Carrie Johnson appears in the following:
Holder On The Hot Seat Over Leak Investigations
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder has been a lightning rod for the president's fiercest critics during his four years in office. Lately, he's been back on the hot seat with a crisis of his own making: the Justice Department's aggressive stance toward reporters in national security leak cases.
Holder heads to ...
Defense: Too Many Documents 'Classifed' In Rosen Leak Case
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
The lawyer for Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a former State Department contractor charged with leaking top-secret information to Fox News, has accused the intelligence community of impeding his defense by slapping the "classified" label on hundreds of irrelevant and harmless documents.
Defense attorney Abbe D. Lowell told a judge in the ...
Intent To Harm At Center Of Bradley Manning's Trial
Monday, June 03, 2013
In the three years since his arrest, Bradley Manning, the slight Army private first class with close-cropped blond hair and thick military glasses, has become less of a character than a cause.
"Bradley Manning is a very polarizing figure. People either think that he is a hero or they think ...
Former Justice Official In Line To Be Named FBI Chief
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
NPR has learned that former Justice Department official James B. Comey is in line to become President Obama's choice as the next FBI director, according to two sources familiar with the search.
Comey, 52, has an extensive track record at the highest levels of federal law enforcement. He served ...
Senators Tussle Over Proposal To 'Unpack' Key D.C. Court
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
More than 75 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt caused an uproar with his plan to "pack" the Supreme Court with friendly justices. It was an audacious effort to protect his New Deal initiatives.
Now, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has floated the reverse — legislation that would cut three seats from ...
Gallup Nears Settlement Deal With DOJ In Overbilling Case
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The Gallup Organization has reached "an agreement in principle" with the Justice Department to settle civil allegations that the polling company overbilled the U.S. government by providing inflated estimates for federal contracts, according to a new court filing.
A deal could be announced by mid-June, the court filing says, bringing ...
Sick Inmates Dying Behind Bars Despite Release Program
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Prison is a tough place, but Congress made an exception nearly 30 years ago, giving terminally ill inmates and prisoners with extraordinary family circumstances an early way out. It's called compassionate release.
But a recent investigation found that many federal inmates actually die while their requests drift through ...
Holder Acknowledges U.S. Citizens Killed In Drone Strikes
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
For the first time, the U.S. government has acknowledged killing four American citizens in lethal drone strikes far outside traditional battlefields, confirming information that had been widely known but has only recently been unclassified under orders of the president.
Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday ...
Key Charge Against Ex-BP Official In Spill Case Dismissed
Monday, May 20, 2013
It's another bad day for the Justice Department.
A federal judge in Louisiana has thrown out the central criminal charge against a former BP executive because prosecutors failed to prove he knew about a pending congressional investigation into oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico three years ago. U.S. District ...
Justice Department Secretly Obtains AP Phone Records
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Associated Press is protesting what it calls a massive and unprecedented intrusion into its gathering of news. The target of that wrath is the U.S. Justice Department, which secretly collected phone records for several AP reporters last year. The AP says it's caught in the middle of a Justice ...