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Obama orders review of guidelines on investigating reporters
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Thursday he was troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may "chill" investigative journalism and said he had asked Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. to review Justice Department guidelines for going after...
Tags: Government, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Journalism, National Security
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, University of Oxford, Al-Qaeda, Justice System
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Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises many
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland. He was not accused of aiding...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lewis Libby, U.S. Congress
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Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, U.S. officials say
WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....
Tags: White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Emergency Incidents, John O. Brennan, Al-Qaeda
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Attorney general orders criminal review of IRS
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department began a criminal investigation Tuesday into overzealous scrutiny by the IRS of applications for tax exemptions by conservative groups, an improper targeting that an inspector general's report blamed on a...
Tags: White House, Politics, Jay Carney, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals
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White House to renew bid for bill to protect journalists
WASHINGTON — Facing questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of reporters' phone records, the White House says that it will renew its push for legislation that would offer federal protections to journalists and their sources....
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Jay Carney, Arlen Specter, Arbitration
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Holder defends subpoena of journalists' phone records
WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday strongly defended the criminal investigation into the leak of classified details about a successful U.S. undercover operation, calling it "within the top two or three most serious leaks" of...
Tags: Politics, Jay Carney, Tribune Company, Crime, Law and Justice, Al-Qaeda
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Justice Department secretly obtained AP telephone records
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained records of telephone calls from more than 20 telephone lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists over a two-month period in an apparent investigation of a leak of sensitive...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Journalism, U.S. House of Representatives, Justice System
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Holder recuses himself from Associated Press investigation
WASHINGTON — Attorney Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. recused himself from the leak investigation in which federal prosecutors seized records from 20 telephone lines used by reporters and editors at the Associated Press, and the matter is instead being...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, Lawyers
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Sen. Warren goads Fed, SEC, DOJ to explain no-fault bank deals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, having chastised bank regulators for failing to put Wall Street giants on trial, is demanding to see any analyses that the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission have conducted...
Tags: Trials, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Elisse Walter, HSBC Holdings plc
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Jay Carney, Al-Qaeda, Civil Rights
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Atty. Gen. Holder defends seizure of AP's telephone records
WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. strongly defended the far-reaching probe in the disclosure of security information by the Associated Press and said American lives were jeopardized when the wire service revealed details of a foiled plot to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, The Associated Press, FBI, U.S. Department of Justice
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