Today’s New York Times takes an in depth look at Monica Goodling’s involvement in the USA purge: Two years ago, Robin C. Ashton, a seasoned criminal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, learned from her boss that a promised promotion was no longer hers. “You have a Monica problem,†Ms. Ashton was told, according to […]
The document dump from the Department of Justice has shown one very well-known name on the list of those to possibly be fired: U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had “not distinguished themselves” on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the […]
Hell he already taps our phones, why not everything else? The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned. That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a […]
Today’s New York Times article covering the developments in the Foley case has one key paragraph that must be addressed: At the Justice Department, an official said that no investigation was under way but that the agency had “real interest” in examining the circumstances to see if any crimes were committed. Why is an investigation […]
This is amazing. During an exchange on Capital Hill today between Senator Patrick Leahy and Steven Bradbury, legal council for the Department of Justice, Bradbury said that “the President is always right”. Here is the transcript compliments of Raw Story: MR. BRADBURY: Well, Senator, I think — as I said in my testimony, obviously the […]
Knight Ridder has broken open a story that spans over a couple big scandals. Those scandals are Randy Cunningham and the spying on anti-war activists: A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on […]
This was just released by the Department of Justice in order to reaffirm claims by Alberto Gonzalez that electronic surveillance has been critical throughout history. This evidence should provide a harsh blow to Democrats trying to say the domestic spying is illegal.
A front page article in today’sNew York Times shows that Jack Abramoff’s dirty hands reached around the world. According to the article, in 2003 Abramoff lobbied President Omar Bongo of Gabon, a small African Nation, for $9 million in order to set up a meeting with President Bush. Ten months later that meeting happened. The […]
n 2002, Michael Abramoff was being investigated by an acting United States attorney, Frederick Black, in Guam for some typical shady business dealings. Mr. Black was quickly demoted as President Bush appointed a prosecutor to Guam. New York Times is reporting today that there is now an investigation underway by the Department of Justice and […]