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What Will The KSM Trial Really Mean?

Slate | Dahlia Lithwick | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

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For close to a year now, the Obama administration has been playing judicial Whac-a-Mole over accountability for Bush administration torture policies. ...

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Obama State Secrets Privilege Affidavit Sounds Just Like Bush

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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When Attorney General Eric Holder invoked the "state secrets" privilege to quash a lawsuit alleging illegal National Security Agency spying last Frida...

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New Justice Department Policy Signals Hope for Justice in Vieques

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green

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Brendan DeMelle

Dropping the sovereign immunity defense in the Vieques environmental case would demonstrate the Obama administration's commitment to ending the overzealous use of national defense claims.

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Sam Stein

Cheney Accuses Obama Of Politicizing Justice Department

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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In a statement Monday evening, former Vice President Dick Cheney accused the Obama White House of politicizing the Justice Department and insisted tha...

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'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe

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

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

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Consumers & Authors Uniting Against Google Book Deal

Jamie Court | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

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Jamie Court

Google's overreaching in trying to tightly control scanned digital copies of world literature has stuck an alarm bell with more than just consumers and the Justice Department.

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Sam Stein

Biden Won't Comment On State Secrets Law He Once Co-Sponsored

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

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The Vice President's office is declining to weigh in on a bill that would restrict use of the "state secrets privilege" by the Department of Justice, ...

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US Immigration Law Used To Censor Foreign Scholars: ACLU

Inter Press Service | William Fisher | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

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A leading legal rights group charged Tuesday that the Barack Obama Justice Department is using immigration law to censor debate by selectively barri...

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Justice Department Ends "Enemy Combatant" Definition For Gitmo Detainees

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: e...

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Secret Bush Memo Authorizing Warrantless Seizure Of 'Terror Suspects' Released

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and MATT APUZZO | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed excep...

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DOJ: Remaining Bush U.S. Attorneys Can Stay

Tribune | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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With all the controversy surrounding the Bush administration's firings of several U.S. attorneys, the question for the Obama administration became: Wh...

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Dem Senators Pressure Obama's DOJ To Release Torture Report

The Plum Line | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday I pointed you to this big scoop in Newsweek reporting that an internal Justice Department review conducted under the Bush administration had...

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DOJ Defends Bush Law Permitting Concealed Weapons In Parks

Washington Post | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration is legally defending a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush that allows concealed firearms in national parks,...

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Obama Officials Defend Controversial State Secret Decision

The Atlantic | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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The State Secret Privilege is perhaps the most powerful executive tool available for any president to use, and thus the Obama administration's decisio...

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Obama May Release Torture Documents Exposing Bush Administration Lawbreaking

Washington Independent | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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This week, the Obama administration will face its second significant courtroom test of the president's pledges to end unwarranted secrecy about the wo...

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Obama Justice Dept. Pick Was Lobbyist For Conservative Business Group

Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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The leading candidate to head the Justice Department office that oversees legal policy and judicial nominations recently has been a lobbyist for sever...

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DOJ Rehires Attorney Fired Over Gay Rumor

NPR | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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On Monday, the Justice Department undid a small part of the damage that top officials caused in a scandal of politicized hiring and firing during the ...

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CIA Secret Rendition Policy Backed by Human Rights Groups?

Tom Hayden | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

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Tom Hayden

If the Justice Department wants to defend renditions as constitutional on "national security" grounds, human rights groups should meet them in court and seek a better outcome.

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DOJ Sent Hoax Email To Test Employee Loyalty

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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SAN DIEGO — The Justice Department doesn't have to look far to find a scam that preys on people whose retirement plans have been crippled by the...

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Obama Staffing Justice Dept With Bush's Fiercest Legal Critics

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama is staffing his Justice Department with some of his predecessor's fiercest critics, among them lawyers who were fired by Presid...

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Change.Gov's First Big Failure

Ari Melber | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

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Ari Melber

It is striking that Obama's aides, who helped win the election by harnessing new media, believed they could just spin away from their online interlocutors. The move backfired immediately.

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Phasing Out of Transition and Into the Book Business

Mike Lux | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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Mike Lux

Leaving transition work, I find myself a lot more hopeful about generally progressive policy coming out of the Obama administration than some of my friends in the progressive blogosphere.

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Obama Names Critics Of Bush Terror Tactics To Key Justice Jobs

McClatchy Washington Bureau | Greg Gordon | Posted 02.05.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON -- In filling four senior Justice Department positions Monday, President-elect Barack Obama signaled that he intends to roll back Bush admi...

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Elena Kagan: Obama's Solicitor General

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

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President-Elect Obama has announced his intention to nominate the dean of the Harvard Law School as the first female solicitor general, the government...

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Obama Justice Department Nominees Named

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

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President-elect Barack Obama has announced his choices to fill four top Justice Department positions Monday. David Ogden is being nominated for Deput...

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