By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. on Monday gave assurances that a state prison the feds are interested in buying to hold maximum-security inmates won’t house detainees from Guantanamo Bay. In an April 4 letter to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) Holder wrote of the Thomson Correctional Center: “While we…
In a state where the economy just plain old sucks, this will help out a little. And besides, these prisoners have to be held somewhere. By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press Writer STANDISH, Mich. — Federal and state officials visited a maximum-security prison in rural Michigan on Thursday to begin assessing its suitability to house Guantanamo…
David Iglesias, the former U.S. Attorney, who became the poster child for what was wrong with the U.S. Attorney system in the U.S. under Bush, is working for the government again. By Zachary Roth TPM Muckraker David Iglesias — the former US Attorney who was fired in 2006 for failing to prosecute politically motivated cases…
