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Americans working in Iraq for Halliburton spin-off KBR have been outraged by the massive fraud they saw there. Dozens are suing the giant military contractor, on the taxpayers' behalf. Whose side is the Justice Department on?
The Justice Department under the Bush administration has retreated from prosecutions of mobsters, white-collar criminals, environmental crimes and traditional civil rights infractions, new department data show.
American Electric Power has agreed to cut 813,000 tons of air pollutants annually at an estimated cost of more than $4.6 billion, pay a $15 million penalty, and spend $60 million on projects to mitigate the adverse effects of its past excess emissions.
If the legal issues that have most preoccupied Washington the past six years are suggestive, then President Bush has found the right man to be Attorney General in Michael Mukasey.
It's easy to smear a reputation, hard to restore it.
The government's legal arguments justifying the detention of hundreds of people at the Guantánamo Bay naval base have been repudiated three times by the U.S. Supreme Court. But it's not just outsiders who take issue with the U.S.
Paul Clement, the solicitor-general of the United States, will step in as acting attorney general when Alberto Gonzales finishes boxing up his memories on September 17.
As part of an ongoing investigation into the sale and distribution of such "circumvention devices," U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from 22 offices said they raided businesses, storefronts and residents in 16 states on Wednesday.
Ok, this the only good thing this guy has done is to provide comedy gold with his internets comments.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied Tuesday that he and former White House chief of staff Andy Card tried to exploit then-Attorney General John Ashcroft's frail condition by pressuring him to recertify President Bush's intelligence-gathering program during a now-famous 2004 …
Republicans aren't exactly racing to defend President Bush's assertion of executive privilege against Congress's investigation of his firing of nine U.S. attorneys.
The Justice Department has filed a civil complaint in federal court in Miami seeking the forfeiture of approximately $110 million in proceeds from Italian public corruption offenses that were allegedly laundered in the United States.
Utilizing deceptive tactics to acquire citizens phone records, an anti-terrorism team known as the Communications Analysis Unit is under criminal investigation in what is the first such criminal probe for misuse of the investigative powers provided under The Patriot Act.
President George W. Bush did not consult with the Justice Department or special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald before commuting the sentence of former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, according to Tuesday's Washington Post.
What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care?
The man behind the secret hold has now revealed himself: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ). Kyl's excuse for placing a hold on the bill? Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department opposes several provisions:
The revelations coming from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week were startling.
WASHINGTON — For more than 15 years, clean-cut, square-jawed Tom Heffelfinger was the embodiment of a tough Republican prosecutor. Named U.S. attorney for Minnesota in 1991, he won a series of high-profile white-collar crime and gun and explosives cases.
WASHINGTON - It was two years ago this week that firefighter Michael Childress' heart quit on him at his firehouse in rural Randolph County, N.C.
The connection between the current U.S. attorneys scandal, the disputed elections of 2000 and 2004 and the cover-up of missing emails are explored in contrast of the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's resignation. Why aren't we talking about impeachment?
The Justice Department's Public Integrity Section is investigating connections between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House, a probe that may be affected by missing White House emails.
WASHINGTON - Allegations that politics improperly influenced the Bush administration's decision to fire eight U.S.
"Democrats have long seen Rove - the guru of President Bush and Republican Party successes - as having too heavy a hand in the operations of federal agencies in ways that unduly injected politics into policy.
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