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Marisa Taylor
Abramoff met Bush at least 6 times, House panel confirms
Convicted superlobbyist Jack Abramoff had his photo taken with the president on six occasions, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Monday, though it said it could not determine if Abramoff had lobbied the president personally on any issue. Still, the committee said its probe made it clear White House officials consulted with Abramoff. | 06/09/08 15:27:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Former prosecutors challenge White House immunity claim
Twenty former U.S. attorneys, both Republicans and Democrats, urged a federal judge Thursday to intervene in a constitutional battle over whether two White House officials should be forced to testify before Congress about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. | 05/29/08 19:22:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Justice's criminal division gets a new chief
A Justice Department lawyer who became entangled in the scandal over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year is being nominated to take over the department's criminal division. | 05/22/08 18:24:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Report details military tactics FBI agents found abusive
FBI agents were so concerned about the way the military was questioning detainees at Guantanamo that several top Justice Department officials took the concerns to the National Security Council. But the complaints brought no response from the NSC, which includes President Bush and was chaired by Condoleezza Rice. harsh | 05/20/08 13:51:00 By - Marisa Taylor
FBI seeking records of 2004 Condoleeza Rice ethics probe
FBI agents investigating government watchdog Scott Bloch have subpoenaed any records that would reveal whether he cleared then national security adviser Rice of ethics violations out of concern that the probe would affect the 2004 election campaign. | 05/07/08 20:03:00 By - Marisa Taylor
FBI agents sweep office, home of government watchdog
FBI agents on Tuesday searched the home and office of a federal watchdog as part of an investigation into whether he obstructed an inquiry into allegations of his own misconduct. About 20 agents seized documents and computers from the office and Virginia home of U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch, said officials familiar with the investigation. | 05/06/08 18:57:00 By - Marisa Taylor
House panel OKs subpoena for Cheney aide
The Vice President's chief of staff, David Addington, is thought to know the details of what interrogation methods were used on terrorism suspects held overseas and what was in secret administration memos that authorized the techniques. He's refused to testify without a subpoena. | 05/06/08 14:34:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Senate panel slaps Domenici over phone call to U.S. attorney
The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Republican Sen. Pete Domenici on Thursday for creating an "appearance of impropriety" after he called the U.S. attorney he helped install to inquire about the timing of a federal corruption case. | 04/24/08 20:14:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Top Justice official admits Abramoff fueled his regal life
A former senior Justice Department official admitted Tuesday that he did favors for clients of lobbyist Jack Abramoff while accepting free meals at upscale Washington restaurants and luxury-suite tickets to sports games paid for by Abramoff's former firm. | 04/22/08 19:31:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Former Justice Dept. official to admit to taking gifts in Abramoff case
WASHINGTON — A former senior Justice Department official is expected to appear in court Tuesday to face charges that he helped and accepted gifts from a key associate of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. | 04/21/08 19:47:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Judges deny some crack convicts legal help on sentences
Last year, the U.S. Sentencing Commission called for lower sentences for crack cocaine offenses after 20 years of complaints that harsh penalties fell disproportionately on African-Americans. Now some judges are refusing to appoint federal public defenders to help prisoners who might be eligible for reduced sentences. | 04/20/08 22:00:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Justice Dept. watchdog traded basketball for investigating
As the Justice Department's internal watchdog, Inspector General Glenn Fine has overseen some of the most politically sensitive investigations of the Bush administration's terrorism tactics and of the FBI. Since Fine took office in 2000, he's served Presidents Clinton and Bush and outlasted Attorneys General Janet Reno, John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. | 04/14/08 20:20:45 By -
Lengthy Pentagon review delays report on terrorism interrogations
The release of a report on the FBI's role in the interrogations of prisoners in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq has been delayed for months because the Pentagon is reviewing how much of it should remain classified, according to the Justice Department's watchdog. | 04/10/08 15:29:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Feds vow to speed citizenship process
Federal officials vowed Wednesday to plow through thousands of languishing citizenship background checks in time for the upcoming presidential election. The pledge came as members of Congress blasted Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff for the naturalization delay. | 04/02/08 19:41:00 By - Marisa Taylor
Justice Dept audit: Terrorist watchlist riddled with errors
The government's terror watchlist includes inaccurate and outdated information, increasing the risk that innocent people will be misidentified as terrorists while terrorists are overlooked, a government audit reported Monday. | 03/17/08 17:19:00 By - Marisa Taylor
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