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7 former CIA directors try to hide the truth as CIA Chiefs Ask Obama to Stop Abuse Inquiry Obama refuses to halt CIA probe into torture. I just love this because Holder...
Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, President Obama, special prosecutor, torture, torture investigation, veteran prosecutor John Durham
What the hell gives Cheney the right to decide whether or not he is going to cooperate with a Special prosecutor? Last week after it was announced there would be an investigation we wondered Who will take...
Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama, Dick Cheney, torture, torture investigation, special prosecutor, veteran prosecutor John Durham
DICK CHENEY, SLIDING INTO THE ABYSS: Defending the Indefensible In the slow-motion train wreck that is the life of Dick Cheney in retirement, the lines between reasoned sanity, dishonest doublespeak, and babbling lunacy continues...
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Who will take the fall and will it go to the top like it should? Cut it off at the head doesn't only apply to killing snakes! All right this is a good...
Tags: attorney General Eric Holder, special prosecuter, CIA, Dick Cheney, Leon Panetta, torture
Even as the issue of torture seems likely to burst back onto the public agenda this week - thanks to the greatly anticipated release of an internal CIA report - one of the most progressive voices in Congress is arguing that the Obama White House has a...
Tags: obama, violating the law, torture, an internal cia report, new york congressman jerry nadler, house judiciary committee, the huffington post, investigation, anti-torture act of 1996, special prosecutor, attorney general eric holder, department of justice, the clinton impeachment
Inching toward Retribution: Senate one step closer to formal probe of Cheney Ordered CIA Dirty Tricks Program While President Barack Obama has proven himself reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies his Democratic...
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Like his boss, President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr, has scored a first in United States politics. Obama is the first African American to lead the most powerful nation in the world, while Holder, 58, has become the country’s first...
Tags: Eric Holder Jr, Attorney General Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Barbados
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that more than $6 million in stimulus funds will go to Hawaii to maintain or increase public safety while creating or retaining jobs within the law enforcement community. These Edward Byrne Memorial Justice...
Tags: law enforcement, Attorney General Eric Holder, stimulus funding, Justice Department
Posted: 05/04/09 08:22 PM [ET] A civil rights controversy surrounding several Indian tribes could pit President Obama against some of Capitol Hill’s most prominent liberals and black lawmakers...Barney Frank (D-Mass.), John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), John...
Tags: John Conyers Jr., civil rights, Indian, Attorney General Eric Holder, Oklahoma
Meanwhile, the United States is finalising plans to move federal agents and equipment to the border with Mexico to help the anti-drug effort. Mexico's Attorney-General has published a list of 24 drug kingpins in the country's six largest cartels and is...
Tags: U.S.-Mexico, Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, drug cartels, white house, United States, obama administration, Hillary Rodham Clinton