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DOJ probe on Yoo torture memos ‘damning;’ senators demand answers »
Posted by: jovial 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
A key line in George W. Bush's defense against war crimes
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charges has weakened with the disclosure that an internal Justice Department watchdog has ...Read (676) | Share | Discuss (32) | Read Full Story at onlinejournal.com
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LIVE BLOG: Deposition of Sibel Edmonds Completed, DoJ a 'No Show', Bombshells Under Oath »
Posted by: jovial 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
8:00am PT (11:00am ET): The deposition has now begun inside the National Whisteblowers Center, and has not, apparently, been blocked by an assertion ...
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Obama's Latest Use of 'Secrecy' to Shield Presidential Lawbreaking »
Posted by: Tumultuous 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state secrets" privilege -- which previously caused so much controversy and ...
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WH Counsel Gonzo To DOJ: When We Said We Cared About Your Legal Opinions On Surveillance, We Didn't Really Mean It »
Posted by: bluetexasvalley 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Check out the amazing 2004 letter from Alberto Gonzales, at the time the White House counsel, to then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who had raised ...
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Was Fired Siegelman Whistleblower Really a Security Risk? »
Posted by: jovial 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
A whistleblower in the Don Siegelman case was fired from her job in the U.S. Department of Justice because she was considered an "unreasonable ...
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The Torturers' Manifesto »
Posted by: Beau7890 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush's Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity ...
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A Torture Report Could Spell Big Trouble For Bush Lawyers »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anxiety among former Bush ...
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Senators Seek Ethics Findings: Investigation Focuses on Opinions Issued in Bush Administration on Torture »
Posted by: Beau7890 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Two Senate Democrats urged the Justice Department yesterday to quickly release its findings of an ethics investigation into legal opinions under President George W. Bush ...
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DOJ Should Make All Records Public in Probe of Interrogation Memos »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
LAWYERS IN the Justice Department gave the Bush administration legal cover to use harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. There is little dispute that some of ...
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Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3 billion Settlement Related to Illegal Drug Promotions »
Posted by: engineer 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Pfizer Inc today announced that it has finalized a previously reported agreement in principle with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to settle an ...
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Lawyers Argue Bush DOJ Leaked Info For Political Gain On Eve Of Election »
Posted by: fsev41 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
We now have the lawyers of a former Republican Congressman arguing that the Bush Administration encouraged the Justice Department to leak information on an ongoing ...
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Obama administration threatens Britain to keep torture evidence concealed »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
In February, Obama's DOJ demanded dismissal of Mohamed's lawsuit against the company which helped "render" him to be tortured on the ground that ...
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CIA Directors conclude CIA shouldn't be investigated for murder »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
In a truly shocking development being treated as major news, seven former CIA Directors -- including all three who served under George W. Bush -- jointly concluded ...
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Yoo and Other Bush Lawyers Investigated by Spanish Judge »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
My friend (and resident international law guru) Tony Arend notes a Harper's report that President Bush's so-called torture lawyers -- University of California law ...
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DOJ preparing to charge blackwater guards in Iraq killings »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 year, 3 months ago in News
The US Justice Department has sent so-called target letters to six Blackwater USA guards involved in the September 16 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians , the ...
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