Justice Department, John Hutson, Barack Obama, World News, Military Commissions, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Federal Court, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.

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Obama and the Politics of Race

Carol M. Swain | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Discrimination, Justice Department, Race, Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

The Ricci v. Defano decision offers an important opportunity for Obama to take a leadership role in advancing policies and remedies that will ameliorate, rather than exacerbate, racial tensions.

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Alberto Gonzales To Teach At Texas Tech

AP | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Texas Tech University, Gitmo, Texas, Gonzales, Bush Administration, Justice Department, Attorney General, Justice Department Scandal, Alberto Gonzales, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

LUBBOCK, Texas — Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as U.S. attorney general two years ago, is coming to Texas Tech this fall to teach political sci...

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EPA Attorneys Criticize Obama Nominee Moreno

ProPublica | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: General Electric, Superfund Sites, President Obama, Justice Department, Ignacia Moreno, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News

Six EPA attorneys criticized the nomination, but asked that their names not be used in this story because they fear retribution. They said they doubt that anyone who has recently defended GE would be effective in the role.

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Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.

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Release of the "Holy Grail" of Torture Reports Delayed Again

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Sere, Cia Inspector General Report, ACLU Accountability for Torture, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, Terrorism, President Obama, Abu Zubaydah, Fbi, CIA Torture, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Office of Legal Counsel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Steven G. Bradbury, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, ACLU Torture, The Guantanamo Files, Cia Torture Memos, CIA Inspector General, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department -- after two delays -- released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General's 2004 Report into the interrogations of "high-value detainees."

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CIA Report Release Delayed Again

CNN | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia-Inspector-General, Guantanamo Detainees, Eric Holder, Guantanamo, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Justice Department, Gitmo, Torture, Detainees, Politics News

The Justice Department has once again delayed the release of the CIA's internal investigation of its controversial interrogation and detention program...

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Celebrity "Roadkill": A Black Box Warning for Physicians

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Medical Ethics, Michael Jackson, Dangerous Controlled Substance, Drug Addiction, Roadkill, Physicians, Celebrity Culture, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Doctor Shopping, Beverly Hills, Self-Esteem, Justice Department, Prescription Painkillers, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Just Say No, Fame, Opiates, Drug Enforcement Administration, Deepak Chopra, Drug Abuse, Heath Ledger, Narcotics, Pain Medications, Hippocratic Oath, Celebrities, Hollywood, Black Box Warning, Entertainment News

How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"

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Why It's Time for LGBT Democrats to Get Over Their Battered Wife Syndrome

Michael Rowe | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lt. Col. Victor J. Fehrenbach, Gay Rights, Department of Defense, Glaad, Doma, Rick Warren, Dan Choi, Justice Department, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Michael Jensen, Politics News

What if, instead of giving out a million dollar booty-call, the LGBT donors had suddenly crossed their collective political and economic legs, and told the DNC "No more freebies. Not without that ring."

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Never Forget: The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, President Obama, George W. Bush, Navi Pillay, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Eric Holder, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, ACLU Torture, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Bagram Torture, Closing Guantanamo, World, Terrorism, CIA Torture, US District Court, Justice Department, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Judge Richard Leon, Abou Elkassim Britel, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News

Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.

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Paul Minor's Attorneys Ask Attorney General To Intervene

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: William Welch, Ted Stevens, US Attorneys Scandal, Justice Department, Paul Minor, Fifth Circuit, Eric Holder, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Politics News

This new evidence of misconduct should compel Attorney General Holder to review Minor's case and immediately release him from prison.

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Bush Administration Tipped Off Corrupt GOP Rep. To Wiretap: Officials

The Hill | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rick Renzi Indicted, Rick Renzi, Justice Department, Bush Justice Department Leaked, Bush Justice Department, Rick Renzi Wiretap, Politics News

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...

