Boston’s Chief Judge: OPR Isn’t Doing Its Job The Chief Judge in Boston just sent Michael Mukasey a letter suggesting DOJ’s process for investigating and responding to misconduct from government prosecutors isn’t working. The chief federal judge in Boston has urged the new US attorney general to crack down on prosecutors who commit misconduct and […]
Why I Believe Bush Must Go Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse. by George McGovern … Impeachment is unlikely, of course. But we must still urge Congress to act. Impeachment, quite simply, is the procedure written into the Constitution to deal with presidents who violate the Constitution and the laws of the land. It […]
President Bush and Vice President Cheney declared their War on America right out of the gate – even before the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York gave them the vehicle to bring it off. No more of this human rights, diversity, limits on power, equal protection under the law business for them. […]
DoJ Attorneys Damaged Secrecy Oversight, FAS Complaint Says Attorneys at the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel violated the executive order on classification and damaged oversight of the secrecy system last year when they refused to process a request from the Information Security Oversight Office for an interpretation of the order, according to a complaint […]
Our Guide in Kenya a few months ago is a very interesting guy. He’s a college educated sociologist who has been a Photo-Safari Guide ever since they outlawed Big Game hunting [30 years ago]. Throughout our trip, he talked of the coming election, the tribal politics, the sociology of it all [a sociology of […]
Voter ID Court Challenges Expected to Have Big Impact on 2008 Elections A pair of closely watched voting rights cases headed to the Supreme Court next week could have a greater effect on the 2008 elections than anything happening in Iowa or New Hampshire. The high court will hear oral arguments Jan. 9 in two […]
Will Justice Go After Cheney? By Dan Froomkin Thursday, January 3, 2008; 12:46 PM How high will the newly-launched criminal investigation into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation tapes go? And will it eventually target Vice President Cheney? Cheney has been the administration’s central figure on all things related to torture. It was Cheney who pushed […]