Search for: "US Department of Justice, Office of Professional Responsibility" Results 21 - 40 of 2,166
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
26 Jul 2017, 7:26 am by Carrie Cordero
I have a few awards from my thirteen years in the Department, but the one I treasure the most is the smallest in size—it is a wooden plaque a few inches wide that those of us who served in a small national security office after the 9/11 attacks were handed by our office leadership a few months later in a windowless conference room. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 10:10 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman are reporting that the soon-to-be-released report from the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility will "clear" former OLC attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee of professional misconduct. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 1:10 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility [official website] has reopened an investigation into the administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] after recently being granted the necessary security clearances previously denied to DOJ investigators, OPR chief H. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 8:55 am by pfriedman
From Jurist The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] has overruled the findings of a report [DOJ Ethics Report] released Friday concluding that two Bush administration lawyers committed professional misconduct when they wrote memos [JURIST news archive] authorizing the use of certain interrogation techniques that critics have called torture. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 10:14 am by Ann Althouse
Newsweek reveals the findings of the report from the Office of Professional Responsibility: While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other "enhanced" interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding. [read post]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) released an executive summary of a report Thursday, which states that the prosecutors in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 federal criminal investigation did not break the law, although they did exercise poor judgment. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 12:19 pm by Bruce Zagaris
Justice Department Starts Task Force to Enforce Russian Sanctions against Russian Oligarchs appeared first on IELR Blog. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 12:19 pm by Bruce Zagaris
Justice Department Starts Task Force to Enforce Russian Sanctions against Russian Oligarchs appeared first on IELR Blog. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 8:13 pm
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has been charged with "taking on some of the weightiest issues in government -- examining the role Justice's lawyers played in formulating administration interrogation policies for suspected terrorists and in endorsing a National Security Agency program of warrantless electronic surveillance. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 10:44 am by Chris Castle
Department of Justice, and was recently appointed to oversee the entire Antitrust Division. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 8:20 pm
Beginning in March 2007, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) conducted this joint investigation into the removals of these U.S. [read post]
13 Jul 2013, 10:00 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
The responsibility placed on these agents was described by Justice Wein in R. v. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 5:56 am by Ann Althouse
" Of course, the fight was against the current Executive Branch, including the investigation conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility:OPR's investigation was so biased, so flawed, and so beneath the Justice Department's own standards that last week the department's ranking civil servant and senior ethicist, David Margolis, completely rejected its recommendations.Yoo says he… [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 4:33 pm
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of the Inspector General released this report (pdf) today concerning the hiring process at DOJ. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 6:00 am by Mike Scarcella
Justice Department's professional responsibility office is leaving government service to take a partner slot in the Washington office of O'Melveny & Myers. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 12:04 pm
The Office of Professional Responsibility is taking on some of the weightiest issues in government -- examining the role Justice's lawyers played in formulating administration interrogation policies for suspected terrorists and in endorsing a National Security Agency program of warrantless electronic surveillance. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 4:18 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Obama Administration Justice Department has made enforcement of disability and other federal discrimination laws a key priority. [read post]