Justice Department - First thoughts about

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also referred to as the Justice Department, is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.

Supreme Court Attorney General Eric Holder White House President Barack Obama President Obama United States Voting Rights Act Wall Street Aaron Swartz Eric Holder New York John Brennan Shelby County Justice Antonin Scalia Drug Enforcement Administration

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday planned to introduce legislation to break up banks that have grown so big that the Justice Department fears the financial system would be at risk if criminal charges were filed. Rep. Brad Sherman proposed a companion bill in the House.

Justice Department agreed to issue '2511 letters' immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act, according to new documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Read this article by Declan McCullagh on C...

Good Thursday morning! We're reading about the end of the death penalty in Maryland, the Justice Department appealing the ruling making Plan B available over the counter to anyone regardless of age, and the chilling new details of a shooting spree that was overshadowed by Newtown. Oh, and we're also TOTALLY fascinated by the Ice Cream Truck Wars of upstate New York. What are you reading this morning?

In a political asylum case involving a German family that fled to the United States to be able to homeschool their children, the U.S. Justice Department is arguing that the freedom to choose to educate one's own children is not a fundamental right. If the Romeike family, who are evangelical Christia...

Print Email Font Resize Labor secretary nominee blasted over St. Paul housing case deal By Frederick Melo fmelo 04/15/2013 12:01:00 AM CDT Updated: 04/15/2013 06:49:40 PM CDT Related St. Paul Supreme Court case Document: House Democrats respond Document: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report Labor secretary nominee blasted over St. Paul deal Justice Department's role in St. Paul's decision to drop Supreme Court case questioned U.S. House Committee seeking details over St. Paul's housing lawsuit appeal withdrawal A group of Republican lawmakers say the way President Barack Obama's nominee for Labor Secretary handled three housing discrimination lawsuits brought against the city of St. Paul should be enough to block his confirmation. The central case, Magner v. Gallagher, involved St. Paul landlords who claimed that the city overreached with its strict housing inspections, which had the serious consequence of reducing the amount of affordable housing available to racial minorities. St .. ...

Salvatore Polisi spent over fifteen years with organized crime families in New York. In 1986, he entered the "Federal Witness Protection Program". In exchange, he testified in a number of Mafia-related prosecutions. Sal's story, up to that point of his life, is retold in the book 'Sins of the Father', written by Nick Taylor. Articles about him have appeared in New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Playboy, and London's YOU Magazine. He has been interviewed by Larry King,Connie Chung, and Matt Lauer, to name a few. Sal has spoken at US Justice Department conferences, police departments, colleges, and FBI workshops - he was also the keynote speaker in "Quantico" at the FBI Academy's graduation ceremony for the class of 1989. Salvatore Polisi has been certified by the "United States Federal Court" in New York as a "crime expert" in the area of gambling, drugs, and organized crime.

Well, the Fascist tyrant, Obama, destroyer of the constitution, international laws, despot/TYRANT against whistleblowers and his fascist military, just got their comeuppance. In their attempt to classify all their war crimes, all embarrassment, they have even tried to classify Bradley Mannings voice, recording accusing the Fascist U.S. Empire of the crimes committed by Bush officials, and protected by Obama officials, especially the corrupt, criminal Justice Department. Go to Democracy Now and hear the voice of reason , of morality against the fascist, corporate, militarized democratic/republican, Western poodles committing war crimes, War criminals, now a globalized, Fascist Matrix between NATO, Western poodles and Fascist Zionism linked to U.S. EMPIRE. The military Nazis and the judge should remember that the NAZI WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS could put them on trial, instead of resistors opposed to their class/empire/military fascism.

Though he is a long way from Rand Paul's view of the world, Mark Steyn writes that he is far from sanguine about America's drone fever. He doesn't think it far-fetched that the Justice Department would deploy drones.

President Barack Obama plans to nominate Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general for Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, to become the new secretary of Labor, according to The Hill on Saturday. But several Justice Department co-workers and citizens groups believe Perez is a radical lefti...

Essential Liberty "Anonymous administration insiders claim that the president personally approves every name on the White House kill list. According to the tortured language of an undated 16-page Justice Department white paper that was leaked, 'it would be lawful for the United States to conduct a lethal operation outside the United States against a U.S. citizen who is a senior, operational leader of al-Qa'ida or an associated force of al-Qa'ida without violating the Constitution.' ... Most troubling, the white paper reduces due process to a determination made by 'an informed, high-level official of the U.S. government ... that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States.' Though the document lists other restrictions -- e.g., capture must be infeasible -- and purports to limit 'lethal operations' against American citizens to those involved with al-Qaida 'in a foreign country,' it does not define 'imminent threat' and is silent about killing citizens here at ...

Eric Holder: 'Some Banks Are Too Big to Prosecute' By Robert Borosage, AlterNet 07 March 13 or years, the Obama Administration has been pummeled for failing to bring criminal charges against a single major Wall Street bank or a single leading Wall Street banker for what the FBI termed an "epidemic of fraud" that blew up the entire economy. Investigations revealed the banks committed routine fraud in peddling mortgage securities they knew were garbage, trampled basic property laws, laundered money from Iran, Libya and Mexican drug lords, conspired to game the basic measure of interest rates and more. Yet, time after time, the Justice Department and regulatory agencies settled for sweetheart deals, with no admission of guilt, no banker held accountable, and fines that were the equivalent in earnings of a speeding ticket to the average family. Yesterday Attorney General Holder stated openly what was already apparent. The Justice Department believes that Too Big to Fail Banks are Too Big to Jail. Criminal ...

Hays Traylor Rylan Branch "Mr. President, to what level of criminality must a Bank, and its management, rise before you would be willing to allow your Justice Department to indict and prosecute it? And as an aside, why are you so zealous in prosecuting whistleblowers and reformers, but so tolerant of even extreme examples of white collar financial crime that abets unrelated, non-financial felonies?" - Senator Elizabeth Warren Hint, your nation is ran by a criminal administration. Just gangsters helping each other out.

According to an AP source, President Obama is expected to pick Thomas Perez, a civil rights official in the Justice Department, as his choice to head the Department of Labor. If confirmed, Perez would replace Hilda Solis, who resigned in January. Perez would come to the Labor Department as the president pushes a major immigration overhaul, which could include changes in how employers hire guest workers. Read more:

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2013-02-26: "The greatest triumph of the banking industry wasn't ATMs or even depositing a check via the camera of your mobile phone," notes Barry Ritholtz, a money manager and author of Bailout Nation. "It was convincing Treasury and Justice Department officials that prosecuting bankers for their crimes would destabilize the global economy." -- Barry Ritholtz, quoted by Daniel Gross in "Why Do Banks Get Away With Murder?" [ to the mailing list by Wendy Ritholtz) As usual, if there's any glitch here, the copy posted to my blog ( dglenn on Dreamwidth) should work better (and is where discussion is more likely to wind up):

Elizabeth Warren Demands Jail for HSBC 'Money Launderers' By Chris Good, ABC News 08 March 13 lizabeth Warren has a question: How much money does a bank have to launder before people go to jail? Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts and financial-regulatory maven, posed that question numerous times to financial regulators at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday on banks and money laundering. In December, U.S. Justice Department officials announced that HSBC, Europe's largest bank, would pay a $1.92 billion fine after laundering $881 million for drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia. At the time, the Justice Department disputed accusations that it views some banks as too big to prosecute. The two regulators, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen and Federal Reserve Governor Jerome H. Powell, deflected Warren's questions, saying that criminal prosecutions are for the Justice Department to decide. "If you're caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are g ...

From a concern RIslander regarding this:March 8th, 2013 • 10:22 AM Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. yesterday told the Senate Judiciary Committee, that criminal prosecutions against large banks are undesirable, because they will have a "negative impact on the national economy" and the "world economy;" in other words, he said these institutions are 'too big to jail.' Holder's remarks came in reply to a direct question by senior Committee member Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa); and now are getting hot attention. For example, today's coverage in the American Banker, the journal representing independent bankers nationally, is headlined: "How Holder's Surprising 'Too Big to Jail' Admission Changes Debate." Holder was testifying at the Judiciary Committee's hearing, "On Oversight of the Justice Department." Holder's remarks further document the Wall Street/City of London nature of Obama himself. Before Sen. Grassley asked Holder the particular question about, "the Department's continued failure to criminal ...

