Last week Bush made an unprecedented request for the Department of Justice to investigate Ohio voter registrations. Something like this has never been done so close to an election. Well now it looks like the DOJ is ignoring Bush: The Department of Justice will not require Ohio to disclose the names of voters whose registration […]
I have spent a long time working in the computer industry and one of the areas I do a lot of work in is cyber security. That means I have been very interested in the whole Palin email hacking case. Essentially what has puzzled me is the attention it has received from the Department of […]
Just now breaking on MSNBC. More as the details come out. UPDATE 1: The DOJ will be holding a news conference at 1:20pm est today to discuss the charges returned by the grand jury. UPDATE 2 (and bumped) A PDF of the indictment is available here. The news conference is just now starting (1/2 hour […]
Good – now send her ass to jail! I remember during the whole U.S. attorney scandal the right wing talking heads on TV trying to say how this was normal practice and very legal. I guess it’s time to serve them up a big old plate of crow.
Or more specifically – their chairman? Raw Story has an exclusive about San Diego GOP’s new chairman and how he was heavily involved in pirating software. Besides being totally anti-business (something I would think the GOP would shun), let’s not forget what our Attorney General, Michael Mukasey said earlier this month: Criminal syndicates, and in […]
The 11th Circuit has granted former Al. Governor, Don Siegelman, his request to be released from prison pending his appeal. Earlier today the House requested the DOJ release him temporarily to testify before Congress on his case. It looks like the DOJ no longer will have a say, as Siegelman is now out pending appeal.
The final nail in the GOP coffin this election season would be if the DOJ announced a bunch more indictments in the Abramoff scandal. We know this is not about to happen, but this little bit of information gives us insight into the possibility that they will becoming after elections: Jack Abramoff, the lobbying scandal […]
This is a big hit to the DOJ’s position on raiding a Congressman’s office: A federal appeals court on Friday barred the Justice Department from reviewing evidence seized from a Louisiana congressman’s office during an unprecedented FBI raid on his Capitol Hill office in May. A three-judge panel ordered a federal trial judge to ensure […]
Well Bush must be worried about the today’s USA Today report and has already addressed reporters on it: President Bush addressed Thursday a newspaper report that the National Security Agency was collecting records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls. Bush neither confrimed or denied the report that AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., […]
Last night we were slapped with this very disturbing piece of news: The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, or OPR, sent a fax […]