Attorney General
Ex-Atty. Gen. Ashcroft Endorses Romney
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Republican establishment is beginning to line up for GOP hopeful Mitt Romney. The latest: Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who served under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, endorsed Romney on Monday, according to The Hill. “I admire Mitt’s record of fiscal responsibility, lower taxes and defense of traditional…
Atty. Gen. Holder Defends Right to Kill American Terrorists Overseas
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. on Monday defended what he sees as America’s right to kill suspected American terrorists overseas. “Let me be clear: an operation using lethal force in a foreign country, targeted against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces, and…
Justice Dept. Unit to Probe Mortgage-Backed Securities
By Kevin Johnson USA Today WASHINGTON – The U.S. government dispatched 55 prosecutors, FBI agents and analysts Friday to a new financial crimes enforcement unit focusing on home mortgage abuses that fueled the 2008 economic collapse. For the first time since the crisis, federal investigators will be joined by state law enforcement officials as part…
Column: Republican Campaign Against Atty. Gen. Holder Ends Up Being Just Another Exercise in Partisan Politics
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Partisan politics inside the Beltway has been around forever. That’s a given. Unfortunately, these days it has reached such ridiculous heights. That being said, if the Republicans had been serious at all about pressuring Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to resign, they would have been a little smarter and tried to…
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Fed Up
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder has had enough. Holder told a reporter from the Daily Caller , a conservative news website, to stop egging congressional Republicans on to call for his resignation, reports Talking Points Memo. “You guys need to… you guys need to stop this,” TPM reports hearing Holder tell…
Atty. Gen. Holder Packs Up the Toothbrush This Week
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s a pack-your-toothbrush kind of week for Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr., who plans to travel to the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Port of Spain and Trinidad and Tobago to meet with local leaders and law enforcement counterparts and to attend the Organization of American States Conference. In the Dominican Republic, Holder…
Rep. Issa Presses Atty. Gen. Holder Over Shooting of ICE Agent in Mexico
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Congressional members are pressing Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. for more information relating to the shooting death of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaimes Zapata, who was gunned down in Mexico in February by a drug cartel known as Los Zetas. Another agent was wounded in the incident. In a…