Justice Scalia’s contempt of Congress By Editorial Board,February 27, 2013 “THIS IS NOT the kind of a question you can leave to Congress,” Justice Antonin Scalia pronounced during a Supreme Court argument Wednesday. The subject was the Voting Rights Act, one of the most successful pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history, and in particular its Section 5. That provision requires nine states and assorted jurisdictions in seven others to win Justice Department approval before changing their voting laws. The burden is on these “covered” jurisdictions, unlike the rest of the country, to prove that such changes won’t adversely affect the right of African Americans and other minorities to vote. Shelby County, Ala., was in court Wednesday arguing that this pre-clearance requirement is an unfair infringement on Alabama’s sovereignty. Congress adopted the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and has reauthorized it four times since, most recently in 2006. Each time it has extended Section5 on the groun ...

Why! Why is our Justice Department, the US Justice Department, bringing a non-US citizen, who has sworn to destroy our system of government, and oh yeah our justice system is part of that very same government last I heard, treating this terrorist better than our own citizens? I'm begining to believe the ONLY thing Eric Holder hates more than white people is the US way of life. It was bad enough when he refused to prosecute those 2 black panther guys for terrorizing voters and forced gun shops along the border to sell guns to drug dealers, who killed border agents and innocent Mexican citizens with those guns then blamed the gun dealers and our 2nd Amendment for those very deaths. Why is this man still in office?? Don't make some sense to me!!!

Bin Laden's son-in-law captured, charged in US with conspiring to kill Americans Published March 08, 2013 FoxNews.com A top Al Qaeda spokesman, who is the son-in-law of Usama bin Laden, has been captured overseas and charged in the United States with conspiracy to kill Americans, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday, sparking Republican criticism that such terrorists don't belong in the civilian judicial system. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith will appear in a federal New York courtroom Friday, according to the Justice Department statement and indictment outlining the accusations against him. The capture of Abu Ghaith drew praise from Republican Rep. Peter King of New York, the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who called it a "very significant victory" in U.S. efforts against Al Qaeda. However, two of his fellow Republicans, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte, said Thursday the Obama administration's decision to bring Abu Ghaith to court in New York is wrong, "sneaky" and against t ...

Members of Congress continue to demand more answers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) about the aggressive prosecution of the late Aaron Swartz. Yesterday, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about general Justice Department oversight, Senator Cornyn—who initiated one of the two congressional...

Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws CHICAGO — Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and a United Nations agency also urged challenges to the measures it says violate international treaties. The former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs criticized Barack Obama's administration for moving too slowly to file a lawsuit that would force the states to rescind the legislation. Marijuana is illegal under federal law. "My fear is that the Justice Department will do what they are doing now: do nothing and say nothing," former DEA administrator Peter Bensinger told The Associated Press in an interview Monday. "If they don't act now, these laws will be fully implemented in a matter of months." Bensinger, who lives in the Chicago area, said if the federal government doesn't immediately sue the states it'll risk creating "a domino effect" in wh ...

Google: FBI watching you on internet :- Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can't say how extensive the surveillance is. As part of the Google Transparency Report, the Internet giant this week released data on so-called National Security Letters -- official requests for data under the Patriot Act passed after the September 11, 2001 attacks. But Google said it was only allowed to provide broad ranges of numbers: in the years from 2009 to 2012, for example, it received between zero and 999 requests. The requests affected between 1,000 and 1,999 accounts, except in 2010 when the range was 2,000 to 2,999 accounts, Google said. "You'll notice that we're reporting numerical ranges rather than exact numbers. This is to address concerns raised by the FBI, Justice Department and other agencies that releasing exact numbers might reveal information about investigations," said a blog post from Google law enforcement director Richard Salgado. Salgado added, "We're thankf ...

The President of the United States, according to Justice Department's top lawyer, reserves the right to use lethal military force against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil without judicial review or due process.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took on Attorney General Eric Holder's admission that some banks are too big for the Justice Department to prosecute, asserting that Holder's statement illustrates why the financial institutions should be held accountable. “It has been almost five years since the fina...

Of the news about the Justice Department's brief Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said:"President Obama, who was against same-sex 'marriage' before he was for it, and his administration, which said the Defense of Marriage Act was constitutional before they said it was unconstitutional,...

Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Justice Department considered the economic fallout that could result from prosecuting major banks for their role in the financial crisis, in Senate testimony on Tuesday.

C-SPAN Live Stream: Justice Department Oversight Committee. Attorney General Eric Holder testified at a Justice Department oversight hearing.He answered questions on the use of military drones against Americans, gun violence reduction and assault weapons, and the impact of sequestration budget cuts on national security.

Hey Obama... need a program to cut? Here's a few to start with 1.$2,908,000 for shrimp aquaculture research 2.$1,454,000 for mosquito trapping research 3.$4,841,000 for wood utilization research 4.$2,573,000 for potato research 5.$775,000 for “Pickle Science and Technology” 6.$500,000 for helicopter logging 7.$600,000 for a “gurgling toad sculpture” in DoD building 8.$8.3 million for golf course renovation in Louisiana 9.$1.4 million for decorative rocks in Nevada 10.$500,000 for food at Justice Department banquets 11.$1 million for sugar cain research center in Louisiana 12.$623 million for the National Endowment for the arts 13.$6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings. 14.$200 million for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations. 15.$650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program. 16.$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees. 17.$75 million for “smoking cessation activities.” 18.$18 million to rebu ...

For the U.S. Justice Department, the third time wasn't the charm in the high-profile drug prosecution of Washington nightclub owner Antoine Jones. A federal judge today declared a mistrial, the latest setback for the government after a loss in the...

This is the man who ran the Justice Department during the Clinton administration, Janet Reno was just a figurehead. Does anyone remember Waco, Texas? Nothing will stop this communist AH from destroying this country.

Tuesday Afternoon Headlines 03/05/13 The U.S. Justice Department is asking for more information about the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger. It's standard procedure for the regulatory process, and airline officials say they are working with the DOJ as it reviews the proposal. The merger must also be approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and shareholders. Fort Worth based American Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2011. The airlines announced the proposed eleven-billion-dollar merger last month, which would create the world's largest airline under the American Airlines name. Airline officials say the merger should be complete by the third quarter of this year. Over 100 Dallas teachers are taking advantage of a cash incentive if they let the DISD know they're leaving. The district tells "The Dallas Morning News" around 110 applications were turned in yesterday. Teachers could end up getting up to two-thousand dollars if they decide to resign by Thursday. More incentives are going t ...

Nasa Information on guidance and terrain-mapping systems from the Tomahawk cruise missile and a radar from the F-35 leaked to China A four-year FBI investigation into the transfer of classified weapons technology to China and other countries from NASA’s Ames Research Center is being stonewalled by government officials, sources tell FoxNews.com. Documents obtained by FoxNews.com, which summarize these and other allegations and were given to congressional sources last week by a whistle-blower, described how a “secret grand jury” was to be convened in February 2011 to hear testimony from informants in the case, including a senior NASA engineer. But federal prosecutor Gary Fry was removed from the case, which was then transferred from one office in the Northern District of California to another where, according to the documents, “this case now appears to be stalled.” “The information is staggering,” the whistle-blower told FoxNews.com. A Justice Department spokesman on Thursday told FoxNews.com ...

As US Attorney General, Eric Holder has been instrumental in keeping the Justice Department's drone memos detailing the legal justification for US drone strikes a secret from the public—and from Congress.

Putrajaya’s media strategist APCO Worldwide covertly financed international media reports in a campaign against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim after Election 2008, filings to the United States Department of Justice this week revealed. Widely-read New York-based news portal Buzzfeed Politics reported yesterday that media outlets from Huffington Post and Washington Times to San Francisco Examiner and National Review carried several articles by right-wing American writers, most notably Joshua Trevino, who had been engaged by global publicity firm APCO Worldwide. Trevino, who was last year sacked as the US correspondent for British paper The Guardian over a news-fixing scandal linked to Putrajaya, was reported to have declared earning US$389,724.70 (RM1.2 million), in a belated filing to the US Justice Department under its Foreign Agent Registration Act earlier this week, for a contracted campaign that spanned from May 2008 to April 2011. According to Trevino’s belated federal filing, the interests paying Trevi ...

