Unionleader.com Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are pressing for information linking the executive branch to the 2002 New Hampshire “phone jamming” scheme. U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes commended the Democrats for their letter to Acting Attorney General Peter D. Keisler, which seeks details of any Department of Justice inquiries into the plot to tie up…
David Edwards and Nick Juliano, Raw Story Ciara Durkin warned her family before returning to Afghanistan, “If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated.” What seemed a joke at the time could have been eerily prescient as Durkin, a National Guard specialist, was found dead, shot once in the head, within…
By Damon Poeter, CMP Channel When Congress asked about 5 million executive branch e-mails that went missing, a White House lawyer pointed the finger at an outside IT contractor. The only problem? No such IT contractor exists, according to sources close to the investigation of a possible violation of the Federal Records and Presidential Records…
By Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen, New York Times When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February…
