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Department of Justice stories: 249 news summaries

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US Gets Tough on Foreign Bribery

Royal Dutch Shell,
Sun Micro among 120 being investigated

May 26, 09 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - US corporations are looking over their shoulders, thanks to a Justice Department crackdown on foreign bribery, the Wall Street Journal reports. At least 120 companies are being investigated under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA—a nearly-forgotten Nixon-era law dusted off in the wake of a rash of... More »

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Department of Justice • bribery • Sun Microsystems • Alcatel Lucent • Royal Dutch Shell

Rove Tight-Lipped After Grilling Over Attorney Firings

Bush aide cooperated with prosecutor: lawyer

May 15, 09 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove stayed mum as he left an interview with a special prosecutor today about the firing of US attorneys during the Bush administration, the AP reports. Nora Dannehy questioned the former White House aide at his lawyer’s office; she left after about 4 hours. Rove’s attorney said... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • Karl Rove • Harriet Miers • US attorney firings • prosecutors • Nora R. Dannehy

(Newser) - Karl Rove is on the hot seat tomorrow. The former Bush adviser will be interviewed by federal prosecutors as part of a criminal investigation into the firings of US attorneys in 2006, the Washington Post reports. Rove will meet with Connecticut prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy, who has been charged... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • Karl Rove • Harriet Miers • US attorney firings • prosecutors • federal prosecution • Nora R. Dannehy

Obama Antitrust Chief Gets Tough on Big Biz

In reversal of Bush policy, the DOJ will aggressively enforce anti-monopoly laws

May 11, 09 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration’s top antitrust official plans to aggressively pursue a tougher enforcement policy to keep large corporations from dominating smaller rivals, the New York Times reports. In speeches today and tomorrow, Justice Department antitrust chief Christine Varney will announce the reversal of lax Bush-era antitrust policies, and encourage... More »

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Barack Obama • Department of Justice • antitrust • monopoly • antitrust suit • Obama administration • President Obama • Christine Varney • Jay-ZTV

Bush Lawyers Face Calls for Dismissal

But disbarring Yoo
or impeaching Bybee
is an uphill battle

May 7, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department has signaled it won't prosecute the Bush administration lawyers who approved interrogation tactics widely considered to be torture, but they may have trouble keeping their jobs. A forthcoming report from the DoJ will recommend possible disciplinary action by state bar associations for the Bush lawyers, sources tell... More »

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torture • Department of Justice • impeachment • UC Berkeley • John Yoo • harsh interrogation • Jay Bybee

 FBI Neglected 
 Terror Watch 
 List: Audit 

Suspects may have traveled into US while off the list

May 6, 09 12:44 PM CDT
(AP) - The FBI is slow to update the national terror suspect watch list, and the lapses pose real risks to US security, according to a Justice Department audit. Twelve terror suspects who were either not listed or were slow to be added may have traveled into or out of the US,... More »

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Department of Justice • FBI • audit • terror suspects • terrorist watch list

(Newser) - The Bush lawyers who gave their blessing to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques should not face criminal charges, a Justice Department report has concluded. The report does, however, say that Jay Bybee, John Yoo, and Steven Bradbury showed poor judgment and suggests that state bar associations consider reprimands and... More »

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CIA • torture • Department of Justice • waterboarding • John Yoo • harsh interrogation • Steven Bradbury • Jay Bybee

Feds Drop Spying Charges Against AIPAC Lobbyists

Earlier rulings made conviction unlikely: gov't

May 1, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Government prosecutors say they will move to dismiss the espionage case against a pair of former AIPAC lobbyists linked to Rep. Jane Harman, the Washington Post reports. Prosecutors said they probably wouldn’t be able to secure a conviction because of the “additional intent requirement imposed by the... More »

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Department of Justice • US attorney • espionage • spy • AIPAC • Steven Rosen • Keith Weissman

Antitrust Concerns Prompt Google Books Probe

Deal gives Google exclusive chance to profit from texts, say critics

Apr 29, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal lawyers are looking into whether a Google Book Search agreement with authors and publishers may violate antitrust laws, the New York Times reports. The settlement of a 2005 suit allows Google to put millions of scanned books online, charge viewers to read them, and share revenues with both groups.... More »

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Google • Department of Justice • antitrust • Google Book Search • publishing industry • authors

(Newser) - Republican calls for the selective release of memos on torture techniques is a naked political ploy, Greg Sargent writes on the Plum Line. “The emerging official position of the GOP on torture is that the only classified information about torture that should be released is that which can bolster... More »

