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submitted by blueheat 43 months ago, from sfgate.com
A House panel threatened to cite Attorney General Michael Mukasey with contempt of Congress unless he produces documents from an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of a CIA agent's identity. Even as he issued the warning, Oversight and Government Reform Committee... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 44 months ago
A House committee has issued a subpoena for FBI reports from interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the CIA leak investigation. The subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the latest move by Congress... More
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by Joseph Coleman from hosted.ap.org, 44 months ago
The military trials against U.S.-held detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will not be affected by a Supreme Court ruling that the detainees have the right to appeal in U.S. civilian courts, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday. Mukasey, speaking at a Group of Eight meeting of justice... More
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from feeds.washingtonpost.com, 46 months ago
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey told senators yesterday that a 2001 Justice Department memo insisting that Fourth Amendment safeguards against unreasonable searches did not cover military activities within the United States was "not in force." More
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submitted by eooties 46 months ago, from nytimes.com
Attorney General Michael Mukasey was supposed to end the cynical politicization of the Justice Department. But the sudden disbanding of the United States attorney’s public corruption office in Los Angeles looks like business as usual. There were a number of sensitive inquiries under way at the... More
