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By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Jan. 4) -- In a sick twist of fate, a federal court officer was shot and killed and a U.S. marshal was wounded in Las Vegas this morning around the same time the Department of Justice released a report saying that threats against federal judges, U.S. attorneys and U.S. assistant attorneys have more than doubled since 2003. In 2003 there were 592 registered threats, while in 2008 the number jumped to 1,278, according to the report. The U.S. Marshals Service has the primary responsibility for defending and protecting federal court officials and proceedings. But today's report charges that ...
Washington Post: Karl Rove Mischaracterized His Role in Attorney Firings
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyWhen the dust settled after the Bush administration's firing of U.S. attorneys in 2006 that resulted eventually in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigning, Karl Rove painted his own role as a middleman who just passed messages along. Now, Rove is delivering testimony on the firings behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, after a protracted legal battle over whether he would need to testify at all. And The Washington Post reports that Rove's role was greater than he previously suggested, according to emails it obtained and interviews with key participants. Says the Post:In an ...
No Charges For Gonzales in Attorneys Purge
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThe Washington Post reports that Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine will not refer former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to a federal grand jury for his role in the U.S. Attorneys purge. A report, written by another official in the department, however, calls for a prosecutor to investigate the firings. According to report, current Attorney General Michael Mukasey will name a prosecutor from within the department. The controversy over the firings began in December of 2006, when eight U.S. attorneys were fired. Though firing U.S. Attorneys is the prerogative of the President, ...
Judge Rules WH Aides Must Testify
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA federal district court judge ruled today in the case of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, saying that the two must appear in response to Congressional subpoenas. Judge John Bates rejected the Bush Administration's claim of Executive privilege for current and former advisers to the president. "The executive's current claim of absolute immunity from compelled Congressional process for senior presidential aides is without any support in the case law," he wrote.Democrats on the House Judiciary committee issued subpoenas to Bolten and Miers ...
No 'Wackos' Allowed
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyIf you're considered a "wacko," a "wack job," or a liberal, the Justice Department in 2006 likely had no interest in you working at the agency.The Justice Department's inspector general today released a report that found that the DOJ, under President Bush, inappropriately injected politics into hiring programs. Problems were found in hiring practices during 2002 - when John Ashcroft was attorney general - and in 2006, under Alberto Gonzales. 2006 was apparently full of many more flagrant violations of the law and department policy. "We found that in 2006 the Screening Committee inappropriately ...
Rove Denies Tampering With Investigation
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyKarl Rove, subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee last week to answer questions in a long running Congressional investigation into alleged politicization and misuse of the Justice Department by the Bush Administration, denied on Sunday that he had anything to do with a Department probe into former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Siegelman was convicted on bribery charges in 2006 and sentenced to seven years in Federal prison. He was released to pursue an appeal of the conviction after an appeals court found "serious questions" about the case.Rove is also sought by the House to answer ...
Rove Subpoenaed
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers today issued a subpoena to the man dubbed "Bush's brain" about the politicization of the Department of Justice in the Bush administration.That "brain" would be none other than former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. Rove's lawyer sent a letter to the congressional committee yesterday saying his client wouldn't testify voluntarily. "Contrary to your letter of May 14, 2008, I do not misunderstand either the Committee's procedures or the scope of its interest in Mr. Rove; nor, in light of your reported remarks about the need for ...
Gonzales' Resume Just Isn't Working
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyFormer Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is also feeling the pinch of quasi-unemployment these days. Lawyers and his associates inside the Beltway tell The New York Times that Gonzales, who was forced to resign last year amid the dismissed attorneys scandal, hasn't been able to get any law firms to bite on his resume. Gonzales' experience should be enough for firms to be chomping at the bit. We've all heard his personal story - the son of poor Mexican immigrants makes his way through the Texas public school system, then goes on to Rice University and Harvard Law School. He has won numerous ...
White House: E-Mail Recovery Plan 'Fruitless'
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThe U.S. attorney purge of 2006 spawned several mini-scandals. One of them is a controversy over missing Bush administration email. Over five million e-mails sent via a non-government domain, which is not legal, have not been accounted for by the White House. They're probably not going to be. Yesterday, the White House disclosed in federal court that older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed. They argued that a recovery plan ordered by the court would be "fruitless." ...
Contempt Votes for Two White House Officials
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe House of Representatives will take up contempt of Congress charges today for one current and one former Bush Administration officials in its continuing investigation into the firing of eight United States Attorneys last year. The officials, White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, and former White House Counsel and Supreme Court Justice nominee Harriet Miers, stand accused by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) of failing to cooperate with subpoenas ordering them to appear before his committee.In a statement in advance of the votes, Conyers said that the contempt ...
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