Stories Tagged ‘Michael Mukasey’
By Stephanie Woodrow | March 10, 2010 4:16 pm
President George W. Bush’s last Attorney General has been a fierce critic of his successor, Eric Holder. Today he found some common ground on national security.
Tags: Michael Mukasey
By Ryan J. Reilly | February 10, 2010 4:40 pm
Ari Shapiro, who has covered the Justice Department for five years for NPR, is moving to the White House beat. Main Justice interviewed him on Wednesday about his favorite DOJ stories.
Tags: Ari Shapiro, Barack Obama, Brad Berenson, Dick Cheney, Donna Leinwand, John Ashcroft, Justice Department, KSM, Leslie Hagan, Mara Liason, Michael Mukasey, National Public Radio, National Security, NPR, Scott Horsley, White House
By Andrew Ramonas | February 4, 2010 6:12 pm
President Obama tapped Stamford lawyer David Fein to be Connecticut’s top federal prosecutor.
Tags: Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Christopher Dodd, Connecticut, David Fein, Eastern District of New York, Edgardo Ramos, Joseph Lieberman, Kevin O’Connor, Michael Mukasey, Nora Dannehy, Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney firings, U.S. Attorney nominations, U.S. Attorneys, William Tong
By Andrew Ramonas | February 4, 2010 4:45 pm
“I think this letter, in terms of accuracy and professionalism, fails,” Sessions said in remarks at the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting today. “We’re entitled to better than this.”
Tags: Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, Dennis Blair, Department of Homeland Security, Eric Holder, FBI, Janet Napolitano, Jeff Sessions, Jon Kyl, Jose Padilla, Michael Leiter, Michael Mukasey, National Counterterrorism Center, Patrick Leahy, Richard Reid, Robert Mueller, Senate Judiciary Committee, terrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
By Andrew Ramonas | February 2, 2010 3:51 pm
“[Mukasey] has been a leader . . . in helping everyone understand the difference between someone who tries to bomb a convenience store on one hand and someone who tries to blow up a plane on another,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Tags: Christopher Bond, Dennis Blair, Eric Holder, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Kit Bond, Lindsey Graham, Michael Mukasey, Mitch McConnell, Robert Mueller, terrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
By Ryan J. Reilly | February 2, 2010 11:23 am
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey slammed his successor on Tuesday morning for his handling of terrorist trials.
Tags: Eric Holder, Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Michael Mukasey
By Mary Jacoby | January 28, 2010 11:31 pm
The growing uproar is a political setback for Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced a decision in November to hold the trial of five accused al-Qaeda terrorists in federal court, blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. UPDATED 8:23 a.m.
Tags: 9/11 attacks, Charles Schumer, Eric Holder, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Mukasey, New York City, Raymond Kelly
By Stephanie Woodrow | January 22, 2010 2:59 pm
Chief Judge Mark Wolf in Massachusetts has pressed for action against a federal prosecutor whose withholding of exculpatory evidence in the early 1990s led a judge to release alleged mobsters from prison, The National Law Journal reports.
Tags: Eric Holder, George O'Toole Jr., Jeffrey Auerhah, Mark L. Wolf, Mark Wolf, Michael B. Mukasey, Michael J. Sullivan, Michael Mukasey, Michael Sullivan, Office of Professional Responsibility, Pasquale Barone, Rya Zobel, Vincent Ferrara, William Young
By Ryan J. Reilly | January 21, 2010 6:03 pm
In a letter to President Obama, a group of retired U.S. generals say they are “deeply concerned by the hysteria permeating the public debate” around closing the military prison at Guantánamo Bay and filing cases against terrorism suspects in civilian court.
Tags: Barack Obama, Charles C. Krulak, David M. Maddox, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Harry E. Soyster, James P. Cullen, John Ashcroft, Joseph P. Hoar, Michael Mukasey, Scott Brown, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, William L. Nash
By Christopher M. Matthews | January 18, 2010 5:27 pm
The administration is considering holding a trial in Washington, D.C., for alleged terrorist Riduan Isamuddin, the Guantánamo Bay detainee suspected of planning the deadly Bali nightclub bombing in 2002.
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bill Euille, Eric Holder, Guantanamo Bay, Hambali, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Mukasey, Osama bin Laden, Pete Hoekstra, Riduan Isamuddin, Zacarias Moussaoui