When he was alive, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire came up with his annual Golden Fleece Awards, given to the government agencies that wasted the most money. Some of Proxmire’s winners were an $84,000 study by the National Science Foundation on why people fall in love; a Justice Department study on why prisoners wanted to get out of jail; a grant to the National Institute of Mental Health to study a Peruvian brothel; and the Federal Aviation Administration receiving a grant to study the physical measurements of 432 airline stewardesses, paying special attention to the “length of the buttocks.” Proxmire would have a field day in this day and age if he were to take on our president, our congress and our wasteful government agencies. If you read the following few examples of some of the ways our government wastes your tax money, you might be inclined to agree that there is no need to raise taxes in this country, particularly when the Office of Management and Budget says that the government will take ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could mean the end of a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. At the heart of the case is the question of whether states with a long history of racial discrimination must still get permission from the Justice Department before changing their voting laws. We’ll have to wait until summer for the Court’s decision. But we can take a pretty good guess about what one of the justices thinks about the VRA right now. In comments that drew gasps from lawyers listening in at the Court, he made no secret of his feelings about the law. That’s why he is getting my letter today. Dear Justice Scalia, It’s me, Melissa. By now, we know you well enough that there’s not much you can say or do that would come as a surprise. We can set our watches by your decisions that, predictably, will be in alignment with the Court’s most radically conservative reasoning. We know that unlike your friend Justice Clarence Thomas, who has a permanent mute b ...

Federal prosecutors are targeting a rising number of law enforcement officers for alleged brutality, Justice Department statistics show. The heightened prosecutions come as the nation's largest police union fears that agencies are dropping standards...

through the thousands of copies of emails I have posted on my public face book page notes- a chronological detailed history of my desperate pleadings to countless public agencies and officials for well over 2 years- and the FBI and Justice Department or 3 Federal Attorney General's from HUD, SSA, and EEOC- and there is still NO investigation, NO justice, NO competent legal venue to resolve several plus years of criminal activity that attempted to obstruct justice at every step and deny me my fundamental Constitutional right to equal justice and all other 14 th and every other right known to man- these city, state, and federal thugs thought they were all going to get away with it, and had hoped and even attempted to maliciously and cruelly destroy me and my health, my reputation , my livelihood! dispicable! Give Me LIberty or Give me death! and no that is not suicidal or homicidal, it is a fact of life, I took an oath to defend the Constitution and the liberty for all it guarantees! I am an Oath keeper, no ...

Of course 'our leader' is accountable. For a moment, let’s all forget about Fast & Furious and how the Justice Department failed. Again, let’s forget about Benghazi and the whole side-show orchestrated from the White House. No one else could have ordered the CIA, the Military, and the State Department, to stand down and do absolutely nothing. We now have a ‘strutting peacock’ as the leader of the Free World. Impervious to questions regarding the Benghazi attack or Fast & Furious. The statistics have always proven that the concealed carrying of firearms is effective in every State that allows it. The Gun Control advocates have been proven that their ‘Jim Crow Laws’ are useless; time and time again. [Incidentally, the Jim Crow Laws, were designed by the democRats to stop former slaves from having guns. Similarly these democRats, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)and poll taxes, were started to keep them from voting.] Haven’t these progressive liberal extremists seen the light yet? They have pill ...

Why march for the right to vote today? Because the Supreme Court is considering repealing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the part that allows Justice Department in some Southern states, and other states that have a history of past discrimination. The case is Shelby County (Alabama) V. Holder (Justice Department). In Shelby County, with one black man on the city council, the small town he represented gerrymandered districts to get him out of his seat (they say that was not their intent) and the Justice Department stepped in. Now they are suing, saying there is no discrimination. Hmmm. I'm not surprised that a dozen or more Attorneys General in Southern States and City Attorneys have filed amicus briefs. In his comments last week, Justice Antonin Scalia says there is no need for Secction 5.

Interview: CNN disowns US lobbying firm, raising questions about Jonathan’s $40,000 payment Cable News Network, CNN, has denied being paid, or contacted by American lobbying firm, Fleishman-Hillard, for a 2010 interview with President Goodluck Jonathan, contradicting the firm’s claim that it contacted CNN, and other media for a string of interviews. Fleishman-Hillard, contracted through a Nigerian consultant to the presidency, Caser’s group, was to receive $58,200 to pitch interviews with advocacy groups, and major media outlets including Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN and Bloomberg. In its filings to the US Justice Department, the company claimed that while it reached the media organizations, it only succeeded in securing a CNN interview for the president. It added that its fee was lowered by $20,000 after the rest of the interviews were rescheduled. CNN has however denied arranging its interviews through agencies, specifically denying receiving contacts, or funds, from Fleishman ...

The City of Dallas, Texas passed an ordinance stating that if a driver is pulled over by law enforcement and is not able to provide proof of insurance, the car is towed. To retrieve the car after being impounded, they must show proof of insurance to have the car released. This has made it easy for the City of Dallas to remove uninsured cars. Shortly after the "No Insurance" ordinance was passed, Dallas impound lots began to fill up and were full after only nine days. Over 80 % of the impounded cars were driven by illegal's. Now, not only must they provide proof of insurance to have their car released, they have to pay for the cost of the tow, a $350 fine, and $20 for every day their car is kept in the lot. Guess what? Accident rates have gone down 47% and . . . Dallas' solution gets uninsured drivers off the road WITHOUT making them show proof of nationality. I wonder how the ACLU or the Justice Department will get around this one. Just brings tears to your eyes doesn't .

The U.S. Justice Department has requested documents over J&J's ASR XL hip devices, which were recalled in August 2010, while California is leading a multistate investigation into the marketing of its surgical mesh, the company said today

President Barack Obama said in a press conference Friday that if he sat on the Supreme Court, he would most likely rule that *** marriage bans are unconstitutional. Obama's Justice Department filed a brief Thursday night with the Supreme Court urging the nine justices to overturn California's voter-...

New Inquiry of Deaths on Reservation in the 1970s By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Published: June 19, 2012 The United States attorney for South Dakota said Tuesday that prosecutors would re-examine the circumstances surrounding dozens of deaths that occurred on or near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, many dating back to the 1970s when the reservation was embroiled in political violence. The Oglala Sioux tribe has for years sought a Justice Department review of the deaths. In May, tribal leaders sent a letter to Brendan Johnson, the United States attorney for South Dakota, asking that he direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs to reopen investigations into 28 deaths — many of which the original investigators had determined were caused by accidents or suicides. On Tuesday, Mr. Johnson said that a team of three assistant United States attorneys, including Mr. Johnson’s top deputy, would review a total of 50 Pine Ridge-related deaths that had occurred during the past 40 years. O ...

THIS IS AMUST READ FOR CALIFORNIA VOTERS! WH METTLING IN "STATE BUSINESS" THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. GROSS ABUSE OF POWER! By enlisting the Justice Department, the White House is using Americans' own resources against them to take away their ability to participate in the democratic process. THAT"S NOT EQUIALITY--IT"S TYRANNY." Obama Jilts Voters at the Altar When the President promised change, most people assumed he was talking about America--not his own policy positions. But after yesterday's decision on California's Proposition 8, the Potomac may actually be less fluid than this White House's stance on marriage. After years of insisting the debate is a state issue, the President peeled back another layer of hypocrisy by arguing the exact opposite in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although conservatives have come to expect this kind of duplicity from President Obama, the announcement was all the more stunning coming on the heels of the Justice Department's other brief in the case to strike down the ...

It’s Official, the Fourth Amendment is Dead - by Kurt Nimmo On Tuesday, the Supreme Court disemboweled the Fourth Amendment. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that citizens cannot challenge government wiretapping laws, in particular the unconstitutional Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and, more recently, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. According to Justice Samuel Alito, millions of Americans can no longer expect the government to uphold the Constitution and prevent the NSA from conducting dragnet surveillance. The government established so-called “sovereign immunity” last August when the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco dismissed Al Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Obama following a December 2010 court case ruling the NSA’s warrantless wiretap program was illegal. FISA is a near perfect scheme for the government. It allows the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to rubber-stamp surveillance requests of supposed terrorists (the Justice Department claims there are over a million terr ...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Friday that he does not think California's Proposition 8 is constitutional, reflecting the view of his Justice Department, which submitted a legal brief to an upcoming Supreme Court challenge to the law on Thursday. "As everybody here knows, last year upon a...

