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Obama administration targets reporters in crackdown on leaks
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON First, there was the news that the Justice Department had secretly seized telephone records of reporters at the Associated Press. A week later, there were reports that the department had investigated a Fox News journalist as a potential...Tags: Iran, Fox News Channel (tv network), Freedom of the Press, Court Preliminary, News Agency
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Will Justice Department grant request?
After IRS official Lois Lerner exercised her Fifth Amendment right not to testify before the House Committee on May 22, Chairman Darrell Issa said he would seek Department of Justice cooperation in granting Lerner criminal immunity in return for her...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Pompano Beach, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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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: Central Intelligence Agency, Media Industry, Espionage Act of 1917, Laws, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Light Must Shine On Government Secrecy
The Hartford CourantMamie Till did the unspeakable almost 60 years ago. She opened the casket at her son Emmett's funeral so the world could see how this 14-year-old was shot, bludgeoned, mutilated and then drowned in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan...Tags: Racism, Civil Rights, Fox News Channel (tv network), Freedom of the Press, Government
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Time for Eric Holder to spend more time with his family
Bill PressOne of many good things you can say about President Obama is that he is loyal to his friends. But sometimes, he is loyal to a fault, as is the case with Attorney General Eric Holder. Presidential buddy or not, it's time for Holder to go. You expect a...Tags: Elections, Fox News Channel (tv network), Operation Fast and Furious, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Editorial: IRS stonewalling makes the case for a special prosecutor
"If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that's not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay."...
Tags: Elections, Tea Party Movement, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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U.S. for first time acknowledges role in deaths of Americans in drone strikes
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one a senior leader of al-Qaida's Yemen-based affiliate and said...Tags: Human Rights, Arabian Peninsula, Patrick Leahy, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Justice System
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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: Elections, Fox News Channel (tv network), Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Armed Conflicts, National Security
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Banks still want bailouts
The Philadelphia InquirerThe following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, May 21: The nation's biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out. Renewed interest in...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, David Vitter, Finance, Sherrod Brown, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Is Obama Richard Nixon?
Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics, President Barack Obama's recent scandal-quakes don't appear to fall anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. But by another Nixonian yardstick, trying to muzzle on press...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Espionage Act of 1917, Richard Nixon, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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