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War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Department of Justice • American media • interrogation techniques • Obama administration • torture memo

Bybee Rues Signature on Torture Memos

Friends say he
regrets way the legal opinions were used

Apr 25, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jay Bybee has told friends and colleagues that he regrets his role as one of the authors of the so-called torture memos, the Washington Post reports. Most notably, Bybee, who's now a federal judge, signed off on the 2002 memo that authorized waterboarding. "I've heard him express regret at... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • interrogation techniques • federal judges • US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals • torture memo • Jay Bybee • Office of Legal Counsel

(Newser) - The Obama administration is pushing for a Supreme Court decision that would curtail the right of criminal suspects to counsel, the AP reports. At issue is a 1986 ruling that prevents police from questioning suspects unless a lawyer is present. The Justice Department says the restriction “serves no real... More »

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Department of Justice • interrogation • lawyer • civil rights • suspect • attorney • US Supreme Court • Obama administration • President Obama • right to counsel • questioning

OPINION

Bush AG, CIA Chief Slam Obama on Torture Memos


Apr 17, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama made a dangerous mistake in yesterday releasing Justice Department memos about interrogation techniques from 2005, say former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and former CIA Director Michael Hayden. By releasing the details of these methods, Obama is eliminating a crucial intelligence tool—not just for his own administration but... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Attorney General • Michael Hayden • Michael Mukasey • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Obama administration • CIA director

 Obama Releases Bush 
 Memos Detailing Torture 

Justice docs released detail OK'd techniques

Apr 16, 09 3:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Bush-era memo on interrogation techniques acknowledged that waterboarding represented a “threat of imminent death,” but that the simulated-drowning procedure was not torture because it caused no lasting psychological harm, Reuters reports. The Justice Department memo and three others on interrogations were released to the public today—and... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • torture • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • torture memo • public disclosure

(AP) - Seeking to move beyond what he calls a "a dark and painful chapter in our history," President Barack Obama said today that CIA officials who used harsh interrogation tactics during the Bush administration will not be prosecuted. Obama officials also released four secret memos detailing tactics against 28... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Attorney General • waterboarding • Eric Holder • Obama administration

NSA Violated Domestic Wiretap Limits

Agency overcollected Americans' emails, phonecalls: officials

Apr 16, 09 6:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The NSA has been listening in on the domestic communications of American citizens well in excess of the limits placed on it by Congress last year, say intelligence officials. The Justice Department has confirmed to the New York Times that it detected "issues" in recent months but said it ... More »

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Department of Justice • domestic surveillance • surveillance • National Security Agency • warrantless wiretapping • intercept

Obama May Keep CIA Torture Memos Classified

Bush-era docs give
OK for waterboarding

Apr 15, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration faces a tough call on whether to declassify Bush-era Justice Department memos that outline harsh CIA interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, the Wall Street Journal reports. The president is still reviewing internal arguments but is leaning toward keeping the most sensitive documents classified, insiders say. More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • terrorism • interrogation • waterboarding • Obama administration • President Obama

Holder Changes Ethics Boss at Justice Dept.

Move comes one day after judge's criticism over Stevens case

Apr 8, 09 3:42 PM CDT
(AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder says he's shifting some office heads at the Justice Department and putting a career Washington prosecutor in charge of the internal ethics unit. Mary Patrice Brown will lead the Office of Professional Responsibility, which drew criticism from a federal judge this week for the handling of... More »

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ethics • Department of Justice • Ted Stevens • federal judges • Eric Holder • President Obama

OPINION

In Stevens Case, Justice Was Served After All

Ruling in court of public opinion trumps court
of law's dismissal

Apr 8, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Stevens and his lawyers were awfully indignant yesterday for a crew that had just won. “You’d think there would be jubilation,” said Stevens’ attorney. Instead, “it was revulsion, revulsion turned to anger,” Brendan Sullivan raged. Stevens himself lamented that “consequences…can never be... More »

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Department of Justice • corruption • prosecutorial misconduct • Ted Stevens • justice • Brendan Sullivan • Brenda Morris • Dana Milbank • William Welch

Judge Nixes Stevens Conviction, Targets Feds

Vows prosecutors will face contempt charges

Apr 7, 09 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Washington judge officially set aside Ted Stevens' conviction today, and vowed to pursue criminal contempt charges against the Justice Department prosecutors who bungled the case against the former senator, Politico reports. Emmet Sullivan berated prosecutors for withholding potentially crucial evidence: “In 25 years on the bench, I have... More »

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Department of Justice • corruption • Ted Stevens • Emmet Sullivan

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