"Proposition 8, by depriving same-sex couples of the right to marry, denies them the dignity, respect and stature accorded similarly situated opposite-sex couples under state law," Obama's Justice Department said in written arguments to the court. Because California allows same-sex couple...

Obama administration files brief supporting *** marriage in California The Ticket - 17 hrs ago The Obama administration has waded into the legal battle over California's *** marriage ban, filing a brief with the Supreme Court Thursday evening that argues the state's voters did not have the right to decide *** couples cannot wed. In the brief, the Justice Department--which is not involved in the case--argues that the *** marriage ban violated same-sex couples' constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law and is the result of prejudice. "Prejudice may not...be the basis for differential treatment under the law," the brief said. But the Obama administration stopped short of calling for a countrywide guarantee of equal access to marriage for *** people in the brief, keeping its arguments focused on California. "Throughout history, we have seen the unjust consequences of decisions and policies rooted in discrimination," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. "The issues before the Supr ...

Report: Nearly 10 percent of inmates suffer sexual abuse By Kari Huus, msnbc.com Nearly one in 10 prisoners suffer sexual abuse while incarcerated in state prisons, local jails and post-release treatment facilities, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice. The report, based on the first National Former Prisoners Survey, includes data from 518,800 former prisoners who were on supervised parole in mid-2008. An estimated 3.7 percent said they were forced or pressured to have nonconsensual sex with another inmate. About 5.3 percent reported an incident that involved facility staff. The report’s publication coincides with the Justice Department's release of landmark federal standards to protect inmates in all federal, state and local facilities, under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. "For too long, incidents of sexual abuse against incarcerated persons have not been taken as seriously as sexual abuse outside prison walls," the Justice Department said in a statement ...

The Obama administration will make a decision "soon" on how the Justice Department will handle marijuana laws passed in Washington and Colorado, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday. “We’re still in the process of reviewing both of the initiatives that were passed,” Holder told the National *** ..

from the daily ank by NUGGETRY: Association of Attorney General annual conference on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder told Washington and Colorado state attorneys general that an answer on how the Justice Department will handle legalized marijuana will be coming "soon". if i had a nickel for everytime i heard the word real soon now on the net, i'd be rich. but still, it's something to be hopeful for. it's time has long been due.

New evidence has just surfaced of a disturbing connection between the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Obama Administration. As you've probably heard, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is currently working to destroy Public Advocate in court. And according to multiple news sources, the SPLC and their infamous "Hate List" directly inspired the pro-homosexual gunman who last August attempted a shooting spree against Public Advocate and the Family Research Council (FRC). Shockingly, it turns out that in the summer leading up to this attack, the Obama Administration was in steady contact with SPLC president Morris Dees. Watchdog groups have uncovered dozens of emails back and forth between high-ranking members of Obama's Department of Justice and the SPLC president. During the months when the SPLC was drastically expanding its "Hate List" to include pro-marriage advocates like myself, the Justice Department was unabashedly recruiting Mr. Dees to lecture to their legal staff. Reading these emails made ...

“What has happened and continues to happen in Monroe, N.C., illustrates an old truth: that words used in common by all men do not always have a meaning common to all men. Men have engaged in life-or-death struggles because of differences of meaning in a commonly-used word. The white racists ‘believes’ in ‘freedom,’ he ‘believes’ in ‘fair trail,’ he ‘believes’ in ‘justice.’ he sincerely believes in these words and can use them with great emotion because to the white racist they mean his freedom to deprive Negroes of their basic human rights and his courts where a ‘fair trial’ is that procedure and ‘justice’ that decision which upholds the racist’s mad ideal of white supremacy. On many desperate occasions when our constitutional rights were denied and our lives in danger, we called on the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate the Monroe situation, to protect our lives and to restore our constitutional-in other words, to administer justice. And they always refused ...

A congressional committee is broadening its investigation of the Boston-based prosecution of political activist Aaron Swartz, whose January suicide prompted questions about whether the Justice Department went too far in enforcing a 27-year-old law regulating computers. Darrell Issa, chairman of the…

WASHINGTON -- A federal court in Louisiana is rejecting transactions by The Dow Chemical Co. that created $1 billion in what the U.S. Justice Department calls "phony tax deductions." Justice said Wednesday that the tax-reduction scheme was created by Goldman Sachs and the law firm of King & Spalding...

Obama's DOJ targets religious freedom, again Argues gov't knows better than parents what benefits children The Obama administration has launched another challenge to the rights of individuals to act on their religious beliefs, this time focusing on a family of homeschoolers. The administration already has argued in legal cases against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate that religious business owners can be forced to pay for abortifacients for their workers in violation of their religious beliefs. Repeatedly, the government has referenced its dedication to the freedom of “worship,” altering the First Amendment’s assurances of freedom of religion. Now comes a case in which the administration is seeking to return a family of homeschoolers to Germany, where they likely would be persecuted for their religious objections to the mandatory public school system. Attorneys for the Justice Department are arguing before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that a government has every right to demand that pare ...

Last week, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) caused a stir when he said that President Barack Obama would repeal the Second Amendment if he could, and the NRA recently used a Justice Department memo to claim that Obama knows "a gun ban will not work without mandatory gun confiscation." According to a new Hu...

TODAY, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Senator Dianne Feinstein's anti-gun bill...which would BAN millions of commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and BAN ammunition magazines that hold more than ten rounds. YOUR SENATORS NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU RIGHT NOW!!! Please call both of your Senators today at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to OPPOSE the Feinstein Gun Grab bill. Tell your Senators that President Barack Obama's own Justice Department recently reported that any ban on semi-automatic firearms WILL NOT WORK...unless it includes mandatory gun buy backs, which is federal GUN CONFISCATION!

By ALEXANDRA BERZON New Jersey on Tuesday became the biggest state yet to allow regulated online gambling, establishing a template that proponents hope other states will follow for a business that federal authorities long treated as a criminal enterprise. Enlarge Image Associated Press New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie The new law allows Atlantic City's casinos to run websites that take bets on games such as blackjack, slots and poker. It also could help legitimize online-gambling companies whose executives the U.S. Justice Department once targeted for offering the same kind of Internet wagers. The law, passed by the legislature and signed Tuesday by Gov. Chris Christie, for now requires bettors to be physically present in the state, which industry executives and regulators believe can be verified with technology that tracks a user's location. But bets could conceivably be placed from any device with an Internet connection. New Jersey's move marks a significant turning point in the debate over online gamblin ...

US Justice Department representative told Aaron Swartz's "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" played a role in the prosecution. (Swartz was 26 when he killed himself in January this year.) Here's the text of that Manifesto in full: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things publish ...

In 1998, the Justice Department declassified documents which showed that 300 American companies continued doing business in Germany during the war. Additionally, there have been allegations that Ford and General Motors' subsidiaries in Germany used slave labor. German factories also constructed fact...

Justice Department not Properly Vetting Legislation for Charter Breaches: Senior Government Lawyer Testifies Senior government lawyer Edgar Schmidt has testified in federal court that he and his colleagues have been receiving illegal instructions from his superiors at the Department of Justice (DOJ) for years. Schmidt’s court documents state that his colleagues at the DOJ have been told not to raise legislative concerns with their minister even if there is as much as a 95 percent probability of Charter inconsistency. In other words, Schmidt said that even if a piece of legislation has only a 5 percent chance of being upheld in court, it would still be acceptable to DOJ lawyers. Edgar Schmidt, general counsel and special adviser in the Legislative Services Branch, filed a claim against the government on December 14th. The following day he was suspended from his job without pay for violating his duties as a public servant. Schmidt has not called himself a whistleblower but could possibly receive protectio ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House commitment to provide lawmakers with additional information about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, may have cleared the way for a vote later this week on President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday. Republicans had demanded the records as a condition of moving forward with John Brennan's confirmation. "The administration has agreed to provide the material, (and) some of it is going to be provided tomorrow," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. "It is my hope that that is sufficient and we will be able to schedule the nomination for a vote on Thursday." But Feinstein also said the Obama administration has not yet responded to the committee's request for more details about the classified Justice Department legal opinions that justify using unmanned spy planes to kill al-Qaida suspects overseas, including American citizens. Feinstein said she still needs to consult with the co ...

