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‘Poor data sharing’ blamed for U.S. government losing track of two terrorists in witness protection
Copyright ImageClick to View Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee. The Justice Department’s inspector general has found “significent deficiencies” in the department’s handling of suspected terrorists under the witness protection… …
Eric Holder defends seizure of AP phone logs to track down ‘the most serious’ CIA leak
The US administration pushed back Tuesday after being accused of undermining press freedom by seizing reporters’ phone records, claiming officials took the drastic steps to protect American lives. Amid a barrage of criticism, Attorney General Eric Holder said telephone logs were secretly taken from US news agency the Associated Press…
Maddow guest: Justice Department surveillance of AP ‘positively Nixonian’
On Monday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the Justice Department’s decision to seize the phone records of reporters from the Associated Press. After giving a run-down of the global headlines of the day, and calling Monday “one of those days where the news “was…
Associated Press accuses Justice Department of ‘massive and unprecedented intrusion’
The Associated Press said Monday the US Justice Department had secretly obtained two months of phone records from its news operations, calling it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.” The US news agency protested the seizure in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying “there can be no possible justification…
Justice Department sues drug maker for paying doctors kickbacks
The US Justice Department on Friday accused drug maker Novartis of paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe the company’s drugs over others. In the second US action against the Swiss firm this week, the Justice Department said Novartis had boosted sales of its expensive brand-name drugs with incentives for prescribing…
Ex-State Dept. employee Marta Rita Velazquez indicted with conspiracy to commit espionage for Cuba
The United States has indicted a former State Department employee now living in Sweden with conspiracy to commit espionage for Cuba, the Justice Department announced Thursday. In a statement, justice officials said that Marta Rita Velazquez, 55, allegedly helped to “spot, assess and recruit US citizens” in sensitive national security…
Mississippi man arrested over ricin laced letter sent to Obama
US authorities have arrested a suspect over mailings laced with the deadly poison ricin to President Barack Obama and a senator, officials said. “Today at approximately 5:15 pm (2215 GMT), FBI special agents arrested Paul Kevin Curtis, the individual believed to be responsible for the mailings of the three letters…
U.S. busts alleged Russian mob gambling ring
US federal prosecutors have charged 34 people allegedly linked to the Russian mob with running a high stakes illegal gambling business catering to multi-millionaires and billionaires. Clients, including Russian oligarchs, wracked up debts worth hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars, the Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday…
Former U.S. soldier charged with fighting for Al Qaeda in Syria
A former US soldier has been arrested and charged with terror offenses after he allegedly travelled to Syria and joined an Al-Qaeda-linked rebel group, the Justice Department said Thursday. Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old army veteran from Phoenix, Arizona, is alleged to have joined a squad of guerrilla fighters from the…
Justice Department investigated Wall Street Journal for claims reporters bribed Chinese officials
The US Justice Department last year opened an investigation into allegations that employees at The Wall Street Journal’s China news bureau bribed Chinese officials for information, the newspaper reported. But citing government and corporate officials familiar with the case, the paper said a search by the Journal’s parent company found…
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