The U.S. Department of Justice has filed criminal charges alleging that a former BP employee destroyed critical evidence in the early days of the Gulf oil spill.... Read more»
President Obama is being forced to modify his absurdly wrong claim that it would be “unprecedented” for the Supreme Court to strike down the new health care law.... Read more»
House members accused Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday of stonewalling their probe of Operation Fast and Furious, and threatened him with contempt unless the Justice Department hands over thousands more documents.... Read more»1
Operation Fast and Furious was the fourth “gun–walking” investigation run by the ATF in the Phoenix area, according to a congressional report released Tuesday. The four operations began in 2006 and let roughly 2,800 firearms walk into the hands of drug cartels and other criminals.... Read more»
Calling the nation’s immigration laws “sorely outdated and in need of revision,” Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano pressed Monday for passage of the DREAM Act, saying it is the most-urgently needed change to immigration policy.... Read more»2
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa has launched a website documenting the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.... Read more»2
A group of House members Tuesday demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder step down for his handling of the controversial Operation Fast and Furious.... Read more»1
Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate committee Tuesday that a gun–trafficking investigation that let thousands of guns “walk” into the hands of criminals should have “never happened.”... Read more»1
A House committee subpoenaed Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday, demanding to know what he knew about the botched Operation Fast and Furious gun-trafficking investigation and when he knew it.... Read more»
Two men, including an Iran-based member of Iran’s Qods Force, have been charged in a plot to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, U.S. officials announced Tuesday.... Read more»
The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans to subpoena Attorney General Eric Holder this week as part of its probe into Operation Fast and Furious, a plan to let thousands of guns sold in the U.S. get into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.... Read more»
Ten Arizona sheriffs demanded on Friday that a special counsel be appointed to investigate the roles of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other top administration officials in a gunrunning probe that allowed weapons to find their way into criminals’ hands. (with video)... Read more»
The FBI is in the initial stages of an investigation of News Corp. over allegations employees hacked into a rival’s website and its reporters sought access to phone records of 9/11 victims, Bloomberg reported Friday.... Read more»
Last week, we outlined the admitted (and denied) criminal allegations at News Corp and issued a first-in-the-nation call for an FBI investigation. Since, calls for a U.S. look at Murdoch’s media empire have exploded, public outrage is unabated, and the FBI is looking at News Corp.... Read more»
The ATF is under the gun yet again. Mexican police recently conducted a raid in Ciudad Juarez, a hotspot for the drug trade, and they swept up a cache of weapons. Among that cache? At least five assault rifles linked to a secretive anti-smuggling operation.... Read more»
Gov. Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne will ask a federal court to determine if Arizona’s new medical marijuana law is legal, they announced Tuesday.... Read more»
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