NRA Uses Justice Memo to Accuse Obama on Guns Sunday, 24 Feb 2013 08:12 AM More ways to share... Mixx Stumbled LinkedIn Vine Buzzflash Reddit Delicious Newstrust Technocrati Share: More . . . A A | Email Us | Print | Forward Article 16 inShare inShare16 The National Rifle Association is using a Justice Department memo it obtained to argue in ads that the Obama administration believes its gun control plans won't work unless the government seizes firearms and requires national gun registration — ideas the White House has not proposed and does not support. The NRA's assertion and its obtaining of the memo in the first place underscore the no-holds-barred battle under way as Washington's fight over gun restrictions heats up. The memo, under the name of one of the Justice Department's leading crime researchers, critiques the effectiveness of gun control proposals, including some of President Barack Obama's. A Justice Department official called the memo an unfinished review of gun violence re ...

President Obama isn't the only one who has "evolved." So has the U.S. Justice Department, whose radical transformation has resulted in more laws being attacked by the administration than defended. Nowhere is that more evident than America's marriage statute, which the President shrugged off back in…

TSA workers, travelers could see longer lines and delays at airport security checkpoints. Fewer FAA Air Traffic Controllers means fewer planes in the sky, which means ongoing flight delays or cancellations. "It's going to be very painful for the flying public," warned Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Friday. Furloughed food inspectors could force some processors to shut down. The IRS has warned that your tax refund will be delayed if there are fewer workers to review and process your return. With fewer workers showing up at the FBI and Justice Department, criminal cases could take longer to investigate and prosecute. Doctors would get paid less to see Medicare patients, and could have to wait longer to collect those fees. Households collecting federally-funded, extended unemployment benefits would get smaller checks. Farmers face cuts in crop subsidies. No wonder they’re called “across the board”cuts. Would any part of the government be spared? Yes. Social Security checks and Medicare benefits to ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With billions of dollars at stake, the trial to figure out how much more BP and other companies should pay for the nation's worst offshore oil spill began Monday with the federal government saying the oil giant was mostly to blame for a disaster caused by putting profits ahead of safety. Justice Department attorney Mike Underhill said BP PLC, which leased the rig and owned the blown-out Macondo well, said the disaster resulted from the London-based company's "culture of corporate recklessness." "The evidence will show that BP put profits before people, profits before safety and profits before the environment," Underhill said during opening statements. Eleven workers died when the rig exploded April 20, 2010, and millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is hearing the case without a jury and — barring a settlement — will decide months from now how much more money BP and other companies involved in the ill-fated drilling project ow ...

Stand for something... If you voted for the *** it is time to help make things right... Copy and paste this and send it to your representatives. To: All members of the U.S. Congress: Whereas, top constitutional attorneys from across the political spectrum now agree that Barack Obama has committed certain specific offenses that unquestionably rise to the level of impeachable “high crimes and misdemeanors”; Whereas, one of these offenses – that of illegally conducting war against Libya – has been deemed by a bipartisan panel of constitutional experts to be “clearly an impeachable offense” and “gross usurpation of the war power”; Whereas, Obama’s policy of targeted assassinations of U.S. citizens without any constitutionally required due process – including the drone assassination of an American-born 16-year-old as he was eating dinner – is unanimously deemed by experts, both liberal and conservative, as “an impeachable offense”; Whereas, Obama’s Justice Department has presided .. ...

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has obtained an internal Justice Department memo that suggests President Obama's gun-control measures would be largely useless unless “coupled with a ban,” the Associated Press reports . The gun lobby is citing the nine-page memo in ads running in 15 states, i...

The food cartel has also built up its control, in the food distribution industries, through such combines as Philip Morris, Grand Metropolitan-Pillsbury, and KKR-RJR-Nabisco-Borden. In the case of Philip Morris, which owns Kraft Foods, General Foods (Post cereals), the Miller Brewing Company, and a host of other brand names, 10¢ of every $1 that an American spends on brand-name food items is for a Philip Morris product. The food cartel's power must be broken. This year, the U.S. Justice Department's Anti-Trust division launched an investigation into price-fixing in the case of corn-based fructose and lysine, by Archer Daniels Midland and some of the other food cartel companies. The case, if brought to trial, could provide valuable information and help to expose and possibly halt, in a limited way, a few of ADM's practices. But the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss cartel is playing for high stakes—the ability to constrain the supply of raw materials, and above all, food, to turn back the clock of history, and reduce m ...

Obama Justice Department Reveals Truth About State of the Union Claims Despite long odds, on Tuesday night, Barack Obama managed to turn in a State of the Union performance that was filled with more theatrical pandering than the event is typically known for. Once again seeking to capitalize off tragedy by opting for emotional, rather than reasoned arguments, the President reiterated his support for increased background checks and bans on common semi-automatic firearms and their magazines, which he referred to as "weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines." As usual, Obama's remarks were short on evidence that his gun control proposals would work. Of course, that evidence is sorely lacking--and who would know that better than the experts at his own Justice Department? In a white paper dated January 4 and obtained by NRA-ILA, the deputy director of the National Institute for Justice--DOJ's research and evaluation agency--said that the proposals before Congress are unlikely to have an effect unless the ...

SHARK BAIT One of the biggest legal circuses on Earth — the trial of BP over the extent of its responsibility for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill — is scheduled to open in New Orleans on Monday, featuring 34 leading lawyers in the jam-packed federal court and hundreds of others listening to video feeds in rooms nearby. There will be 400 minutes of opening arguments from 11 parties, including the Justice Department. The list of exhibits runs nearly a thousand pages, and lawyers have filed 126 depositions and the names of about 80 potential witnesses. The plaintiffs’ team has essentially built an entire new firm, with 300 lawyers, paralegals and support staffers dedicated to the case. BP has a similar battery of attorneys from four of the nation’s most prestigious firms.

Should anyone eager to see federal criminal justice reform be rooting FOR the sequester? The question in the title of this post in prompted by these two recent commentaries by Walter Pavlo, who writes about white-collar crime over at Forbes' website: Sequester Impact on Federal Prisons Here's an Idea To Reduce The Deficit -- Release Some Federal Inmates The first post above links to this intriguing letter from AG Eric Holder which details the significant "downsizing" that would be required within the Justice Department if the sequester's automating budget cuts kick in. The second post concludes with these notable points about how we might sensibly cut some federal costs at limited risk to public saefty: In a time when we want people off of government assistance, the federal justice system is feeding more people into prison …. and believe me, prison IS government assistance (food, shelter, healthcare, supervision and monthly stipend (yes, inmates are paid)). Are we less safe with guys like Raj Rajaratna ...

ok The Justice Dept. has joined a law suit against Lance Armstrong because he violated the terms of his sponsorship contract with the Postal Service by using performance enhancing drugs. He is a no good lying so and so. But when is this Justice Department going to go after the bankers and hedge fund managers whose greed ruined our economy. Maybe if ole Lance had greased the palms of our politicians he would pedal free. The DOJ's priorities are screwed up!!!

The U.S. Coast Guard has found evidence of multiple safety and environmental violations in Shell Alaska's Noble Discoverer Arctic drilling rig and forwarded it to the U.S. Justice Department for a decision about possible civil or criminal penalties, authorities confirmed Friday.

FREE UNSOLICITED ADVISE: President Obama, I really like you but I hope you do not appoint Antonio Villaraigosa as head of DOT (Department of Transportation). He is a loser and as crook. His department of parking enforcement is a fraud. They give expired meter tickets to vehicles whose time has not expired. The meters work but Villaraigosa's officers are dirty, especially Officer Rodricks. I hope LA's parking enforcement department gets investigated by the Justice Department. Because of Villaraigosa, I wrote in Al Gore for president in 2012. (Al won in 2000 but was robbed). Anyone who thinks Bush was elected, (not selected) still believes that Michael Jordan won his 6th title fair and square. I saw him grab Byron Russell by the you know whats to create an open title winning shot. Of course, in the days, the referees played by the Jordan rules. From a personal emotion, I wish that your biological mother and father could have witnessed your election, even for one minute. It makes me very sad that ...

There Oughta Be a Law' February 22, 2013 "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." --Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer XVIII Joe Biden, holding the only acceptable firearm Ever since the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the Left has rabidly pursued all manner of unconstitutional gun control legislation. Federal, state and local, the NeoComs stop at nothing to deprive us of our unalienable rights, endowed by our Creator. Yet all is not lost as long as we stand firm. The National Institute of Justice, the research branch of the Justice Department, recently leaked a memo evaluating many of the White House's preferred gun control measures. For example, the NIJ says that Dianne Feinstein's defensive weapons ban is "unlikely to have an impact on gun violence" because -- wait for it -- those firearms "are not a major contributor to gun crime." Therefore, concludes th ...

