Topic: Eric Holder
Attorney General Eric Holder today appointed a special federal prosecutor to investigate cases of torture, homicide, assassinations, harsh interrogations, secret imprisonment and other abuses at the CIA during the Bush administration. John H. Durham was investigating the CIA's destruction of evidence (videotapes ...
The US attorney general is set to name a special prosecutor to probe CIA interrogators suspected of having violated anti-torture laws, US media said Monday.Eric Holder, America's top law enforcement official, will name veteran justice department prosecutor John Durham to examine nearly ...
Justice Department boosting efforts to combat high crime rates on Indian reservationsOn just a single day this year on the Red Lake reservation in northern Minnesota, police and investigators received emergency calls about a suicide, a murder, three stabbings, two shootings and ...
Former AG Gonzales says he'd 'do some things over,' including 'quaint' memoFormer U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he wishes he could " The uproar over the firings led to a series of revelations about the Bush administration's political meddling with ...
Former US attorneys general doubtful about wisdom of investigating post-9/11 interrogationsSix former U.S. attorneys general expressed doubts Friday about the wisdom of launching a federal investigation into whether interrogations of terrorism suspects following the 9/11 attacks violated the law.Such an investigation wouldn't ...
House Judiciary Chairman calls for special counsel to investigate Bush administration 'abuses'The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday urged Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel to examine potential abuses by former President George W. Bush's administration.Rep. John ...
Democrats push for probe into Bush anti-terror policies, despite Obama's reluctancePresident Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies, but his Democratic allies aren't likely to let the matters rest. , said Sunday.Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., head of the ...
US lawmakers reacted cautiously Sunday to reports that Attorney General Eric Holder is mulling appointing a criminal prosecutor to probe if CIA personnel tortured terrorism suspects. "He told CBS: "The (Senate) Intelligence Committee has had great numbers of hearings and written reports ...
Senate Intelligence chair Dianne Feinstein suggests counterterror program concealment illegalSix months into Barack Obama's presidency, his Democratic allies are pushing for twin investigations into Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies.Two senators including the head of the intelligence committee suggested Sunday that the prior ...
by Jim ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices involving the CIA, and is expected to make a decision in a few weeks, a Justice Department ...
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