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Attorney Generals office clarifies 53-foot rule for trailers in North Carol
2008-03-05 04:08:00 The assistant attorney general in North Carolina has issued an advisory letter to enforcement officials to say that 53-foot trailers are allowed on certain highways in the state. The advisory from Assistant Attorney General Ebony Pittman is the latest step in a battle about commerce, safety and bringing North Carolina in line with 30 other states ...
Conflict Over Executive Privilege Looms
2007-06-18 04:00:00 LegalTimes.com reports:Congressional Democrats have always believed that the Justice Department's plan to fire eight US attorneys began in the White House, and last week they proved willing to take their investigation to its doorstep by subpoenaing two former Bush aides.... ...Many legal observers say the subpoenas are more likely to force the White House to find some sort of middle ground - even if it takes a protracted legal fight to get there...."Technorati tags: Legal Times, Congress, Executive Privilege, Democrats, Attorney Generals, US Justice Department, news
Official Close to Attorney FIrings Quits
2007-06-17 05:29:00 The Houston Chronicle reports: "A senior Justice Department official who helped carry out the dismissals of federal prosecutors said Friday he is resigning. Mike Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, is the fifth Justice official to leave after being linked to the dismissals of the prosecutors. Elston was accused of threatening at least four of the eight fired U.S. attorneys to keep quiet about their ousters.......House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers said the resignation raises a red flag for investigators."When yet another significant player resigns in the U.S. attorney scandal, it only deepens the mystery of who targeted U.S. attorneys for firing, why they did it, and what exactly is going on in the highest reaches of the Justice Department and who is filling the vacuum of leadership that has developed there," said Conyers, D-Mich.As McNulty's top aide, Elston's duties included overseeing the government's 93 U.S. attorneys nationwide. Elston help...
Sunday Late-Night Reader
2007-06-04 06:00:00 DOJ Probes Turn to Civil Rights Division | LegalTimes.com:The Civil Rights Division has emerged as the latest lightning rod for allegations that the Justice Department has become politicized during the Bush administration.Congress Wants Ashcroft's Testimony | Newsweek | Isikoff: "The House and Senate Intelligence Committees have asked the former attorney general to testify about his role in a dramatic showdown over a controversial eavesdropping program. Will he play ball? ..."White House Follows New Path To Secrecy:"A newly disclosed effort to keep Vice President Dick Cheney's visitor records secret is the latest White House push to make sure the public doesn't learn who has been meeting with top officials in the Bush administration. Over the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Cheney have directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor entry and exit logs, declaring them to be presidential records, exempt from a law requiring their disclosure to whoe...
More Adventures in Rovian Corruption
2007-06-04 05:24:00 (Click For Larger View)Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor | TIME:"In the rough and tumble of Alabama politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. At the moment, the state's former Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, stands convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and faces a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Siegelman has long claimed that his prosecution was driven by politically motivated, Republican-appointed US attorneys. Now Karl Rove, the President's top political strategist, has been implicated in the controversy...."Jason Leopold | An Interview With David IglesiasIn an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with Truthout, David Iglesias, the former US attorney for New Mexico, who was fired in December along with seven other US attorneys for reasons that appear to have been motivated by partisan politics, said he believes a "smoking gun" exists that will lead directly to Karl Rove and blow the scandal wide open. "I believe somewhere on an RNC co...
Myspace won?t bend over for Attorney Generals
2007-05-18 00:00:00 On Monday, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and seven other state attorneys general called on MySpace to hand over the names of sex offenders who have made profiles on the most popular social networking site in America and explain what steps the company has taken to alert law enforcement and users who corresponded with ...
The Firing of NM Attorney David Iglesias
2007-05-17 06:02:00 "On a single day, December 7, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demanded the resignations of 8 United States Attorneys. What was really the purpose of the firings - and who was behind it? Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports...."MUST READ AND/OR SEE: Transcript, mp3, and video available at Democracy Now!Photo Credit: David C. Iglesias, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico. (ncjrs.gov)Also See:Congress demands e-mails, Justice says ask Rove campTechnorati tags: Greg Palast, David Iglesias, Attorney Generals, Alberto Gonzales, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, news, video
Number of Fired Prosecutors Grows
2007-05-10 17:50:00 The Washington Post reports:"The former U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., Todd P. Graves, said yesterday that he was asked to step down from his job by a senior Justice Department official in January 2006, months before eight other federal prosecutors would be fired by the Bush administration.Graves said he was told simply that he should resign to "give another person a chance." He said he did not oppose the department's request, because he had already been planning to return to private practice. He did appeal to Missouri's senior senator to try to persuade the White House to allow him to remain long enough to prosecute a final, important case -- involving the slaying of a pregnant woman and kidnapping of her 8-month fetus. Justice officials rejected the request.The former prosecutor's disclosure, in an interview on the eve of a second appearance today by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales before lawmakers investigating the firings, means that the administration began moving t...
Not Ready for Prime Time News
2007-05-07 06:55:00 You may have missed the following news stories while wading through the muck of "news" disguised as diversion and propaganda. The truth is often out there; but you have to turn off Faux News and dig for it."Few notice huge shift towards globalization as frothing masses distracted by climate change debate" US and EU agree 'single market' The United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership at a summit in Washington. EU/US Merger: New Global Order By Stealth In a sweeping move that has garnered surprisingly little attention this week the United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership that will see regulatory standards "harmonized" and will lay the basis for a merging of the US and EU into one single market, a huge step on the path to a new globalized world order. The Truth About IranIran Open To Iraq Meeting, Willing To Improve U.S. RelationsIranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki sa...
Attorney Generals Resignation Imminent
2007-03-20 20:11:00 My White House sources tell me the resignation of the Attorney General and naming of his replacement could come as early as Friday. “The vetting process is already underway” A reliable insider reported to me during a weekend phone conversation. The President was said to be “furious” that the controversy over the dismissal of the ... |
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