The Electronic Frontier Foundation, public interest advocacy org for rights in the digital age, has filed a brief in Federal Court challenging the Constitutionality of the telecom immunity bill. EFF is arguing there is no Constitutional authority for giving authority to...
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed a special prosecutor to if criminal charges are called for in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006."The move came as the Justice Department released a report by its inspector general severely criticizing the process that led...
" (ABC News, "20/20")More Photos The Justice Department is declining to talk to concerned lawmakers about its handling of rape and sexual assault cases involving American women in Iraq, making several of them...
What is Mr. Bush trying to do? What is Mr. Bush trying to address?Is Mr. Bush hiding something?"President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice...
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"I seriously doubt it. Taking a couple of thugs out of action is a good thing but won’t destroy the gang. Taking away their reason for being an organization - i.e. their ability to make money - will kill MS-13...
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The Attorney General of the US has made a frankly bizarre claim that terrorist organizations are financing their operations via software piracy. This may have been somewhat plausible if he had a shred of proof,...
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Baseball all-star Miguel Tejada is under scrutiny from the FBI over allegations that he lied to investigators when he denied using steroids. "``The Department of Justice has referred the Miguel Tejada matter to...
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"By April of 2006 the debate about coercive interrogation and its most controversial technique, water-boarding, had started to spill into the headlines. I was in graduate school at the time. As I watched the...
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I bet we could get an answer out of him if we waterboarded him:"WASHINGTON - Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey refused to say Thursday whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, frustrating Democrats and potentially slowing his confirmation to head the...
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Judge Mukasey presided over the nearly year long 1995 trial of 10
militant Muslims who had a plot to blow up the United Nations and other
New York landmarks around the city.Judge Mukasey sentenced the
central...
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Former federal judge Michael Mukasey -- President's Bush's new attorney general nominee -- has quite an impressive resume. But his highest profile case is also among his most problematic -- the 1995 prosecution of...
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