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News media confidential sources are often what expose government wrongdoing
It took courage for more than a dozen Allentown police officers to divulge what they felt was wrongdoing by their chief, who they said threatened "retribution" on anyone who did so. It also took solid assurances that the chief would never find out who...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Nixon, Yemen, U.S. Congress, Greenpeace
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Rep. Brown asks Department of Justice to review shooting of Torey Breedlove
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has formally asked the Department of Justice to investigate the death of Torey Breedlove, a suspected car thief who was killed in a hail of gunfire by Orange County deputies three years ago. Brown's request follows a recently...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Pine Hills
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EDITORIAL: Probe shows need for media shield
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserIf the three controversies that beset the Obama administration last week, the most serious accusation came from the story with the least political sizzle. The fallout from the Benghazi terrorist attack derived its potency from the four deaths that...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Journalism, Freedom of the Press, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals
Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Monica Lewinsky, Parties and Movements, Tea Party Movement
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Lawyers
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EDITORIAL: Free press guaranteed for a reason
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.Newspapers and media outlets have become used to governments withholding and blocking information. What we're not accustomed to is a government spying on us and taking reporter records without consent. But with the revelation that the U.S. Justice...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Department of Justice, News Agency
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EDITORIAL: Strengthening shield laws
The Frederick News-Post, Md.The Justice Department's misguided seizure of phone records from reporters and editors of the Associated Press might have one silver lining -- it could revive the push for a federal shield law for the media. In the wake of the AP scandal, the Obama...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Central Intelligence Agency, National Government, National Security, Government
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Corporate Officers, U.S. House of Representatives, Central Intelligence Agency, Journalism
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Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota,...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Mary L. Landrieu, Tom Daschle
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Past time for heads to roll in Washington
AUSTIN, Texas - The twin revelations of the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative political organizations and, now, that the U.S. Justice Department was spying on the Associated Press -- all in a few days -- mean this: It is time to air the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, Taxation, Ronald Reagan
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There Are Plenty of Scandals, Just Not These Ones
There’s a familiar template for the “scandals” that have so far “plagued” the Obama administration, in that they are all, for the most part, total bullshit and/or unfortunate events in the vast federal bureaucracy that have...
Tags: Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Nixon, U.S. Congress, Christopher Stevens
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Espionage and Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Journalism
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