Holder: CIA interrogation probe nearing end
The Justice Department's investigation into the deaths of two detainees in Central Intelligence Agency custody should conclude soon, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday.
Holder made no mention of proceeding with prosecut...
Holder: CIA interrogation probe nearing end
The Justice Department's investigation into the deaths of two detainees in Central Intelligence Agency custody should conclude soon, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday.
Holder made no mention of proceeding with prosecut...
Anna Getty may have renounced U.S. citizenship
Another heir to the Getty oil fortune, Anna Getty, has cut permanent ties to the U.S. and may have renounced her citizenship, according to a government report published Thursday.
As the U.S. presidential campaign is rife with debate over issues of tax...
Paper notches win in fight for FBI informant’s file
A Memphis newspaper won a round Tuesday in its battle for access to the FBI's files on a famous civil rights era photographer who reportedly spied on top civil rights leaders for the agency in the 1960s.
A federal judge also gave the Justice Depar...
Senators push administration on cybersecurity
In an effort to dramatize the threat of cyberterrorism and, perhaps, grab the attention of the White House, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) spun a gloomy hypothetical Tuesday about President Barack Obama’s speech this summer to the Democratic Natio...
Feinstein tweaks Obama administration for secrecy breaches
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein is steamed with the Obama administration over its public comments about the ostensibly classified armed drone operation that the Central Intelligence Agency runs in Pakistan.
Feinstein didn't...
Oversight Democrats stress gunwalking’s history
A new report from the Democratic staff of the main House committee investigating Operation Fast and Furious stresses that federal law enforcement officials in Arizona relied on the investigative tactic of gunwalking as far back as 2006 and used it in t...
Court upholds conviction in Sarah Palin e-mail hack
A federal appeals court has rejected the appeal of a University of Tennessee college student who was convicted of hacking into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account during the 2008 campaign.
Lawyers for ...
NBC legally obliged to run Romney ad it wanted pulled
An NBC-owned TV station is reportedly continuing to air a Mitt Romney ad that the network has asked Romney to pull, prompting charges of hypocrisy.
But the situation isn't particularly surprising since broadcasters are legally required to run...
W.H. to journalists: You’re obsolete
The White House's drive to embrace new media and technology will achieve nirvana next week as President Barack Obama participates in what his aides are proudly billing as the "first completely-virtual interview from the White House."...
President’s peeps punting to Chicago
President Barack Obama's official White House mouthpieces seem to have decided to punt — or at least redirect — politically loaded questions to Obama's campaign operation in Chicago.
Last month, I reported on ho...
Chuck Grassley’s slam of OLC chief rankles some
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has rankled some prominent lawyers by declaring that a senior Justice Department official's controversial legal opinion on recess appointments has probably ruined her chances of ever being confirmed again by the Se...

