Mukasey

Newly released guidelines from the Justice Department are calling renewed attention to the fact that the FBI is allowed to initiate “assessments” of individuals or groups without any factual basis for believing they’ve done anything wrong.

If you just keep saying something over and over, does that make it true?
That’s what I was wondering when I read that Attorney General Michael Mukasey yesterday insisted, once again, that President Bush doesn’t need to pardon himself and his senior administration officials who authorized the use of waterboarding and other forms of torture on [...]

Things are looking good for Eric Holder, Obama’s pick for attorney general, formally announced today.
In addition to the highly flattering portrait of Holder as a young man in today’s New York Times, he’s getting praise from some of the most serious critics of the Attorney Generals under George W. Bush.
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), for [...]

By now, most people have heard about The Associated Press report that Sen. Barack Obama has a distant aunt –- his deceased father’s half-sister -– living in Boston who is an undocumented alien. They may also know that Zeituni Onyango, from Kenya, was denied political asylum by an immigration judge four years ago.
As Josh [...]

It looks unlikely that the next president will prosecute Bush administration officials for potential war crimes, to the frustration of some critics.

Justice Dept. report bolsters congressional contention that U.S.attorneys were fired for improper reasons and the White House misled Congress.