michael mukasey

Team Obama Asks for Special Prosecutor to Investigate Voter Fraud

Oct 18, 2008
By way of a response to the McCain camp's claims about Barack Obama's ties to ACORN, Obama's campaign has put in a request to Attorney General Michael Mukasey to "turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to Special Prosecutor Nora Dannehy, the same special prosecutor recently appointed to investigate the U.S. attorney firing scandal," according to CNN.
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FBI Coming to a Public Location Near You

Sep 14, 2008
The Justice Department was dotting the i's and crossing the t's on Friday on a new set of rules designed to help FBI agents zero in on potential national security threats within the U.S., allowing them to gather information in public places -- and even conduct interviews -- without identifying themselves.

Bush Claims Privilege Over Cheney Interviews

Jul 17, 2008
One of the benefits of saturating the American people with scandal is that folks eventually stop paying attention. That's certainly the case with Plamegate, which is still being investigated despite the president's best efforts to the contrary and a public that has generally moved on.

CIA: Waterboarding Possibly Illegal

Feb 8, 2008
CIA Director Michael Hayden told lawmakers Thursday that waterboarding is a useful technique but might not be "lawful under current statute." Hayden said his agency used waterboarding because of "misshaped and misformed" direction from Washington.

Mukasey Dodges Senators’ Grilling on Waterboarding

Jan 31, 2008
During a visit to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Attorney General Michael Mukasey irked certain senators by wiggling out of directly stating whether or not he believes that waterboarding is a form of torture, an expected but apparently exasperating dodge in the estimation of Sens. Edward Kennedy and Patrick Leahy, among others.

9/11 Panel Leaders Accuse CIA, White House of Obstructing Inquiry

Jan 3, 2008
On Wednesday, the same day that Attorney General Mukasey announced the launching of a federal probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, the chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, respectively, published an explosive Op-Ed piece in The New York Times slamming the CIA and the Bush administration for "stonewalling" their investigation.

Mukasey Launches Probe of CIA Tapes

Jan 3, 2008
The Justice Department is (finally) treating the CIA's decision to destroy videotapes of agents using severe interrogation methods on terrorism suspects as cause for a criminal investigation. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey (above) acknowledged that the probe was a go on Wednesday and named John Durham as the outside prosecutor for the case.

Mukasey Stonewalls Congress in CIA Tape Inquiry

Dec 15, 2007
Newly installed Attorney General Michael Mukasey swiftly shot down requests by House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders, as well as other members of Congress, for information about the Justice Department's investigation of the CIA tape destruction fiasco -- because the department would seem "subject to political influence." Oh.