Us Department Of Justice
Events (787)
- Summer - Fall 2005: Complaints about US Attorney in Missouri Go to Justice Department
- Summer-October 2000: Al-Qaeda Counterterrorism Squad Found to be Illegally Sharing Information with Prosecutors
- Summer 2004: 9/11 Commission’s Zelikow Investigated over Mishandling of Classified Information
- Winter 2001: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Passes at Least One Polygraph Test, Continues to Work with FBI
- 2004: Justice Department Official to FISA Judge: Administration Has Used Excluded Evidence to Get Warrants
- Late April 2006: President Bush Personally Refuses to Allow Justice Department Investigation of NSA Wiretapping Program
- March 12-Mid-2004: NSA Wiretapping Program Temporarily Suspended, Reviewed by Justice Department
- 2005: FISA Judge Complains of Illegal Evidence Being Used to Secure Wiretapping Warrants
- Late 2005: FISA Court Learns of More Warrant Applications Based on Illegally Obtained Evidence
- Early 2006: Gonzales Misrepresents Standard for FISA Wiretap Warrants
- Early 2004: White House, Justice Department Clash over Secret NSA Data Mining Program
- Late 2006-July 2007: Bush Administration Tries to Block Lawsuit against NSA
- Mid-2007: ’Catch 22’ Likely to Stop All but One of the Lawsuits against NSA Wiretapping Program
- Late March, 2004: Ashcroft Recertifies NSA Wiretapping Program
- August 2005-May 2006: ’Connecticut Four’ Case Goes to Trial; FBI Withdraws After Patriot Act Reauthorized
- 2004: Congress Fails to Exert Oversight on Use of National Security Letters
- December 2003-June 2004: OLC Head Goldsmith Withdraws Torture Memos
- January-June 2004: OLC Head Goldsmith Battles Cheney Aide Over Detention of Terror Suspects
- February 2004: Contempt for FISA in White House Astonishes OLC Head Goldsmith
- Late 2003-2005: Some at Justice Department Oppose Bush Administration Civil Liberties Policies
- Late 2003-Early 2004: Office of Legal Counsel Head Goldsmith Reviews Legality of NSA Wiretapping Program, Declares It Illegal
- Early 2005: Legal Specialist Finds Bush Issued over 500 ‘Signing Statements’ in First Term
- 1985-1986: Meese, Assistant Choose Bork and Scalia for High Court
- November 1987: Ginsberg Withdraws Nomination for Supreme Court
- 1990s: US Monitoring Domestic Phone Calls to Latin America; One Company Refuses to Cooperate
- 1986: Leaker Prosecuted for Espionage
- Early September, 2001: Congressional Document Request Causes Dilemma for White House
- 2004: Telecom Firm Refuses to Cooperate With NSA Data Mining
- Late May, 2006: Bush Administration Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit on ‘State Secrets’ Grounds
- 1978: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Becomes Law
- 1980s: Oliver North Uses PROMIS Software to Track Dissidents
- 1943: FBI Director Hoover Ignores Attorney General’s Order to End Detention List
- January-November 1990: Justice Department Investigates, Clears Doomsday Whistleblower
- 1990: Doomsday Whistleblower Loses Job, Security Clearances
- November 1991: Doomsday Whistleblower Unemployable, Living in Debt
- December 1987: Contract for Secret Storage Facilities Canceled after Company Head Reports Abuses
- November 1988: Justice Department Investigating Company Headed by Doomsday Whistleblower