By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sometimes leak investigation fade into the sunset, never to be heard again. That appears to be the case with the Justice Department, which has quietly dropped the criminal investigation into a lawyer who admitted leaking information about President George W. Bush’s top-secret warrantless wiretapping program to The New York…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Gerald Fold authorized the FBI to use domestic warrantless wiretaps in 1974, according to the website WIRED. The website, which cites a classified memo recently obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting, says Ford signed a Dec. 19, 1974 memo giving his approval “just one month before the…
There’s no sugar coating the ugly truth about the way things were handled. The biting report also confirms outsiders’ suspicions that the White House undermined the Justice Department’s mission. By Carrie Johnson and Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The Bush White House so strictly controlled access to its warrantless eavesdropping program that…
The government could get burned in this legal game of chess. Evan Hill Law.com Government lawyers trying to fend off a much-watched warrantless wiretapping case in federal court now face sanctions and the possibility of a judgment that the United States committed illegal surveillance, following an order filed on Friday by Northern District of California…
As Atty. Gen. Eric. H. Holder Jr. takes over, we may see some of the secret and controversial actions of the Bush Justice Department that will provide more insights to what happened in the past eight years. By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — “Far more secret memos” on hard interrogations, detention and warrantless wiretapping…
Here’s a ruling bound to stir more controversy. Will things change in the Obama administration? By Del Quentin Wilber and R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON — A special federal appeals court yesterday released a rare declassified opinion that backed the government’s authority to intercept international phone conversations and e-mails from U.S. soil…
