by Gina Marie Cheeseman, Opednews.com …The simple fact remains that you cannot win an illegal war. When President Bush took the Presidential Oath of Office during his inauguration, he pledged to “guard against presidential excess or wrongdoing.” He also pledged to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” If the president “intentionally”…
Michael Rolston, rawstory.com Top White House political adviser Karl Rove coached a Justice Department staff member before he testified to a Congressional commitee in March, according to a report in Newsweek. Some investigators reportedly believe that he may have tried to “mislead” Congress. “Although the existence of the White House meeting had been previously disclosed…
By Dan Froomkin, washingtonpost.com Yesterday brought considerably more evidence of direct White House involvement in the overt politicization of the Justice Department — not only in terms of purging U.S. attorneys who may have been considered insufficiently partisan in their pursuit of criminal cases, but also in terms of filling career positions with attorneys who…
By William Fisher, t r u t h o u t A Justice Department proposal to limit lawyers’ access to the nearly 400 detainees at Guantanamo Bay is drawing sharp criticism from much of the legal community in the US. In a court filing, the DOJ claimed that the lawyers’ use of mail to communicate…
