Stories Tagged ‘White House’
By Ryan J. Reilly | February 23, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters at Monday’s news conference that in national security cases such as the trial of alleged terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Department of Justice consulted with the White House national security team.
Tags: Eric Holder, Justice Department, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, National Security, White House
By Ryan J. Reilly | February 11, 2010
President Barack Obama will help select the location of the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and insert himself into the process that has faced major political setbacks, The Washington Post reports.
Tags: Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, KSM trial, Michael Bloomberg, White House
By Ryan J. Reilly | February 10, 2010
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 Ryan J. Reilly | February 8, 2010
We have more photos of the snow-blanketed Department of Justice headquarters in Washington inside.
Tags: Barack Obama, Columbia, Columbia Law School, Department of Justice, DOJ, Eric Holder, Justice Department, Lee Bollinger, Snow, Super Bowl, White House
By Ryan J. Reilly | December 15, 2009
UPDATE: John Morton, head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency at the Department of Homeland Security, was also at yesterday’s White House meeting. On Monday, ICE announced seizure of $26 million in counterfeit goods earlier this month in a joint operation with Mexico, Puerto Rico and local U.S. law enforcement.
Tags: Entertainment Industry, Eric Holder, Gary Locke, Janet Napolitano, Joe Biden, Mark Sullivan, Piracy, Robert Mueller, Valerie Jarrett, White House
By Ryan J. Reilly | October 21, 2009
Break out the auto pen. The White House is forwarding the Justice Department several thousand pieces of mail from the public to answer.
Tags: Citizen Mail, DOJ, Executive Secretariat, Justice Department, Mail, White House
By Mary Jacoby | August 7, 2009
House ethics committee staffer Kenyen Brown emerged as a surprise choice for the job after the original candidate was eliminated by the White House.
Tags: Alabama, Jeff Sessions, Joe Van Heest, Joyce Vance, Kenyen Brown, Richard Moore, Richard Shelby, Southern District of Alabama, U.S. Attorney nominations, White House
By Farhan Daredia | July 10, 2009
Republican Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn’s controversial screening committee interviewed six candidates Friday for the U.S. Attorney position in the Western District.
Tags: Congress, John Cornyn, judicial nominations, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Lloyd Doggett, U.S. Attorneys, White House
By Mary Jacoby | April 26, 2009
Administration officials fanned out on Sunday talk shows to insist they’ve always been perfectly clear about torture prosecutions: The decision is up to the Justice Department, not “political figures.”
Tags: Robert Gibbs, Torture, CIA, Valerie Jarrett, White House
