Topic - United States Department Of Justice

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  EDITORIAL: Tempting contempt of Congress

  The clock is ticking for the Justice Department. As officials continue to withhold documents relevant to the administration's fatally flawed gunrunning scheme, House lawmakers grow more anxious to get to the bottom of what happened. Unless the material is produced before the deadline, Republicans shouldn't waver in issuing contempt-of-Congress citations.

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  AG Holder, Issa square off over documents

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and a House chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, have squared off over the Justice Department's flawed gun-smuggling probe.

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  NYPD document: Collect intelligence at mosques

  The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document.

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  Holder faces wrath in Hill hearing on 'Fast and Furious'

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was warned Thursday by key members a House committee that he faces a contempt of Congress citation if the Justice Department fails to turn over documents subpoenaed in the investigation of the failed Fast and Furious gunrunning operation in Arizona.

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  Issa pushes Holder to produce documents or face contempt

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was threatened Thursday with contempt of Congress by Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who said the Justice Department has failed to turn over key documents in the committee's ongoing investigation into the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation in Arizona.

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  Dems' report: Fast & Furious not the only 'misguided' probe

  The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday said "misguided gunwalking operations" that began in 2006 in Arizona failed to include sufficient operational controls to stop dangerous weapons from getting into the hands of violent criminals, creating a danger to public safety on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

• Inside Politics

  Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has proposed a commission to study the management of in vitro fertilization clinics, where infertile couples seek treatment to allow pregnancy and large numbers of leftover embryos are discarded or stored.

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  Issa wants key 'Fast and Furious' figure to testify

  The chairman of a House committee investigating the failed "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation demanded Thursday that the Justice Department make a second key federal prosecutor in Arizona available for questioning about "his role in and knowledge of" the controversial probe.

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  Sheriff Arpaio announces re-election bid in Arizona

  Most people know him simply as "Sheriff Joe" - the self-proclaimed toughest lawman in the United States. And, apparently, the five-term boss of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Phoenix wants another four years

• Holder facing further 'Fast and Furious' grilling

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will testify again before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the Justice Department's response to the controversial "Fast and Furious" weapons investigations in which hundreds of guns were "walked" to drug smugglers in Mexico.

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  KUHNER: Obama's Watergate

  A year ago this week, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered. He died protecting his country from brutal Mexican gangsters. Two AK-47 assault rifles were found at his death site. We now know the horrifying truth: Agent Terry was killed by weapons that were part of an illegal Obama administration operation to smuggle arms to the dangerous drug cartels.

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  Justice Department: Arizona Sheriff Arpaio violated federal law

  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "America's toughest lawman," was accused Thursday in a scathing Justice Department report of violating federal law and the Constitution in his department's handling of Hispanics it arrested and held in its jail system.

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  U.S. indicts ex-Siemens execs on bribery charges

  Eight former executives and agents of Siemens AG and its subsidiaries have been charged in a decade-long scheme to bribe senior government officials in Argentina to secure, implement and enforce a $1 billion contract with the Argentine government to produce national identity cards, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

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