By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was Billy Joel who once sang “Only the Good Die Young.” Not so. AP reported that retired Justice Department official John C. Keeney, the longest-serving federal prosecutor in history, died on Saturday in Kensington, Md., at age 89. In a statement posted on the Justice Department website on Monday, Attorney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Senate on Tuesday delivered the long awaited confirmation of Deputy Attorney Gen. James Cole. By a vote of 55-42, the Senate confirmed Cole, 59, who had been nominated by the White House more than a year ago. But he bumped up against Republican opposition, so President Obama ended up giving…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. gets his fair share of grief inside the Beltway, particularly from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. But some of that grief on Friday came from elsewhere: the heartland. Minnesota Public Radio reported that Holder’s speech in Minneapolis at a conference on preventing youth violence…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former Associate Deputy Attorney Juan Osuna, who has been acting director of the Director for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) at the Department of Justice will become the permanent director, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. “Having served with the department for over a decade, Juan has developed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some conservative politicians — mostly Republicans but some Dems — are beating their chest over pornography. The politicians including Sen. Orin Hatch (R-Utah) signed a letter earlier this month that was sent to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. complaining about the Justice Department shuttering its Obscenity Prosecution Task Force. The unit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The year 2010 was full of almost-disastrous terrorist acts from the Times Square Bomber to the the Portland teen who tried to detonate a car bomb during a Christmas-lighting ceremony in Oregon, only to find out it was an FBI sting. Not everyone agreed with the FBI tactics when…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, is in more hot water. Interpol, an international law enforcement agency, has placed Assange on a “red notice” wanted list as a result of a Swedish arrest warrant on allegations of rape and other sexual charges relating to encounters he had with…
Update: Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. said the Justice Department will prosecute anyone found to have violated U.S. law in the leaks, the Associated Press reported.”To the extent that we can find anybody who was involved in the breaking of American law, who put at risk the assets and the people I have described, they…
