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Patriot Act unbound
CounterPunch by Marjorie Cohn 03/12/07 Last year, Republican Senator Arlen Specter slipped a clause into the reauthorized USA Patriot Act that allows Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint U.S.... ...
Justice officials will be asked to testify in firings
Knoxville News Sentinel 03/08/07 The Senate Judiciary Committee will ask several Justice Department officials to testify about the firing of eight federal prosecutors and could issue subpoenas if they... ...
Fired US Prosecutors Felt Threatened by Republican Lawmakers
Thomas D. Williams reports that four US attorneys testified before Congress Tuesday that they believed they were forced to resign for improper reasons. An email from one of the US attorneys, Arkansas's... ...
Don’t lean on me
Mother Jones by Leigh Ferrara 03/06/07 Last spring, an amendment was slipped into a bill reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act by Senator Arlen Specter’s chief counsel, Michael O’Neill, who was reportedly acting... ...
House Judiciary Committee Issues More Subpoenas in US Attorney Probe
The Justice Department said Monday that Republican Senator Pete Domenici called Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his deputy four times to complain about a US attorney who claims he was fired for not... ...
FBI Translating Over 1,000 Wiretap Conversations a Day
In a widely overlooked report to the Senate Judiciary Committee in November, bureau officials ticked off their counterterrorism take over the past four years: 519,217 hours of audio. 5,508,217 electronic... ...
Fired Prosecutor Disputes Justice Department Allegation
The comments by former US attorney John McKay add to a growing tide of criticism of the Justice Department's decision to fire seven top prosecutors without explanation, and they came on the same day the... ...
US Attorney Firings Set Stage for Congressional Battle
A little-noticed provision passed last year allows Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to appoint interim US attorneys indefinitely without seeking approval from the Senate. Fearing an attempted end run... ...
Justice Department to release court orders on spy program
Iron Mountain Daily News 02/01/07 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales expanded Congress' access Wednesday to classified documents detailing the government's domestic spying program but still didn't satisfy... ...
Senators Assert Right to Block Bush on Iraq
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee began laying the constitutional groundwork today for an effort to block President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq and place new limits on the conduct... ...