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23 Aug 4:07 am
... Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller, III has
accused Scotland's Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, of "making a mockery of the rule of law" ... over his plan to release Al Megrahi. Director Mueller then goes onto
claim that Kenny MacAskill's actions "give comfort to terrorists around the world". ... due process, and sentence appropriate to the crime, the terrorist will be freed by one
man's exercise of "compassion." Your action rewards a terrorist even though he never ...
11 Mar, 2007 7:58 am
... guessing wrong could yield dire eternal consequences. FBI director Robert S. Mueller,III, is a Pascalian. Has the FBI violated the law, obtaining confidential information ... been harmed. No lives have been upended. No businesses disrupted.
Mueller accepts responsibility for the errors and then shrugs. There has been no ... banks, credit card companies and internet service providers without a judge's approval
or oversight. The use of the letters was liberalized under the Patriot Act passed in the wake ...
18 May 11:31 am
... others) former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. Mueller III, for creating, implementing and condoning what he endured. As we stated then ... should be subject to suit. Today, however, the U.S. Supreme Court
reversed, in a close 5-4 decision, saying the abuse wasn't "linked" to the two officials. ... David Souter wrote a scathing dissent, observing that, "at a bare minimum … Ashcroft and
Mueller knew of and condoned the discriminatory policy their subordinates carried out," and ...
17 Oct, 2007 7:17 am
... corruption (15 percent), and, most dramatically, terrorism and national security cases (876 percent). FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller III has signaled a desire to reinvigorate the department's emphasis on traditional ... are realizing that national
security is as much about reducing the number of homicides on our streets as it is about reducing the threat of terrorism,' Mueller said Monday in New Orleans at the
International Association of Chiefs of Police convention. 'Today, in pockets around the ...
20 May 8:52 am
We told you the other day about the U.S. Supreme Court case involving Javaid Iqbal who was never charged with any 9/11-related terrorism, but nevertheless, ... to hold former
Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. Mueller III accountable for
his injuries. Well, the Monday morning court wonks are ... rules which have prevailed for decades." Alan Morrison, former head of Public Citizen's Litigation Group, said that all
kinds of cases will be affected, including employment discrimination ...
13 Mar, 2008 7:31 pm
... s inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, said his office's interviews with F.B.I. Director Robert S. Mueller
III and his top aides had shown a ... shown since the abuses were first disclosed a year ago. However, Mr. Fine's report cautioned, "we
believe it is too early to definitively state whether the new systems and ... will fully eliminate the problems" uncovered in 2007. In simple English for the legalese impaired: the
nation's top law enforcement agency is doing a better job of obeying the law now that ...
9 Aug, 2008 6:49 am
When Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, was buzzed by his secretary that Robert S. Mueller III was on the line, I bet he was nervous. A call from the FBI is everybody's ... us," they said. "We're from the government." You have to admit, the
fact that Mueller not only admitted that it happened, but apologized for it, is a step in the right direction. But ... soon as we have forgotten the last "boo boo," we extend the
government's authority even farther. We just can't seem to learn any ...
9 Jan 6:04 am
... authorized, approved or committed war crimes is currently being prepared. While the complaint is in preparation, the Steering Committee of the Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference is issuing this preliminary memorandum setting forth several of the points to be presented more ... they were seeing, and fearful
that they would be implicated, the FBI agents left Guantanamo. FBI Director Mueller then barred FBI agents from participating in coercive CIA interrogations, a warning-fact well
known to many ...
26 Mar, 2007 5:35 am
... U.S. Magistrate Judge Janet F. King on mortgage fraud charges. Further, Senate Intelligence Committee, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller III ... wanting / desiring a sense of security in jobs, investments, and pursuits of
happiness. The U.S. Constitution even guarantees certain pursuits. Therefore, things such as corruption, incompetence, ... has extensively made public and dealt with Wells Fargo
about Wells Fargo's predatory activities. (See http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2627 ...
27 Aug, 2007 3:32 pm
... job opening at Main Justice. One name we omitted: George J. Terwilliger III. Though we've told you time and again that we're Beltway ...
the Bush campaign's legal team during the Florida recount in 2000. He was also a leading candidate to become FBI director, a post handed to Robert Mueller. Terwilliger is ... previous Republican administrations. (Click here, here and here for background on Fielding.) If that's any
indication for how President Bush might be thinking about his choice to fill the Gonzales's ...
