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...
NYT: We didn’t aid feds or detainee lawyers in leak case
The New York Times is putting out word that its reporters did not provide any information to the Justice Department in connection with the investigation that led to former CIA officer John Kiriakou being charged with leaking the identities of CIA inter...
King: Name journalists & lawyers who got leaks
House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) is urging the Justice Department to name the journalists who allegedly received leaks from ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou and to identify the lawyers who used leaked information to give terror suspects...
In 2006, Gingrich backed censoring the web
At Thursday night's debate in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich painted himself as a friend of a free and open Internet, but in the past he's talked up pretty radical proposals to curtail free speech online.
The question Thursday was about the Sto...
Federal prosecutor to take 5th Amendment in Fast and Furious probe
A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before a House committee next week looking into the Justice Department's handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, the pro...
Another officer recommends court martial for Bradley Manning
Another military officer has formally recommended that Army Pfc. Bradley Manning face a full-scale court martial for allegedly leaking thousands of military reports and diplomatic cables to the online transparency site WikiLeaks.
Col. Carl Coffman, th...
What Obama’s first ad doesn’t say
President Barack Obama's first foray into TV advertising for the 2012 campaign came Thursday in the form of a 30-second spot defending the administration's energy policies, which have been under attack in millions of dollars-worth of attac...
Feds: Ex-NSA analyst had top-secret-plus info on home computers
Computers seized from a retired National Security Agency analyst's home in 2007 contained information that is classified at a level beyond "top secret," officials said in court filings Tuesday.
A prosecutor and a senior NSA official...
Man indicted for attempting to kill Barack Obama
An Idaho man was indicted Tuesday for attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama by opening fire on the White House last November.
A grand jury at U.S. District Court in Washington also charged Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, 21, with a total of 17...
One manager who soured on Bain
A story we posted Friday night found Bain Capital-related attacks on Mitt Romney were getting little traction in South Carolina, but I did come across one manager of a Bain-owned factory there who came away from the experience less than enthused about ...
One manager who soured on Bain
A story we posted Friday night found Bain Capital-related attacks on Mitt Romney were getting little traction in South Carolina, but I did come across one manager of a Bain-owned factory there who came away from the experience less than enthused about ...