Illegal immigrants sold cocaine, marijuana out of Houma, Schriever Three Mexican men living in Louisiana without visas admitted today to hiding and selling cocaine and marijuana out of their Houma and Schriever homes, the Justice Department said. The three men, who formerly lived at 216 Plant Road in Houma and 1945 La. 311 in Schriever, pleaded guilty in federal court, but a judge has not yet sentenced them. The maximum sentence for the crimes they admitted to is life in prison, Department of Justice officials said. Juan Hernandez, 25, was arrested in Houma, and Oliber Hernandez, 30, and Pedro Cruz, 28, were arrested in Schriever, officials said. The drug seizures and arrests all happened May 1. Investigators found Juan Hernandez with a handgun in his hands before arresting him. State Police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security purchased cocaine from these men in the spring of 2012, court documents say. During the arrests, investigators seized 1,372 grams of cocaine from Juan Hernandez and over 5, ...

On behalf of my entire family we would like to thank everyone for all the prayers and phone calls, I’m deeply hurt filled with grief and disbelief, my own brother now has fallen victim to the senseless killing in this city. I have unsuccessfully been trying to raise the concern of the masses on the killings in our community since the beginning of the year praying for the support to bring change before it struck my front, as you can see I failed. I believe God chose me for this because he knew I would not be afraid to speak truth. Wicked people in high positions of power are involved, I’m asking people to request the Justice Department to bring their resources to the College Hill Neighborhood to investigate the real corruption behind all these killings.

DOJ's Wall Street Crackdown Is Laughable By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 21 February 13 don't want to sound like a broken record, but . . . the latest ploy by the government to insist it is "getting tough" on Wall Street is beyond laughable. The tough new-and-improved regime, as described by the curiously credulous Dealbook, is a policy of extracting criminal guilty pleas from foreign subsidiaries, as opposed to the "usual fines and reforms." This was the path chosen in the recent UBS deal (in which a Japanese subsidiary was charged while the parent company was given a complete walk, a non-prosecution settlement) and in the more recent deal with the Royal Bank of Scotland. Both of those banks were implicated in the LIBOR rate-fixing case, which is only maybe the most egregious and far-reaching financial scandal of our generation. Writes Dealbook: Criticized for letting Wall Street off the hook after the financial crisis, the Justice Department is building a new model for prosecuting big banks. In a recent r ...

AMERICA IS GOING TO GET SCREWED BAD IF THIS IS TRUE - A provider of “realistic” shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies has created a line of “non-traditional threat” targets that include pregnant women, mothers in playgrounds and elderly American gun owners. Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. is a 21-year designer and full service provider of training targets for the DHS, the Justice Department and thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout the country. The company’s website offers a line of “No More Hesitation” targets ”designed to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training.” The targets are, “meant to help the transition for officers who are faced with these highly unusual targets for the first time.” The targets include “pregnant woman threat,” “older man with shotgun,” “older man in home with shotgun,” “older woman with gun,” “young ...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, February 21, 2013 Former Officials and Broker of Peanut Corporation of America Indicted Related to Salmonella-Tainted Peanut Products Allegations Include Mail and Wire Fraud, Introduction of Adulterated and Misbranded Food into Interstate Commerce with Intent to Defraud or Mislead, and Conspiracy A 76-count indictment was unsealed yesterday charging four former officials of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) and a related company with numerous charges relating to salmonella-tainted peanuts and peanut products, the Justice Department announced today. Stewart Parnell, 58, of Lynchburg, Va.; Michael Parnell, 54, of Midlothian, Va.; and Samuel Lightsey, 48, of Blakely, Ga., have been charged with mail and wire fraud, the introduction of adulterated and misbranded food into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud or mislead, and conspiracy. Stewart Parnell, Lightsey and Mary Wilkerson, 39, of Edison, Ga., were also ch ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating JPMorgan Chase & Co over allegations that Bear Stearns provided misleading information about its mortgage products during the lead-up to the financial crisis, according to people familiar with the matter. JPMorgan acquired Bear Stearns in a 20...

1. Our Justice Department has condoned money laundering with them simply fining HSBC 1.9 billion dollars for over a decade of conspiring with drug cartels to launder money. Nobody goes to jail and the Justice Department has simply told the bank how much the cost of doing business is. If it were some low level drug dealer he'd go to jail even though his/her acts hurt fewer people. That means all of our tax dollars are being wasted on this never ending, never winning war on drugs. This whole war on drugs is the full employment act for law enforcement. What a joke however the jokes on us.

America Is Basically Helpless Against The Chinese Hackers Chinese army hackers have systematically stolen secrets from U.S. corporations for at least seven years, according to an extensive report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant. This aggressive action warrants a strong U.S. response. Unfortunately, America appears to have only one viable option, which could take years to pay off: diplomacy. On Wednesday the Obama administration said as much when it announced its Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of U.S. Trade Secrets. The plan seems to be lacking teeth as it states only that the Justice Department "will continue to make the investigation and prosecution of trade secret theft by foreign competitors and foreign governments a top priority" while talking a lot about beefing up security against incoming attacks. Nevertheless, here are America's other options, and why they won't work. Fines will be ineffective as long as China can deny accountability, which they have already done, calling Mandiant's report deep ...

Under a memo used by the Justice Department, unspecified US officials can approve the killing of American citizens who have been involved in undefined activities that the officials believe to pose a threat of violent attack — even in the absence of any evidence the attack will occur anytime soon. .…

Obama administration takes on hackers stealing trade secrets The U.S. is seeking a more muscular response to the growing threat from foreign hackers interested in obtaining U.S. businesses’ trade secrets. The response, in the guise of a 150-page report unveiled by Attorney Gen. Eric Holder and other leading government officials on Wednesday, includes new pledges by the Justice Department and FBI to crack down on hacking, a guide for corporations vulnerable to attacks on how to beef up their own security, and a proposal to better coordinate efforts with U.S. allies to prosecute foreign hackers. “In this time of economic recovery, this work is more important than it has ever been before,” Holder said Wednesday at a White House event that outlined the new response. “I am pleased to report we are fighting back more aggressively and collaboratively than ever before.” The announcement comes a day after the Virginia-based Mandiant published a 60-page report that alleges the Chinese government is sponso ...

in NAZI Germany they also had a Justice Department, Supreme Court, Parliament and judges, none of whom found one single action by Adolf Hitler to be unconstitutional and that is what we have now in the U.S. for Obama

The White House and Justice Department on Tuesday adamantly defended the administration's authority to use unmanned drones to kill terror operatives -- even if those operatives are U.S. citizens -- following the release of a controversial memo on the program. President Obama's advisers are also trying to tamp down concerns about the targeted killings ahead of the confirmation hearing Thursday for CIA director nominee John Brennan -- the counterterrorism adviser and drone-program supporter who has come under criticism from Democrats. Pressed repeatedly about the complicated constitutional and legal questions raised by the targeted killing of Americans, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that the president takes those issues "very seriously." But he noted that Al Qaeda is in a "state of war against us," and defended what he described as "targeted strikes against specific Al Qaeda terrorists." "We conduct those strikes because they are necessary to mitigate ongoing actual threats, to stop pl ...

Presidents impeached and why: 1. 1867- Andrew Johnson - President: Attempted illegal removal of war secretary, inducement of a General to violate an act of Congress and contempt and reproach of Congress. 2. (1974) - Richard Nixon --- President: Obstructing justice, abusing constitutional authority, and failing to obey subpoenas. (He resigned before the impeachment was signed) 3.1998 - William J Clinton --- President: Perjury before a Federal Grand Jury & Obstruction of Justice (the other two charges, Perjury in Paula Jones case & Abuse of Power were not upheld)!!! Now here is what Obama has done: •First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government • First President to Violate the War Powers Act • First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels • First President to issue an unlawful "recess-appointment" while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department). • First President to be Held ...

