Tag: DOJ
Posted on Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 09:35:00 AM EST
Tags: DOJ, Lanny Breuer (all tags)
President Barack Obama has named four chiefs of the Justice Department.
- David Kris is assistant AG for national security.
- Tony West is assistant AG for the Justice Department’s civil division.
- Lanny Breuer is assistant AG for Justice’s criminal division.
- Christine Varney is assistant AG for the antitrust division.
It's the criminal division, responsible for prosecuting crimes in our federal courts, that I'm interested in.
Breuer is a partner at the Washington law firm Covington and Burling, where attorney general-nominee Eric Holder also served as partner. He was special counsel to President Clinton and defended Clinton during his impeachment. New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens also hired Breuer last year to represent him during Congress’ investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional baseball.
White Collar Crime Blog has this to say about Breuer: [More...]
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Posted on Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 11:17:40 AM EST
Tags: DOJ, Barack Obama (all tags)
The Washington Post examines how President-Elect Barack Obama may overhaul the Justice Department in an attempt to restore confidence. First, the problem, created by the Bush Administration:
The infusion of politics into the Justice Department and an abdication of responsibility by its leaders have dealt a severe blow," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the panel's ranking Republican, wrote in an opinion piece last month. "Great damage has been done to the credibility and effectiveness of the Justice Department."
Next, the possible solutions and reading the tea leaves on what Obama may do: [More...]
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There's been a reordering of priorities at the Justice Department this year.
Cybercrime, the majority of which involves child pornography, is now the FBI's third-highest priority, behind counterterrorism and counterintelligence.
Those convicted include:
...the former head of the Virginia American Civil Liberties Union, an Ivy League professor, a sheriff's deputy, a Transportation Security Administration employee, an Army sergeant, a former Navy cryptologist, a contractor working at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a National Institutes of Health researcher and a U.S. Capitol Police officer.
Some argue it's overkill.
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