17 Mar 12:15 am
... the FBI was uncomfortable about the leads generated by the NSA program: As the bureau was running down those leads [in 2001], its director, Robert S. Mueller III, raised concerns about the legal rationale for a program of eavesdropping
without warrants, one government official said. Mr. Mueller asked senior administration officials about 'whether the program had a proper legal foundation,' but deferred to
Justice Department legal opinions, the ...
4 Aug 11:16 am
... to sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. Mueller III
for masterminding the whole fiasco. You may recall that the Supremes, in a 5-4 ... anything from a breach of contract case to a disability discrimination suit. And a piece in
today's American Lawyer is now building upon those findings, citing the recent dismissals of ... the federal rules" governing civil litigation." And she was right, because
there's good reason to make sure the "discovery" process can go ahead before a ...
19 Nov, 2007 9:57 am
... Post is hosting a live chat, right now, at this LINK. The Sunday article was, "FBI Forensic Test Full of Holes." Today's article is, "A Murder Conviction Torn Apart by a
Bullet." An interactive map is here. The transcript of the 60 Minutes report, with a ... lead samples, documents show. "We cannot afford to be misleading to a jury," the lab director
wrote to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in late summer 2005 in a memo outlining why
the bureau was abandoning the science. "We plan to discourage ...
16 Aug, 2007 3:05 pm
... him, as the Attorney General, to sign an extension for warrantless domestic eavesdropping on Americans, according to notes made by Robert
S. Mueller III, the director of the F.B.I. Mr. Mueller's notes of his visit to Mr. Ashcroft's hospital room
provide another eyewitness account of the dramatic confrontation over the secret surveillance program. They confirm an account of the encounter given by James B. Comey, the former
deputy ...
20 May, 2008 10:03 am
... and simulated drowning or waterboarding-repeatedly created friction between FBI agents and military leaders. FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller III has stressed that the bureau prefers to build rapport with detainees as the most effective way of eliciting accurate
information from them. In congressional testimony last month, Mueller hinted that the FBI's hands were tied in part by opinions from the Justice Department's Office
of Legal Counsel, which ...
9 Mar, 2007 6:55 am
... . And the report found that the bureau does not follow some of the rules it does have on the matter. Robert S. Mueller
III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, called a news conference today to accept responsibility for the lapses, and to pledge
his best efforts to see that they are not repeated. "How could this happen?" Mr. Mueller asked rhetorically. "Who is to be held accountable? And the answer to that is, I am to be
held accountable." Under the USA Patriot Act, the ...
18 Sep, 2008 10:38 am
... attack on Congress and the American people," Leahy told FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III at a hearing yesterday. "I believe there are others involved, either as accessories ... CIA contractor -- is particularly notable. It has been crystal
clear from the beginning that the FBI's case is filled with glaring holes, that their thuggish behavior towards their only ... so openly and explicitly say they don't believe the
FBI's definitive accusations in such a high-profile case. Indeed, it does! These matters ...
7 Dec, 2006 6:11 am
... and others who have dipped into the taxpayers' till, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told the Senate Judiciary Committee, reports the Washington Post. The numbers ... surrounding former lobbyist Jack Abramoff that led to guilty pleas from
former congressman Robert W. Ney (R-Oh) and a separate investigation that led to a guilty plea ... knows if the extent of corruption is higher
than previous decades. All we know is that the FBI is finding more because it's focusing on these cases.' " Washington Post ...
20 Jun, 2008 10:46 am
... of mortgage fraud at more than $1 billion. That is a small fraction of the near $1 trillion in losses worldwide that have been chalked up to the U.S. mortgage fiasco." "FBI
Director Robert S. Mueller III said the number of cases of possible mortgage fraud the
bureau was investigating had doubled in the last three years to more than 1,400 as of May 31. Robert Gnaizda of the Greenlining Institute in
Berkeley said he feared the government would seek to make examples of ...
10 Mar, 2007 9:09 am
Bipartisan outrage erupted on Friday on Capitol Hill as Robert S. Mueller III, the
F.B.I. director, conceded that the bureau had improperly used the USA Patriot Act to obtain information about people and businesses. -- David Stout, F.B.I. Head Admits...
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