Bush Justice Department

The Tip of the Iceberg

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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Jacob Heilbrunn

The amazing thing about Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens isn't that he was convicted of seven counts of fraud. It's how trivial his infractions were in the first place.

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Republican Prosecutors and a Local Alabama Newspaper, An Overly Cozy Relationship

David Fiderer | Posted 08.21.2008 | Media

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David Fiderer

Focus on what local papers like the Birmingham News aren't talking about, because that's where the action is. And there's enough action to fill five John Grisham novels. Here's one subplot.

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"What is it About George W. Bush that Makes you Want to Serve Him?"

Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

That's what former Justice Department counselor Monica M. Goodling and former chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson routinely asked applicants for non-political jobs at DoJ. The question, of course, is against the law.

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Bush Rejected Ashcroft's DOJ Picks In Favor Of Torture-Legalizing Loyalist

Washington Post | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in ear...

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40 Years after MLK's Death: DOJ's War on Black Voters

Art Levine | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Art Levine

What was once primarily a series of tactics stretching back from the evil days of the poll tax in the 1960s to "caging" and photo ID today, has become official Justice Department policy.

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Fired US Attorney: I Was Told My Firing "Was Political"

McClatchy | Marissa Taylor | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics

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A longtime protege of President Bush told former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias that he was fired for political reasons and that he shouldn't fight his ...

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More FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, th...

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Justice Department: Waterboarding Not Legal

Associated Press | Laurie Kellman | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

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A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique ...

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Bush Nominates Torture Advocate To Senior Justice Post

NY Times | PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

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The Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques was renominate...

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Supreme Court Hears Voter ID Law Challenge

Associated Press | Mark Sherman | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

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Democrats and Republicans square off before the Supreme Court Wednesday over a law that requires voters to produce photo identification before they ca...

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Bush League Justice

Dan Abrams | Posted 12.09.2007 | Media

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Dan Abrams

Bush League Justice is a series that stems from my increasing frustration and outrage over how the Bush administration has politicized the usually apolitical Justice Department.

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CREW: Bush Administration Lost More Than 10 Million Emails

CREW | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

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CREW's Anne Weismann told crn.com that the number of missing e-mails from the White House far surpasses the widely stated total of five million. It co...

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Secrets of the Justice Department

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

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Anthony D. Romero

So much for American values. The U.S. government had officially endorsed torture, in secret, of course.

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