Dismissed U.S. Attorneys Received Strong Evaluations
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A review of internal reports shows that six of the eight attorneys dismissed in recent months were rated âwell regarded,â âcapableâ or âvery competent.â
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WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales accepted responsibility Tuesday for mistakes in the way the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but he rejected calls for his resignation.
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Lawyers for a Yemeni sheik accused of funneling millions of dollars to terrorist networks say American officials have canceled visas for four men expected to testify for the defense, according to a published report.
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President Bush's pick to run the Justice Department is a talented and experienced lawyer. But does he have what it takes to turn around a badly damaged bureaucracy?
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The Justice Department is scrambling to find willing replacements for nearly two dozen temporary U.S. attorneys, whose time in office is now limited under a law signed last week by President Bush.
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What the Justice Department has said about six U.S. attorneys who were asked to resign. Under each prosecutor are comments from previous department-issued performances reviews and then statements Tuesday by William Moschella, an associate deputy attorney general, about the reasons given that the prosecutors were asked to step down. He testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee.
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Reasons given for asking six U.S. attorneys to resign, according to William Moschella, an associate deputy attorney general. He testified Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 1, 2004 - In a dramatic reversal, the Justice Department acknowledges its original prosecution of a suspected terror cell in Detroit was filled with a &quot;pattern of mistakes and oversights&quot; that warrant the dismissal of the convictions.
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The judge who dismissed the case said that prosecutors had violated the defendantsâ rights to a fair trial and legal representation.
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The Justice Department released a harsh review Wednesday detailing prosecutors' mistakes in a major post-9/11 trial that have forced the government to drop terrorism charges against three alleged members of a terrorist sleeper cell.
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The Bush administration's vow this week to block contempt charges from Congress could prove to be a successful strategy for protecting White House documents about the multiple firings of U.S. attorneys, Democratic legal scholars and legislative aides said yesterday.
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U.S. News & World Report - The departure of nearly a dozen U.S. attorneys--including some overseeing high-profile politically charged criminal investigations--has sparked congressional inquiries as to whether the Justice Department is politicizing the hiring and firing of federal prosecutors. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was in the hot seat today answering just that very question before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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The former White House counsel, Harriet E. Miers, defied a subpoena to appear at a House panel hearing on the firing of eight federal prosecutors.
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Government prosecutors rested their terrorism case against a civil rights attorney and two others by invoking references to Osama bin Laden, anti-American hatred and Sept. 11, drawing immediate protests from the defense.
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LONDON, England -- Two court-appointed lawyers for former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have asked to be dismissed from his case.
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Blog: Documents filed with the U.S. Senate disclose the hiring of four new attorneys, including a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's antitrust division, to push for approval by antitrust regulators.
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Acting at the request of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror.