Cheney won't tell how much he keeps secret
By Mark Silva / Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON — As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as "top secret" or "confidential," one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. A standing executive order, strengthened by ...
9/11 Detainees in New Jersey Say They Were Abused With Dogs
By Nina Bernstein / New York Times The photograph, seen worldwide, is one of the defining images from Abu Ghraib: a dog strains at its leash, lunging at a terrified prisoner in an orange jumpsuit. One United States military dog handler was recently convicted of abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib, ...
Libby's lawyers ask to dismiss perjury case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, who faces perjury charges, asked a judge on Thursday to throw out the case on the grounds that the prosecutor was appointed improperly. Since both Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former Attorney General John Ashcroft removed themselves from ...
White House: Rove considered Abramoff a 'casual acquaintance'
(Washington-AP, February 13, 2006) - Three former associates of Jack Abramoff said Monday that the now-disgraced lobbyist frequently told them during his lobbying work he had strong ties to the White House through presidential confidant Karl Rove. The White House said Monday that Rove remembers meeting Abramoff at a 1990s ...
Senate toughens scrutiny of wiretapping
By Gail Russell Chaddock / Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON - In open hearings and behind closed doors, the Senate this week opened a broad - and often tense - dialogue with the Bush administration over the president's wartime powers. It's more than just a probe into who authorized what, when, ...
GOP senators add heat on spying
Specter urges AG to get court review By Charlie Savage / Boston Globe WASHINGTON -- Four Republican senators yesterday joined Democrats in challenging Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's insistence that President Bush broke no law when he authorized the military to spy on Americans' international phone calls and e-mails in a ...
Gonzales Faces Tough Questions on Spying
By Katherine Shrader / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted Monday that President Bush was "acting with authority" both under the Constitution and federal law in eavesdropping on Americans without warrants as part of the war on terror. But his strong defense of Bush's program was challenged ...
Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Suicide Law
By Gina Holland / Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the Bush administration's attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die, protecting Oregon's one-of-a-kind assisted-suicide law. It was the first loss for Chief Justice John Roberts, who joined the court's most conservative members — ...
Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Suicide Law
By Gina Holland / Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, with Chief Justice John Roberts dissenting, upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die. Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said the 1997 Oregon law used to ...
Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
By Jason Leopold / t r u t h o u t The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a ...
Specter Seeks AG's Testimony on Spying
By Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify during open hearings on the legality of the Bush administration's domestic spying program. A prominent conservative on the committee said he is troubled ...
Abramoff Pleads Guilty, Will Cooperate
By Mark Sherman and Curt Anderson / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud, agreeing to cooperate in an influence-peddling investigation that threatens powerful members of Congress. In a heavily scripted court appearance, Abramoff agreed with ...
After 9/11, Bush and Cheney pressed for more power and got it. Now, predictably, the questions begin. Behind the NSA spying furor. Newsweek Jan. 9, 2006 issue - The talk at the White House in the days and weeks after 9/11 was all about suitcase nukes and germ warfare and ...
Justice Deputy Resisted Parts of Spy Program
By Eric Lichtblau and James Risen / New York Times WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 - A top Justice Department official objected in 2004 to aspects of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program and refused to sign on to its continued use amid concerns about its legality and oversight, according to ...
Bush Says Domestic Surveillance 'Limited'
By Deb Reichmann / Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush is standing firmly behind his domestic spying program, saying his decision to let the intelligence community listen in on phone calls Americans have with suspected terrorists is lawful and does not result in widespread domestic eavesdropping. Bush, whose decision is ...
Justice Department Didn't Act on Warning About Abramoff Client
Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Justice Department never acted on a post-Sept. 11 proposal, contested by lobbyist Jack Abramoff, calling for increased federal control over immigration to the Mariana Islands. The agency reassigned the two officials who produced a 34- page report that contained the proposal, and House members ...
Poll: Few doubt wrongdoing in CIA leak
Neighbor questioned with prosecutor's grand jury set to expire (CNN) -- Only one in 10 Americans said they believe Bush administration officials did nothing illegal or unethical in connection with the leaking of a CIA operative's identity, according to a national poll released Tuesday. Thirty-nine percent said some administration officials ...
For all you folks out there in the White House Press Corps, could you please ask Scott McClellan what his definition of “is” is? You see, George and his Press Secretary may have been a little over-zealous a couple years ago in their comments about the Valerie Plame leak. They ...
A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed
By Tom Hamburger and Sonni Efron / Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Toward the end of a steamy summer week in 2003, reporters were peppering the White House with phone calls and e-mails, looking for someone to defend the administration's claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. About to ...
Rove and Ashcroft face new allegations in the Valerie Plame affair By Murray Waas / Village Voice Justice Department officials made the crucial decision in late 2003 to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the leak of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame in large part because investigators ...
U.S. Defends Detentions at Airports
By Nina Bernstein / New York Times Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court ...
With Starr, Roberts Pushed Reagan Agenda
By David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — For many years, the solicitor general was known as the "10th justice," a trusted figure who advised the Supreme Court on the law and whose client was the United States. But midway through the Reagan administration, the office took on ...
Atty. Gen. Gonzales Responds to Frank Rich's '12-Hour Gap' Charge
By E&P Staff / Editor & Publisher NEW YORK Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, responding to a strong charge in a column by Frank Rich in The New York Times’ today, said there was nothing improper about waiting 12 hours to “preserve all materials” after being informed by the Justice Department ...
Libraries Say Yes, Officials Do Quiz Them About Users
By Eric Lichtblau / New York Times WASHINGTON, June 19 - Law enforcement officials have made at least 200 formal and informal inquiries to libraries for information on reading material and other internal matters since October 2001, according to a new study that adds grist to the growing debate in ...
Inaction in New York Prison Abuse Stirs Anger
Justice officials called the treatment of immigrants after 9/11 outrageous. The Bureau of Prisons has not held anyone to account. By Richard B. Schmitt and Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — It was the first prison abuse scandal of the post-Sept. 11 era, when scores of immigrants ...
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