Posted June 1st, 2010 by editor
The Obama administration is on the fence about whether to mount a legal challenge to Arizona’s controversial new immigration law.
The Justice Department is weighing a legal challenge to the still nationally popular show-me-your-papers law. Is that a good idea?
Source:http://theweek.com/article/index/203505/should-obama-challenge-arizonas-immigration-law
Tags: fence, justice department, legal challenge, new immigration law
Posted January 30th, 2010 by editor
White House officials have told the Justice Department to consider other venues for the 9/11 terror trial that was to be held in lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.
Source:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/01/28/2010-01-28_white_house_orders_justice_department_to_look_for_other_places_to_hold_911_terro.html
Tags: justice department, lower manhattan, terror, white house
Posted August 25th, 2009 by editor
“. . .
The Justice Department’s ethics office has recommended that Attorney General Eric Holder reopen and pursue a host of CIA prisoner-abuse cases . . . The recommendation by the Office of Professional Responsibility was recently presented to Holder, the official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on grounds of anonymity . . [...]
Tags: abuse cases, anonymity, attorney general, cia, doj, eric holder, ethics office, justice department, office of professional responsibility, prisoner abuse
Posted July 17th, 2009 by editor
In a blow to the notion of meritocratic government, applicants to the Justice Department’s internships and Honors Program were widely rejected if their resumes included the names of liberal groups on a departmental blacklist, the Washington Blade reports.
Source:http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/report-bush-admin-blacklisted-liberal-groups/
Tags: bush, honors program, internships, justice department, liberal groups, notion, resumes, washington blade
Posted June 10th, 2009 by editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An al Qaeda suspect accused in the 1998 U.S.
Embassy bombings in Africa was transferred from Guantanamo Bay Tuesday for prosecution in a New York court, the Justice Department said. Ahmed Ghailani will become the first…
Source:http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5581MS20090609?rpc=64
Tags: africa, al qaeda, embassy bombings, guantanamo bay, justice department, new york court, prosecution, reuters
Posted May 19th, 2009 by editor
In the summer of 2002, Michael Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, green-lighted the technique known as waterboarding, and offered assurances to the CIA that its interrogators would not face prosecution under anti-torture laws if they followed torture guidelines approved by the Department.
Source:http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/760-chertoff-gave-cia-green-light-to-waterboard-prisoners.html
Tags: assurances, cia, criminal division, interrogators, justice department, michael chertoff, prosecution, torture, waterboarding
Posted April 23rd, 2009 by editor
In 1983, the Justice Department prosecuted a Texas sheriff and three of his deputies for waterboarding prisoners to get them to confess to crimes.
The deputies were sentenced to four years in prison and the sheriff got a 10-year sentence. Yet that case is not cited in the tortureĀ memos DOJ released that authorized [...]
Tags: cia, crimes, deputies, doj, justice department, prisoners, texas sheriff, torture memos
Posted April 21st, 2009 by editor
Rep.
Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
Check it out here:http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000003098436&cpage=1
Tags: california democrat, espionage, intelligence issues, israeli agent, israeli public, jane harman, justice department, nsa wiretap, public affairs committee, rep jane harman
Posted April 15th, 2009 by editor
A U.S.
Army soldier who was allegedly forced to attend fundamentalist Christian themed events and sued Secretary of Defense Robert Gates claiming his First Amendment rights were violated should not be permitted to seek relief in federal court because he failed to take his grievances to his superiors, the Justice Department said in court documents.
Source:http://www.pubrecord.org/religion/832-doj-army-soldier-who-said-he-was-forced-to-embrace-christianity-has-no-standing-to-sue.html
Tags: army soldier, christianity, court documents, first amendment rights, force fed, grievances, justice department, robert gates, secretary of defense, secretary of defense robert gates, superiors, u s army
Posted January 29th, 2009 by editor
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is calling on the Justice Department to release Bush administration documentation pertaining to torture, surveillance and other national security policies.
Check it:http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Civil_rights_group_to_Obama_Release_0128.html
Tags: aclu, american civil liberties, american civil liberties union, bush administration, bush memos, civil liberties union, civil rights group, justice department, national security policies, surveillance
