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FBI Report Last Spring Flagged Problems With No-Fly List

By | 12.30.09 | 2:35 pm

In May, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released an audit revealing that the FBI’s terrorist watchlist — the list used at border crossings, airports and other points of entry into the United States, often called the No-Fly List — often fails to include the names More…

Footnote Suggests Broader Probe Is Needed – of CIA and DOJ

By | 08.24.09 | 5:34 pm

Following up on Spencer’s post, I don’t feel too sorry for Jay Bybee or John Yoo, the lead lawyers at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel who approved the CIA’s so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” As Spencer writes and Footnote 26 of the newly released Inspector General report More…

Holder Probe Would Be Big Break From Bush Torture Policy

By | 07.28.09 | 12:22 am

A series of letters between Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and the Bush administration’s Department of Justice shed light on a reportedly impending Justice Department investigation that would mark the Obama administration’s first clear break from its predecessor’s policy of refusing to prosecute the torture and abuse of terror suspects.

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