In April, The New York Times' Charles Savage asked the government to release a list of the people still detained at the government's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On Monday the Justice Department responded, providing one of the first complete looks at who the United States is holding, and what it plans to do with them.
If a federal court determines that the NYPD systematically violated the civil rights of residents through its stop-and-frisk behavior — which the court probably will — the Department of Justice may provide a monitor for oversight. Bloomberg is mad about it, to which there is only one reasonable response: Get over it.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Wednesday is one of the first to combine assessments of the current controversies with an historic look at voters' approval of the president. In that way, it's revelatory.
Bob Woodward is perhaps the country's only official validator of political scandal. For months, Republicans and sympathetic parties in the media have been enticing Woodward to apply the stamp to Obama. So far, they've had no success.
The Department of Justice's trial against Apple kicked off in New York Monday. The DoJ alleges that Apple conspired with publishers to set ebook prices, while Apple argues that there was no conspiracy and that Apple was operating the way it normally does with content providers.
The Justice Department's hearts and minds campaign to the media just hit a snag: The Associated Press and the New York Times have refused to attend a meeting with Eric Holder.
Eric Holder's heavy-handed subpoenas and search warrants have aligned the media for the first time with the interests of Republicans antsy to see Holder go. So the administration has launched an effort to rebuild his reputation, operating under the assumption that it's still salvageable.
The New York Times reports the Department of Justice investigated national security leaks given to Times reporter David Sanger over his story last year about the Stuxnet virus by pulling all the email and phone records of government officials who communicated with the reporter.
New details of the Justice Department's investigation of a leak to a Fox News reporter demonstrate the scale of the inquiry: phone records, access badge information for the media, a CD of phone recordings. All to investigate a leak of incorrect information.
The government will use any and all information at its disposal to find journalist sources, as shown in The Washington Post's report this morning on a Department of Justice investigation into Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen, who may face criminal charges for reporting government secrets.
When, in 2006, the website The Smoking Gun released a secret CIA memo documenting prisoner organizing strategies at Guantanamo Bay, the FBI took notice. Now the site has posted details of the ensuing 44-month-long investigation, offering a timely glimpse into the black box of a Department of Justice leak prosecution.
As Scandal Week comes to a close, it's worth reviewing the policy proposals that have followed in the revelations' wake. There aren't many.
In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Rep. Devin Nunes dropped a bombshell: the Department of Justice had bugged the House cloakroom as part of its AP investigation. It's an explosive allegation — and almost certainly an incorrect one.
The White House took a step Wednesday to try and limit any political fall-out of the seizure of phone records from the AP. By making overtures to renew a media shield law, the administration gets to have its beloved subpoena power and condemn it, too.
The MSNBC host is in high dudgeon because people who might leak confidential info to reporters will clam up because they fear a federal investigation into leaks that he called called for last summer.
The attorney general probably wishes that this afternoon wasn't the afternoon one on which he'd agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. It is, and right in the middle of several brewing controversies, but it's unlikely that the hearing will be job-threatening.
Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tried, in near-simultaneo
The White House commented on the latest scandal-fodder on Monday by distancing themselves as much as possible from the news that the Justice Department secretly snagged two months of phone records from a bunch of Associated Press journalists.
The Associated Press received a letter from the Department of Justice informing the news agency that the government had acquired two months of telephone records for a more than 20 lines associated with the agency. On Monday the reasoning behind the AP intrusion began to unfold in scathing emails and more DoJ secrecy.
The number of crimes committed with firearms has dropped significantly since the early 1990s. The data also offers both advocates and opponents of expanded gun measures fodder for their arguments, and rationalization for their votes.
Mixing Budweiser and Coors would be too much for the beer market to swallow, according to a lawsuit just filed by the Justice Department seeking to block Anheuser-Busch InBev's merger with Mexican brewing giant Grupo Modelo.
The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are apparently planning a wide spread investigation of retail operations in America to make sure your favorite stores are complying with an anti-foreign bribery law. (We realize Wal-Mart probably isn't your favorite store.)
Obama is following up on the goal he set in May to finally repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to hear appeals for two different cases to finally decide whether or not DOMA is constitutional.
Drug company GlaxoSmithKline is out $3 billion after pleading guilty to promoting drugs for uses the FDA hasn't approved, the Justice Department said Monday
Today in books and publishing: J.K. Rowling isn't done with Harry Potter completely, the jurors for the Pulitzer's fiction prize explain why they're not to blame for the lack of a winner, and what DOJ's settlements with three publishers means for the way you buy e-books in the coming months.
Apple and a handful of publishers got hit with a price-fixing lawsuit on Wednesday, with the Department of Justice finally snipping the string on the sword of Damocles that's been dangling over the e-book industry for months.
Today in books and publishing: Publishers are unsure what they can afford to give up to avoid going to court over alleged price collusion, the Clinton White House does not come off well in a former Secret Service agent's new memoir, and the National Book Critics Circle Awards are announced.
The Justice Department's warning to Apple about the company's apparent collusion with publishers on e-book pricing couldn't have been better timed.
Like it or not, Lance Armstrong is not a criminal -- or at least he won't be considered one anytime soon. In a late Friday press release, the Department of Justice announced that it was going to drop its case against the seven-time Tour de France winner.
Anonymous brought down the the Department of Justice's website on Thursday afternoon after it admitted to arresting several Megaupload affiliates in a Thursday afternoon press release, calling the site a "international organized criminal enterprise."
The Justice Department blocked a South Carolina law that would require voters present photo I.D., saying it would discriminate against minority voters, weighing in today for the first time on one of several new state laws seeking to combat voter fraud.
After speeding towards the precipice of total failure, AT&T won a little victory in its controversial quest to merge with T-Mobile by winning a federal judge's permission to delay the court case until next year.
We thought those pricey muffins were suspect from the very beginning because the math just didn't add up, but now everyone can stop freaking out about the Justice Department's exorbitant muffin budget.
Plus: Bill Clinton could have been on 'Dancing with the Stars,' but didn't want to practice
The Department of Justice is extending its probe into the CIA's post-9/11 activities
Google's search, shopping and travel businesses are likely to be scrutinized
A breakdown of the legal precedent involved in Edwards' upcoming trial
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