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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 3 months ago
The White House on Tuesday instructed every federal agency to publish before the end of January at least three collections of "high value" government data on the Internet that never have been previously disclosed, an ambitious order to make the administration as transparent as... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 21 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 Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 2 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department said Monday it will require the biggest voting machine company in the country to sell off key assets following a merger that left the firm in control of more than 70 percent of U.S. voting equipment systems.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 7 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The largest voting machine company in the country bought its biggest competitor six months ago without advance fanfare. Now the Justice Department is investigating whether to unwind the merger that put a privately held Nebraska company in control of the voting machines in near... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 12 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe, a nationally renowned constitutional scholar who once hired Barack Obama as a research assistant, is joining the Justice Department to spearhead an initiative aimed at opening up legal access for the poor.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 12 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate committee chairman told the Justice Department on Friday to hunt for the missing e-mails of an attorney who provided legal justification for the Bush administration's harsh interrogation of terror suspects.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 13 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Justice Department official on Friday said the agency did its job right when it concluded that two lawyers showed bad judgment in approving harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 13 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to question a Justice Department official about the internal probe of two department attorneys - one now a federal appellate judge - who approved harsh interrogations of terror suspects proposed by the CIA during the Bush administration.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 13 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates is urging Congress not to restrict the executive branch from prosecuting terrorism defendants in federal courts or in reformed military commissions in the United States.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 13 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are urging Congress not to restrict the executive branch from prosecuting terrorism defendants either in federal courts or in reformed military commissions in the United States.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 16 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder says the criminal justice system has proven to be an invaluable weapon in assembling a terrorism case in New York against a former Denver airport shuttle driver.... More
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by Devlin Barrett, Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 19 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI has concluded that Army scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and further unnerved a nation still reeling from the 9/11 attacks.... More
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by Devlin Barrett, Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 19 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI sought to close the book on its long, frustrating hunt for the killer behind the 2001 anthrax letters Friday, formally ending its investigation and concluding a mentally unhinged scientist was responsible for killing five people and unnerving Americans nationwide.... More
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by Devlin Barrett, Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 19 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After seven frustrating years probing the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings, the FBI formally closed the case Friday, concluding a mentally unhinged government researcher acted alone.... More
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by Pete Yost from hosted.ap.org, 22 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A judge has dealt a setback to the families of two Guantanamo Bay detainees in a lawsuit that alleges former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. military officers and medical personnel were responsible for the detainees' deaths.... More
