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Targeted killings: they are too secret
There are reasons to be relieved by — and concerned about — the reports that the Obama administration is preparing a "playbook" of rules for targeted killings of suspected terrorists abroad. If drone-strike assassinations — which have...
Tags: Justice System, U.S. Congress, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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In right-wing delusions, Obama's gun control plan is monarchy
Even before President Obama announced his proposed gun control measures, right-wing paranoids and Republican members of Congress were raving about impeachment, incipient monarchy and civil war. Obama’s proposal is expected to include a call for...
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Politics, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Ted Nugent
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Grief unending for Sandy Hook -- 'There is no answer to this'
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- People in this idyllic New England town returned on Thursday morning to the church that has served as the centerpiece of its grief and mourned another of the town’s young victims killed last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Roxbury, Joe Biden, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism
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Aaron Swartz suicide has U.S. lawmakers scrutinizing prosecutors
Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that's morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide...
Tags: Zoe Lofgren, Freedom of Information Act, Justice System, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice
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Treasury Secretary Geithner reportedly wants to leave by month's end
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, the last remaining member of President Obama's original economic team, has made it clear he did not intend to stay in the high-pressure job for more than four years. And now, with Obama set to be...
Tags: Jack Lew, Politics, John Kerry, White House, U.S. Congress
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Eric Holder: U.S. can target citizens overseas in terror fight
Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. defended the U.S. right to target and kill American citizens overseas in the war on terror, telling an audience at the Northwestern University law school that when those individuals pose a real threat to this country and...Tags: Northwestern University, Justice System, Politics, White House, Crime, Law and Justice
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Atty. Gen. Holder accuses critics of politicizing 'Fast and Furious' case
Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., under fire for his Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious, accused his Republican congressional critics of politicizing the failed gun-tracking program and warned that many of the more than 2,000 lost firearms...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Jason Chaffetz, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Court asked to reconsider ruling on bone marrow compensation
Nation NowBone marrow transplant: The Obama administration has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow compensation to people donating bone marrow cells harvested from their bloodstreams.... -
Holder's 'Fast and Furious' testimony draws rebuke from victim's kin
The family of a slain border agent is blasting Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. for his repeated claims of ignorance about the tactics used in the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-trafficking sting.
"If this is true and he did not know, then he should have...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Mexico, Lawyers, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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Voters aren't the only ones who need photo IDs
Opinion L.A.Not surprisingly, the Obama Justice Department is opposing a Texas law requiring voters to show photo ID, claiming that it disproportionately disenfranchises Latino voters. It's the latest example of a familiar trope: Democrats oppose voter ID, calling it... -
Obama defends Atty. Gen. Eric Holder amid Fast and Furious probe
President Obama insisted neither he nor Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. knew federal ATF agents were permitting illegal gun purchases on the southwest border, even as Republican lawmakers released new documents showing the attorney general was given general...Tags: White House, Justice System, Mexico, John Cornyn, Firearms
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