LPS settles case Mortgage servicing giant Lender Processing Services entered into an agreement with the US Department of Justice to pay $35 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into foreclosure fraud by the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. The settlement includes a payment by LPS of $20 million to the US Marshals Service and $15 million to the US Department of Treasury, the company announced in a statement. "The conclusion of the Justice Department's inquiry is another positive step for LPS," said President and CEO Hugh Harris of LPS. He added, "Coupled with recent settlements with multiple state attorneys general, as well as other litigation, LPS has effectively dealt with its legacy issues related to past business practices and is squarely focused on delivering leading technology-driven solutions to enable the mortgage industry to meet its new requirements." Public sector pay raise blocked by GOP House conservatives want to extend to a full three years the curren ...

Most Terrorist Plots in the US Aren't Invented by Al Qaeda -- They're Manufactured by the FBI In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists. Antonio Martinez was a punk. The twenty-two-year-old from Baltimore was chunky, with a wide nose and jet-black hair pulled back close to his scalp and tied into long braids that hung past his shoulders. He preferred to be called Muhammad Hussain, the name he gave himself following his conversion to Islam. But his mother still called him Tony, and she couldn’t understand her son’s burning desire to be the Maryland Mujahideen. As a young man, Martinez had been angry and lost. He’d dropped out of Laurel High School, in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and spent his teens as a small-time thief in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. By the age of sixteen, he’d been charged with armed robbery. In February 2008, at the age of eighteen, he t ...

It's always been about instituting the sharia. This is the Muslim Brotherhood in America. Hamas-CAIR is "an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department – and CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.

Federal and Civil Law Enforcement. If I ask the US Justice Department a question who made those Dead Man waking body electronics devices and why was the focus my body at large rather then other normal people. The Movie Green Mile is an example why the big guy gave up who took the wrap for something he never done. The reality of it...the family of them 2 little girls in the movie. The family lied on John Coffie. US Federal Magistrate Judge Advocate General, Fleet Admiral USN,

First, let's spell the word right: it's spelled "judicial" (with another "i" in the back end between the "c" and the "a")," not "judical." I assume that you're talking about the three different "branches" of our government. Here's a way to remember what they mean: Our country's LEGISLATIVE branch (the U.S. Congress) is the "legal" branch of our government (get it? LEGal and LEGislative?) The legislative branch of government makes LEGAL laws to govern how our country behaves and operates. They make LAWS _LEGAL_ (laws that must be observed by everyone). Got it? "LEG" = "LEGAL" Our country's EXECUTIVE branch _EXECUTES_ the laws that Congress passes. Congress PASSES LEGAL LAWS. The country's EXECUTIVE branch (The President, the Justice Department, Department of Labor, etc.) makes sure that these laws are obeyed by all the citizens of our country. They EXECUTE (put into force) the laws by making sure everyone knows about them and obeys them. Think of it this way: If you don't obey the laws, the EXECUTIVE branc ...

The Media Assault on Christianity When Reggie White, an ordained minister and All-Pro defensive end for the Green Bay Packers, stated in a speech his Christian beliefs regarding homosexuality, CBS almost immediately cancelled his pending sportscasting contract. During his speech, White declared that he is "offended" by the comparison of struggles of homosexual groups to those of blacks. "Homosexuality is a decision. It's not a race," he said. At about the same time, CBS announced plans to air the Howard Stern Show, featuring raunchy language, nudity and graphic sexual content. Nike agreed to retain Reggie as a spokesman, but Nike Chairman Phil Knight denounced Reggie as "crazy." Campbell Soup Company declines to renew Reggie's endorsement contract, saying that his "comments are not consistent with the principles of the Campbell Soup Company." Supported by the Justice Department, the news media characterizes Christians who choose to believe in the Bible as cultists. Numerous examples of this bigotry is evi ...

THE MOSSAD PRIDES ITSELF ON DEEP infiltration & penetration into every ‘Muslim’ militant group in the world. Thus any media-hyped ‘terrorist’ attack reported by the Jewish occupied press is doubtless a Mossad operation. All of the Mossad-engineered ‘terrorist’ attacks benefit the Jews since it galvanizes the Western world into making Israel’s enemies their own - and gives Israel a free hand in dealing with the Palestinians who are looked upon as enemies of the world. The infiltration of the Mossad into the US political & military infrastructure had its greatest impetus in the 1980’s during the Reagan & Bush Sr administrations. 3 Zionist Jews with close ties to the Mossad held influential offices in the Pentagon during this period: Richard Perle: Perle worked at the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy from 1981 to 1987. Prior to this, Perle was investigated by the US Justice Department for discussing classified information with an employee at the Isr ...

Obama Drone Policy 'Fraught With Constitutional Problems,' Sen. Mike Lee Says Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama's drone policy was "fraught with constitutional problems." In an interview on the "Laura Ingraham Show," Lee criticized the Justice Department's legal reasoning on the targeted killings of American citizens. "I really don't like the legal justification because it's not a legal justification at all," Lee told Ingarahm. "There's no legal analysis in it at all." Ingraham asked Lee for his reaction to an interview conducted by The Huffington Post with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), where she commented that "it just depends" whether the public should be informed of the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen. "I'm... ~GeeK3r

Gun control may still be very much a topic for national conversation, and the prospects of some variety of gun control legislation may look better for anti-gun forces than they have in nearly 20 years, but a Justice Department internal memo from early in the year that just got...

Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke If you've ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you've ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or "drug paraphernalia" in your gym bag, Assistant Attorney General and longtime Bill Clinton pal Lanny Breuer has a message for you: Bite me. Breuer this week signed off on a settlement deal with the British banking giant HSBC that is the ultimate insult to every ordinary person who's ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge. Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a "record" financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank. The banks' laundering transact ...

Big Blue Media: Making All Things Blue Last week there were over 400,000 people that had travelled to D.C. to make their views known about abortion. We didn’t much hear about it because it got “blued”. “Blue-ing” is the process that occurs when Big Blue Media reshapes reality so that the images we see on the screen always come out looking blue. It’s like living in Avatar. People love it, but it isn’t real. If the protesters had been protesting a blue issue and had only numbered a hundred, they would have made the front page everywhere. I’ve written before about the act of our President several years ago declaring that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional and ordering the Justice Department not to defend it. That got “blued”. If it had been a red President who had done the same with the Endangered Species Act, or any blue-favored law, Big Blue Media would have crucified him. They would have flooded us with interviews with the angry and irate, days and days of increasing accu ...

Mr. McGaughey, I have posted information and links to my face book page notes, i have asked the FBI for over a year to help, along with the Justice Department. I have quotes directly out of the book by Robert F. Kennedy, The Pursuit of Justice, and laws from another book and books, Psychology and Law for the helping professions by Leland C. Swenson, You And The Law, by Readers Digest, Introduction to Law Enforcement and criminal justice, etc. etc. All books I have had and have been studying intently for over two years to try and defend myself, in addition going through the extraordinary task of 'phsician heal thy self' as I have had NO support in my community from ANY health care provider, I have also had to defend myself against the most malicious and cruel tactics taken aganist any one person by the police, a whole gang of them- out for me for over 2 years of abuses! I have to go there this morning for another confrontation and accusations and threats 'did you take your meds, mary, ' because, you see, t ...

+2 0 Following Obama’s choreographed attack on the Second Amendment earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security announced it will join the administration, the Justice Department and the FBI in a renewed attack on firearms. Under the guise of preventing what is largely unpreventable sho...

Ever since President Obama’s sweeping embrace of *** equality in his recent Inaugural Address, the question for legal observers has been whether his Justice Department will follow up with Supreme Court arguments to match.

In this short video from the NRA, an internal Justice Department (the same Justice Department ran by Eric ‘Fast and Furious’ Holder), it is revealed that the Obama administrations own research shows that an assault weapons ban would only be effective with mandatory gun confiscation and that universa...

The Central Intelligence Agency recently found additional photos of Osama Bin Laden's corpse, the Department of Justice acknowledged in a Friday letter. Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch's Michael Bekesha, Justice Department attorney Marcia Berman said that the CIA...

Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists and got away with it By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone The deal was announced quietly, just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians, lawyers and investigators all over the world, the U.S. Justice Department granted a total walk to executives of the British-based bank HSBC for the largest drug-and-terrorism money-laundering case ever. Yes, they issued a fine – $1.9 billion, or about five weeks' profit – but they didn't extract so much as one dollar or one day in jail from any individual, despite a decade of stupefying abuses. People may have outrage fatigue about Wall Street, and more stories about billionaire greedheads getting away with more stealing often cease to amaze. But the HSBC case went miles beyond the usual paper-pushing, keypad-punching sort-of crime, committed by geeks in ties, normally associated ...

