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• Alberto Gonzales Wont Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 679
  By GottaLaff Bush made me do it! Its his fault. I just followed orders: Alberto Gonzales, pilloried for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program, has been exonerated — sort of. According to public records and interviews with federal ...
  2 days ago

• Bush Campaign Veterans Make Electoral Comeback

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 750
  Tim Griffin, Barbara Comstock and Karl Rove (Tim Griffin for Congress, Comstock for Delegate, White House photo) For a candidate making his first bid for office, Tim Griffin couldn’t be in better shape. One week after announcing his campaign against Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), the incumbent in Arkansas’s most ...
  3 days ago

• US Attorney nominee receives national scrutiny

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  The Iowa Independent has been tracking the nomination of Stephanie Rose for U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa for months, but now national media outlets have jumped into the act. The New York Times reported Sunday that Rose’s confirmation has been the subject of growing controversy: ...
  1 week ago

• Waiting to see what happens! Are you kidding?

  
  lets-talk-business — Authority: 130
  I hear this ‘plan’ more often then I choose to admit. ‘I am just going to wait and see what happens…’ And this is a plan? It’s an act of personal financial suicide. It’s no plan, it’s a decision to allow others to control your destiny. It’s avoidance at its best. It is self destruction. So why do ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rose, Klinefeldt nominations now move to full U.S. Senate

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  Two Iowa U.S. attorney’s offices are one step closer to being under new leadership. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee , of which Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley is a member with seniority, agreed today by unanimous consent to pass the nominations of Stephanie Rose and Nick Klinefeldt on to the full Senate. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Southern justice organization slams Rose’s U.S. attorney nomination

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  Stephanie Rose A social justice organization that has primarily been active in Louisiana and Texas has taken a stand against the woman nominated to be the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa . Friends of Justice , a nonprofit organized in the wake of a 1999 Tulia drug sting in Texas, issued a ...
  3 weeks ago

• 11/5 – GLOV Forum with US Attorneys Office @ Foundry United Methodist Church

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 532
  Join GLOV for an important community forum on anti-gay violence in DC . Representatives from the United States Attorneys Office (USAO) in the Department of Justice will join with members of the DC LGBT community on Thursday for the event. The purpose of this forum is to share ideas and information, to learn how ...
  3 weeks ago

• Iglesias: Evidence Of Politicization By Arizona Sheriff "Felt Very Familiar"

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  David Iglesias is comparing Sheriff Joe Arpaios alleged targeting of political foes to the notorious Rove-Gonzales politicization of DOJ, which led to Iglesiass own improper firing. The evidence against the Arizona sheriff was "very similar to what was going on at the Department of Justice under the Bush ...
  3 weeks ago

• Report: FBI Probing Controversial Arizona Sheriff For "Investigating" Political Foes

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the hard-line anti-immigration Arizona sheriff, is being probed by the FBI for allegedly using his authority to retaliate against political adversaries, sources tell a local TV station . One of the key cases cited by Phoenix-based KPHO is one we told you about recently, in which a ...
  3 weeks ago

• U.S. Attorney Who Played Role In Firings Scandal To Step Down -- Congressional Bid Next?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  Mary Beth Buchanan, the Bush-appointed federal prosecutor who had a cameo in the U.S. attorney firings scandal and was charged with pursuing politically motivated prosecutions, is stepping down . Buchanan, a Republican, is said to be mulling a run for Congress against incumbent Democrat Rep. Jason Altmire. In a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Could Coal Lobby Chief Be Probed For Perjury?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  Could apparently false statements made by the head of a coal-industry lobby group before Congress this morning end up being referred to the Justice Department for a criminal perjury probe? Congressional investigators arent ruling it out. As we reported , Steve Miller, the director of the American Coalition for ...
  4 weeks ago

• First openly gay US attorney begins job in Washington State

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 679
  When I get grumbly and cranky over Obama not doing some stuff, I have to remember this kind of thing would have never happened under McCain. Sometimes you have to celebrate the little victories as well. SEATTLE -- The new top federal prosecutor in Seattle knows the significance her role carries for many people: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Did FOIA Request On Financial Ties To Christie Prompt Top Aides Departure?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  Hat tip Marcy Wheeler at Firedoglake... Did Chris Christies top aide resign as a top prosecutor this summer in order to prevent information about her financial ties to Christie from becoming public? Lets look at the facts: It was reported on August 17 that Michele Brown had in 2007 received an unreported ...
  4 weeks ago

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