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Torture Memo Author Sets Up Defense Fund to Fight Possible Impeachment
The federal judge who helped draft Justice Department memos on torture has set up a legal defense fund to pay the costs of defending against possible disciplinary or impeachment proceedings. Jay Bybee, a U.S. Court of Appeals judge in Las Vegas, quietly set up the fund last July following
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'Heads I Win, Tails You Lose': In 9/11 Case, KSM Won't Walk Free Even If Found Not Guilty
Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged on Wednesday a previously unspoken proviso to the controversial decision to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh
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Home Court Advantage
Giuliani should know better than to impugn the capabilities of federal courts.
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11/13/2009BlogsThe CIA on Trial
…against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators for orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. told them to make it airtight. “I cannot have a case that is not won,” Holder said, a senior Justice official tells NEWSWEEK. But the …
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11/13/2009BlogsThe American Medical Association Reconsiders Marijuana. Will the Justice Department Follow?
…Michael Phelps has tried it (and still managed to bring home eight gold medals); and earlier this year, attorney general Eric Holder discouraged U.S. attorneys from prosecuting retailers in medical marijuana states. There are pot TV shows and cities …
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11/02/2009BlogsObama Secrecy Watch II: A State Secrets Affidavit Straight from the Bush Era
When Attorney General Eric Holder invoked the “state secrets” privilege to quash a lawsuit alleging illegal National Security Agency spying last Friday night, his department
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10/24/2009InternationalWe Kept America Safe
…reopening an investigation that has already been decided by career prosecutors in an apolitical manner? [Attorney General Eric Holder ] has no new information, of that I'm certain. It's unfair to drag the people at the agency back through all this …
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10/23/2009BlogsFeds’ Plan to Prosecute 25 Guantanamo Detainees in US Courts Offers Catharsis – and Security Challenges.
…tell Newsweek there are still spirited internal debates within an administration task force, chaired by Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., about how many of them should be tried before military commissions -- as the Bush administration attempted to do—rather than civilian courts …
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