The program has made some limited information available to the public on its website: It provides 24-hour protection to all witnesses while they are in a high-threat environment; witnesses receive financial assistance for housing and subsistence for basic living expenses and medical care; the program also provides for job training and employment assistance. In an interview with CNN, Gerald Shur, who created the program, offered insight into the inner workings of this secretive government service. Shur was an attorney in what was then the Justice Department's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section in the 1960s when he developed the idea to protect witnesses. "It occurred to me that we have to have a way that if a guy is in danger because of his testimony, we have to get him out of there, and in a second," said Shur, 79, who is now retired. But the transition to a new life doesn't always come easily, he said. "It takes time for them to adjust, " Shur said. "(A witness) not only has to deal with leaving hi ...

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS REPORT: It is an unprecedented act for this information to be released to the public. WE should not allow this to remain in the hands of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty. He has historically back white officers in the shooting of Black males. Let us not forget Brandon McCloud gunned down in his bedroom by 2 white officers. He has always been endorsed by the police unions for his political seats. He should recuse himself from this case and ask that the Justice Department prosecute this case. It does not make sense that Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine and BCI completed an investigation that was started simultaneous with Mike Dewine's & McGinty's offices and no charges have been filed to date. Our black leaders want us to wait. WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? Read the report for your selves and then tell this community what it is waiting for.

These people can't sell us out fast enough. News: Watchdog House leaders demand investigation of claims NASA leaked U.S. space defense secrets, Justice Department quashed prosecutions February 13, 2013 | 4:06 pm 3Comments Rep. Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, is calling for an FBI and Department of Justice Inspector General probe of allegations of improper political influence against a prosecution of foreign nationals working at NASA's Research Center near San Francisco. Joining the Texas Republican is Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf, who chairs a key subcommittee of Smith's panel. (AP Photo) Richard *** Watchdog Team The Washington Examiner Popular in News Gun ban would protect more than 2,200 firearms States' choices set up national health experiment Jesse Jackson Jr., wife agree to plead guilty Obama giving Allen time to decide posting Brennan open to special court for drone strikes Congressmen Lamar Smith and Frank Wolf want investigations by the FBI and the ...

Anybody out there planning to plant a vegetable garden? You first, should plan to move to a free country, with a government not wholly owned by corporations. Two days from now the Justice Department (lap dogs for corporations) will slither into the Supreme Court (also for sale to the highest bidder) and tell farmers, who are dumb enough to try to farm in America, if they buy seeds from Monsanto(the very personification of evil corporation) and their first year crops produce seeds (just like they always have) the farmer who plants the seeds from his own crop will be thrown in jail because the vile, reptilian *** in the Justice Department along with local unfit judges side with the highest bidder and to *** with the US farmers. “Judicial” decisions have already been made by those who love power and hate America, if Monsanto sells you seeds, they own the part of your crop that produces more seeds, from now until they drive you from your land with high prices and government collusion. So think twi ...

A California man agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with bankers at two Israeli banks to hide offshore accounts and their income from the Internal Revenue Service, according to Justice Department court filings.

The rate of partner-to-partner violence dropped 64 percent between 1994 and 2010, a Justice Department report has found. The trend, almost unnoticed, stems from a broad shift in attitude toward domestic violence.

participate in Obama's Q&A today, and ask the following: 1. Who is John Galt? 2. Who is Harrison J. Bournell? (Name associated with Obama's Social Security Number) 3. Why have you been wearing that ring that appears to be a wedding ring before you we're married, and what does it stand for? 4. Was Christopher Dorner a "modern day" Django as Professor Mark Lamont Hill has said? 5. Has your Justice Department launched an inquiry into the death of Christopher Dorner and his allegations of corruption and racism in the LAPD? 6. Will you please sign a release of your birth certificate for me so I can get a certified copy of my own from the Hawaii Department of Health. 7. Will you please sign a release for your Occidential College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School student records? 8. Where is your Pakistani roommate from Occidential College? 9. Where were you really born, and why did you claim for 16 years that you we're born in Kenya? 10. Hey buddy, can you spare a dime?

"Saturday Night Massacre" Main article: Saturday Night Massacre When Cox refused to drop his subpoena, on October 20, 1973, Nixon demanded the resignations of Attorney General Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus for refusing to fire the special prosecutor. Nixon's search for someone in the Justice Department willing to fire Cox ended with the Solicitor General Robert Bork. Though Bork claims to believe Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he considered resigning to avoid being "perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job."[27] To prevent further damage to the Justice Department, Richardson and Ruckelshaus persuaded him not to resign. As the new acting department head, Bork carried out the presidential order and dismissed the special prosecutor. These actions met considerable public criticism. Responding to the allegations of possible wrongdoing, in front of 400 Associated Press managing editors on November 17, 1973, Nixon stated emphatically, "I'm not a crook."[28][29 ...

There's been much comment on the Obama administration's recently leaked Justice Department white paper on the targeted killing of U.S. citizens overseas, but most of the debate has focused on the administration's Orwellian interpretation of the term "imminence." Less remarked upon has been its equal...

In my long-ago abandoned screenplay for “Tom Swift and His Electric Liberal Arts Degree”, Tom's radical new insights into Finnegan’s Wake were going to put America years beyond the Russians in close-reading technology. I guess the Justice Department has been cooking up something similar.

In more than fifty years of service in the public and private sectors, former attorney general Ramsey Clark has consistently challenged the abuse of power and taken up the cause of the oppressed. During his tenure at the Justice Department, which included a stint as U.S. Attorney General during the…

San Diego Mayor Obviously loved to gamble !!! SAN DIEGO (AP) — Maureen O'Connor was a physical education teacher who won a seat on the San Diego City Council when she was only 25 years old, later winning two terms as the city's first female mayor as she charmed voters with a populist flair. But her rapid rise was matched by her fall, culminating Thursday when she acknowledged in federal court that she took $2.1 million from her late husband's charitable foundation during a decade-long gambling spree in which she won — and lost — more than $1 billion. O'Connor pleaded not guilty to a money laundering charge in an agreement with the Justice Department that defers prosecution for two years while she tries to repay the foundation and receives treatment for gambling. O'Connor, 66, once had a personal fortune that her attorney estimated between $40 million and $50 million, inherited from her husband of 17 years, Robert O. Peterson, founder of the Jack in the Box Inc. fast-food chain. She is now virtually ...

High stakes if Apple e-books antitrust case goes to trial Apple is last company standing in US government's e-book antitrust case. As the only remaining defendant in the US government's e-books antitrust case, Apple appears headed for a high-stakes trial that could significantly increase the personal computer company's liability in related litigation. Apple faces a 3 June trial date over civil allegations by the US Department of Justice that it conspired with five publishers to raise the price of e-books and to fight the dominance of Amazon.com. On Friday, Macmillan became the fifth and final publisher to settle with the government. The Justice Department alleges that Apple came to agreements with each of the publishers meant to ensure that e-book prices at its iBookstore and other retailers would remain higher than those offered by Amazon.com. At the Apple trial, to be overseen by US District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan, the Justice Department will seek not monetary damages but a judicial decree that ...

15 Feb 2013 Cape Breton Post, By Sherry Mulley MacDonald SPECIAL TO THE CAPE BRETON POST UNIA promotes LEAD program, integral part of providing assistance to teens GLACE BAY The Universal *** Improvement Association has imported a successful program from Los Angeles to help address issues like drugs and violence among teens. The Legal Enrichment and Decisionmaking (LEAD) initiative is offered through the federal Justice Department and operates from the UNIA office in Glace Bay and from the Whitney Pier Youth Centre. According to association board member Al Moore, the program provides students in Grade 5 to Grade 8 the opportunity to work with individuals and groups in positions of authority to gain the knowledge they will need to make choices that will help them avoid conflict with the law. “As a cultural museum, educational centre and employment outreach organization, we are very busy organizing programs, providing assistance with employment and working with the community to foster a better understan . ...

This past week has been a strangely clarifying political moment. It was caused by two related events: the leak of the Justice Department's "white paper" justifying Obama's claimed power to execute Americans without charges, followed by John Brennan's alarming confirmation hearing (as Charles Pierce…