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U.S. Launches Complaint at WTO Over Chinese Export Curbs While Giving OPEC/Saudi Arabia a Free Pass

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: President Obama, 9/11, European Union, China, Opec, Justice Department, Federal Trade Commision, World Trade Organization, European Trade Commisioner Baroness Ashton, Financial TImes, Saudi Arabia, Oil, New York Times, President Bush, 2003 Joint Congressional Inquiry, Prince Bandar, Sovereign Immunity, Department of Energy, Business News

Though Obama has enough on his plate, if time and energy can be directed at China because of export trade constraints, then certainly action against the OPEC cartel is long overdue.

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Judge Orders Release from Guantanamo of Al-Qaeda Torture Victim

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Taliban, US District Court, Justice Department, Abdul Rahim Janko, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, World News, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Judge Richard Leon, Sami Al-Haj, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Seton Hall Law School, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, Adel Hamad, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Syria, Torture, Advocacy, World News

In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, I learned that many of the men were "Mickey Mouse" prisoners, with no connection to terrorism whatsoever.

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Obama Must Live Up to Campaign Pledge on Vieques Cleanup

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead, Lisa Jackson, Napalm, Vieques Puerto Rico, Alan Grayson, Agent Orange, Camp Lejeune, Mercury Poisoning, Justice Department, Depleted Uranium, Eric Holder, Arsenic, Asbestos in Libby Montana, Bush Administration, Contamination, Sovereign Immunity, US Navy, Green News

President Obama should instruct all relevant federal agencies to live up to his stated commitment to address the health crisis in Vieques immediately, pursue an "environmentally acceptable" clean-up for Vieques, and work toward a fair and complete resolution to the ongoing litigation.

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White House Plans Meeting With Gay Leaders To Smooth Over DOMA Tensions

The Plumline | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gay Rights, Marriage Eqality, Barack Obama, Justice Department, Lambda Legal, President Obama, Obama, Glad, Doma, Gay Marriage, Defense of Marriage Act, Politics News

The Obama Justice Department has reached out to major gay rights organizations and scheduled a private meeting for next week with the groups, in an ap...

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DOJ: We Can't Release Cheney Records Because Of Late Night Comedy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Late Night Shows, Jon Stewart, Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Politics News

Sarabeth at 1115.org has a piece up today explaining that the Obama administration's efforts to keep the goings-on of the Bush-Cheney White House away...

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White House Defends Anti-Gay Marriage Brief Amid Furor

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, P[Resident Obama, Robert Gibbs, Gay Rights, Jake Tapper, Gay Rights Obama, Obama, Justice Department, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Barney Frank, Politics News

A week after the Justice Department filed a motion in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, White House Press Secretary reiterated the president's c...

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Empty Evidence: The Stories of the Saudis Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Khalid Saad Mohammed, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Abdul Aziz Al-Noofayee, Politics News, Politics, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Saudi Arabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World, World News, Politics News

Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.

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Obama's Marriage Defense Shouldn't Surprise or Anger Anyone

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Religion, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Donnie McClurkin, Justice Department, Defense of Marriage Atc, President Obama, Same Sex Marriage, Gop, George Bush, Doma, Religious Fundamentalists, Black Ministers, Politics News

The great puzzle is why so many are so hot at President Obama for backing the Defense of Marriage Act.

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Obama's DOMA Defense Unacceptable

Paul Hogarth | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Doma, Justice Department, Doma, Marriage Equality, Politics News

The U.S. Justice Department filed a brief late last week defending a constitutional challenge to DOMA. If pursued by the courts, it could greatly damage gay and lesbian rights.

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Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Palau, United Kingdom, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abdul Semet, US District Court, Justice Department, Abdul Nasser, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Politics, Bermuda, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Guantanamo Bay, Huzaifa Parhat, Jalal Jalaladin, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News

The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.

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Google Facing Increasing Scrutiny From Justice Dept. Over Book Deal

Financial Times | Richard Waters | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Online Books, Google Book Deal, Justice Department, Google Online Books, Google, Business News

Google confirmed on Tuesday that it has come under the scrutiny of both the Department of Justice and a number of state attorneys general over a propo...

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