WASHINGTON — An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of pay...
Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
President Obama is seeking massive changes in the way the US is operating when it comes to energy, transportation, agriculture and labor, among others...
New York Times | Miguel Helft | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business
The Justice Department has begun an investigation into whether the recruiting practices of some of the largest technology companies violated antitrust...
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release into the United States.
LA Times | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
The FBI and Justice Department plan to significantly expand their role in global counter-terrorism operations, part of a U.S. policy shift that will r...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that argues that Hillary Rodham Clinton cannot legally serve as secre...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Activists backing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are asking the Justice Department to open a wide-ranging investigat...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
In Today's Audio Report: One step forward and two steps back for Obama and the Democrats -- the changing political climate of climate change politics....
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
We cannot claim to care for the poor while we turn our backs on our role in the destruction of the most basic resources our neighbors need for survival.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
I am surprised that senior Obama officials seem to have been content to let a Bush-era approach to prosecution survive unchanged.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics
The absurdity of giving this award to a man who in word, deed, and symbol is the diametric opposite of everything the nation's premier civil rights group stands for and has fought for is enough to draw a gag.
Parvez Ahmed | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
It is time for America to reclaim its true legal tradition of judging a person by their actions, not on the basis of their color, practices of their faith or on the basis of their names.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The FBI has been slow to update the national terror suspect watchlist _ and the lapses pose real risks to U.S. security, a Justice ...
New York Times | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has improperly kept nearly 24,000 people on a terrorist watch list based on outdated or sometimes irrelevant infor...
Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
The government tells us that some industries are too big to fail and therefore they deserve to be bailed out. Well I think some causes are too sacred to give up on.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
This attempt by a former guard at a death camp to cast himself as the victim is nothing less than a grotesque debasement of the word "torture,"
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media
Sean Hannity's offer to undergo waterboarding for charity is almost too good to refuse.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 23 year-old decision that stopped police from initiating questio...
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
It would be betrayal of the sacrifices of Americans like my grandfather to selectively prosecute the low-level offenders at Abu Ghraib and ignore the policy makers who set the violations of the Geneva Convention in motion.
The Atlantic | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Dan Bogden, who served as the United States attorney from Nevada until he was abruptly dismissed from his job during the infamous wave of firings of U...
Jacob Dickerman | Posted 05.18.2009 | Comedy
Thank you, Dennis, for showing all of us who think that people should actually pay for their crimes against humanity that we just don't understand. You are truly a one-eyed man in the land of the blind.
Gigi Sohn | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
While there are a number of lawyers and others in the White House and elsewhere with a more balanced view of copyright, having so many recording industry lawyers concentrated in the Justice Department is particularly troubling.
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects Thursday, even as...
AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business