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19 Oct 2007, 11:18 am
According to one source who is closely following the debate, the documents did not include the Justice Department's own legal defense of the programs -- which a former attorney who led a revolt against the program described as the "biggest legal mess I encountered there. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 3:55 pm
The Senate Judiciary, by contrast, is headed by Patrick Leahy, the fiery Vermont Democrat whose attempts to get wiretapping documents from the White House and Justice Department have been repeatedly blocked. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 12:03 pm
EPA and the Department of Justice held a press conference Tuesday morning referring to the resolution as "the largest environmental settlement in history," although they appear to be including in their calculations billions worth of projects already undertaken by AEP. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 3:48 pm
We’ve written before about Terwilliger, who was a former No. 2 at the Justice Department during the Bush I administration (he also briefly served as acting attorney general). [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 9:06 am
Department of Justice on behalf of the U.S. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 8:10 am
The duo visited in order to get Ashcroft to sign off on continuing its warrantless wiretapping and surveillance program, which Goldsmith and others in the Justice Department, including FBI director Robert Mueller, wanted limited. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 10:36 am
Acting Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 9:24 am
Attorney in Vermont. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 3:32 pm
The White & Case partner is a former No. 2 at the Justice Department during the administration of President Bush’s father. [read post]
25 Jul 2007, 10:16 am
The Ninth Circuit will also hear arguments that day in an appeal of a case where two American attorneys say they received proof they were targeted by the secret spy program (including during the time that the Justice Department thought the program was illegal). [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 2:10 pm
Leahy subpoenaed the White House, the Vice President, the National Security Council and the Justice Department on June 27, seeking documents about the legal opinions justifying the spy program, spying agreements with the nation's telecoms and documents related to denying Justice Department investigators security clearances to look into the program. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 12:37 pm
But the Justice Department and Sen. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 11:11 am
The Department of Justice, for its part, has produced or made available for review more than 8,500 pages of documents, including scores of documents containing communications with White House personnel.... [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 5:46 am
The second, which has accompanied the first, is a greatly reduced flow of information from the Department of Justice to the public concerning the rate of death penalty prosecutions and their actual results.INCREASED CONTROL OF DEATH PENALTY DECISION-MAKING BY THE ATTORNEY GENERALPrior to 1995, Justice Department regulations specified only that the death penalty could not be sought without the written authorization of the Attorney General. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 7:29 pm
The Senate Judiciary Committee today issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department after what the panel’s chairman called "stonewalling of the worst kind" of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency’s policy of wiretapping without warrants. ... [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 12:46 pm
Subpoena letters (.pdfs) to White House, Justice Department, National Security Council and Vice President. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 12:25 pm
" Here are some ugly particulars from this official press release from BJS: During the 12 months that ended June 30, 2006, the nation's prison and jail populations increased by 62,037 inmates (up 2.8 percent), to total 2,245,189 inmates, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported today. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 7:07 am
A Justice Department lawyer last week asked a federal judge in San Francisco to throw out lawsuits filed by several states that would shed light on the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program and the role telecommunications companies played in helping the government spy on its own citizens without court approval. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 11:46 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] asked a federal district judge Thursday to block New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, Missouri, and Connecticut from investigating potential violations of state consumer privacy laws in the controversial warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive], arguing that the state secrets privilege doctrine bars the state governments [read post]
21 Jun 2007, 2:05 pm
Patrick Leahy (D - Vermont), a fierce civil libertarian and Administration critic, is now authorized to issue subpoenas for documents related to the warrantless wiretapping that are held at the Justice Department and the White House. [read post]
