National security letters were improperly used in 2006 to spy on Americans and obtain private financial and communications data, Federal FBI Director William Mueller testified today before the Senate Judiciary…
An English travel agent who lives in Spain and sells Cuban trips to Europeans has been snagged by the long arm of the U.S. Treasury Department, which put his websites…
Attorney General Michael Mukasey says the Justice Department won’t seek the prosecution of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers.
In 2005, Sen. John McCain helped pave the way for confirmation of two U.S. Supreme Court justices and other conservative judges by helping stop a vote on whether to ban…
A second Department of Justice investigation, in addition to the one launched last month by Attorney General Michael Mukasey, has been under way for “several years” concerning the propriety of…
Conspiracy theorists, fasten your seat belts. A document found with other items about a year ago in an old safe in a Dallas courthouse bolsters the theory that President John…
Following a Congressional hearing earlier this week in which some observers felt committee members took sides along party lines with famed pitcher Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee,…
The House has voted to hold former White House counsel Harriet Miers and chief of staff Josh Bolten in contempt for failing to cooperate in a probe of the firing…
A federal judge has cited the state secrets privilege in dismissing a lawsuit that contends a Boeing subsidiary helped the CIA transport prisoners to overseas prisons for torture.
Although he is most famous as a U.S. president elected—and assassinated—during the Civil War era, Abraham Lincoln practiced law as an Illinois attorney for 25 years.
A day after CIA director Michael Hayden admitted in testimony before Congress that the Bush administration had used the so-called waterboarding technique on three al-Qaida suspects, a White House spokesman…
The Department of Justice is seeking substantially to increase federal funding of efforts to combat gang-related crime blamed for much of the violence that occurs throughout the nation.
Several prominent Republican lawyers are shifting their support to Mitt Romney after Fred Thompson’s withdrawal from the presidential race, two political blogs report. Many have ties to U.S. Supreme Court…
Backers of a White House effort to extend the administration’s wiretap authority killed an alternate bill in the Senate yesterday that would have given a special court greater surveillance oversight.
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