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By Chris Good, The Hill Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) told Vice President Dick Cheney to “resign or face impeachment” Thursday night as three more House Democrats lent their support to a plan to impeach the vice president. “The vice president holds himself above the law, and it is time for the Congress to enforce the…
Missing Tape of Padilla Interrogation Raises Questions
The Associated Press A videotape showing Pentagon officials’ final interrogation of al-Qaida suspect Jose Padilla is missing, raising questions about whether federal prosecutors have lost other recordings and evidence in the case. The tape is classified, but Padilla’s attorneys said they believe something happened during that interrogation that could explain why Padilla does not trust…
A tangled web in attorney firings
JUSTICE DEPT. OFFICIAL INVOLVED IN ATTORNEY FIRINGS RESIGNS By Jerry Zremski, Buffalo News Michael A. Battle, formerly the top federal prosecutor in Buffalo and now a senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice…on Monday announced that he plans to leave the Justice Department for private practice but stressed that his resignation was not connected…
Democrats Takes Step Toward Contempt Against Bolten
by Robert Schmidt July 19 (Bloomberg) — House Democrats, escalating a battle with the White House, took the first step in seeking to hold President George W. Bush’s chief of staff in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena requesting documents on the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors. Voting 7-3 along party lines, a House…
Justice Department anti-terror stats inaccurate
By Lara Lakes Jordan, Associated Press Feb 21, 2007 height=”96″ alt=”cheney_terror_alert.jpg”Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11, despite no evidence linking them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said today. Overall, nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics on investigations, referrals and cases…
Asheville, North Carolina resident calls for impeachment
Asheville Citizen-Times Impeachment drive is dead serious and mounting by Leslie Armstrong I’m not a political junkie and, yes, I do have a life. So, why did I leave the mountains and spend my limited financial resources to travel to Washington recently to endure oppressive heat and risk arrest? I did so because my concerns…
