Eric Holder Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Eric Holder.
Pruitt: DOJ broke rules in phone records seizure
The Justice Department violated its own rules when it secretly seized records for thousands of phone calls to and from journalists for The Associated Press as part of a leak investigation, the head of the company said Wednesday. AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt told a luncheon gathering of journalists ...
Feds fire, demote employees over NY killing, rape
Federal probation officers in upstate New York have been fired or demoted after a man they were monitoring was charged with slipping out of his electronic bracelet, raping a 10-year-old girl and killing her mother during a carjacking at a New York mall. The changes at the federal probation office ...
Today in History
Today is Thursday, June 27, the 178th day of 2013. There are 187 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 27, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spent the first full day of a visit to Ireland, the land of his ancestors, stopping by the County Wexford ...
APNewsBreak: NSA leaker Snowden not welcome in UK
The British government has warned airlines around the world not to allow Edward Snowden, who leaked information on top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs, to fly to the United Kingdom. A travel alert, dated Monday on a Home Office letterhead, said carriers should deny Snowden boarding because "the individual is highly ...
AG: leaker will be held accountable
Attorney General Eric Holder says national security has been damaged as a result of leaks about a pair of government surveillance programs and that the U.S. will punish the person who is responsible. The attorney general made the comment in Dublin, Ireland, when asked by reporters why the U.S. hasn't ...
Court: NJ can sign lottery marketing contract
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that the state can move ahead with its plan to turn over sales and marketing of the New Jersey Lottery to a private vendor, but the panel still plans more hearings on the matter. Gov. Chris Christie wants to hand the functions to ...
Court hears terse testimony in e-book trial
Macmillan CEO John Sargent, who testified this week at a trial over alleged price-fixing of e-books, was no one's idea of a friendly witness. Of the five publishers the U.S. Justice Department sued last year, Macmillan was the last to settle and the most defiant. The government alleged that Macmillan, ...
Google asks to publish more US gov't information
Google is asking the Obama administration for permission to disclose more details about the U.S. government's demands for email and other personal information transmitted online in an effort to distance itself from an Internet dragnet. In a show of unity, Google rivals Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. also supported the ...
Obama's ATF nominee gets Senate hearing
It was remarkable enough that President Barack Obama's choice to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives got a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Only one other nominee to lead the ATF has had a hearing, and none has been confirmed. But then hardly any ...
Google asks to publish more government information
Google is asking the Obama administration to allow the Internet company to disclose more details about the U.S. government's closely guarded demands for emails and other information that people transmit online. The request was made Tuesday in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller. Google ...
For lawmakers, it's no picnic at the White House
That annual summer ritual of forced harmony known as the White House congressional picnic? Not going to happen. The White House Office of Legislative Affairs has notified members of the House and Senate that the event, typically held in June, might be rescheduled for September. Postponing the popular picnic comes ...
Widow works to preserve Evers' civil-rights legacy
Myrlie Evers-Williams acknowledges it would be easy to remain mired in bitterness and anger, 50 years after a sniper's bullet made her a widow. Instead, she's determined to celebrate the legacy of her first husband, Medgar Evers — a civil rights figure often overshadowed by peers such as the Rev. ...
A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials
Lansing State Journal. June 3. Time to discuss Michigan's charter school standards An advocacy group focused on improving options for public school students in Michigan recently raised concerns about Michigan's expanded charter school offerings. An Education Trust-Midwest analysis found that operators of poor-performing charter schools are being allowed to open ...
US phone-records monitoring ignites fresh debate
A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the U.S. government's surveillance of Americans' phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks in ...
Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare
A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks. At issue ...
What you should know about NSA phone data program
The government knows who you're calling. Every day. Every call. Here's what you need to know about the secret program and how it works: ___ Q: What happened and why is it a big deal? A: The Guardian newspaper published a highly classified April U.S. court order that allows the ...
Arguments begin in Somali piracy, murder trial
Attorneys for three Somalis charged with murdering four U.S. yachters in a pirate attack said there's no physical evidence proving their clients fired the shots that killed the Americans during a moment of chaos as U.S. Navy warships and special forces circled nearby off the coast of Africa. The yacht's ...
Opening statements made in piracy, murder trial
Defense attorneys for three Somalis charged with murdering four American yachters in a pirate hijacking said Thursday there's no physical evidence proving their clients fired the shots that killed the Americans during a moment of chaos as U.S. Navy warships and special forces circled nearby off the coast of Africa. ...
AG: Won't prosecute reporters for doing their jobs
Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them and sending them to the Guantanamo prison it wants to close. Appearing before a Senate panel, Holder also generally declined comment about a long-running National Security Agency program to ...
GOP senator defends phone records collection
A Republican senator is defending the practice of collecting millions of telephone records in the ongoing war on terror. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters on Thursday that he had no problem with the ongoing practice, saying it was imperative in the war on terror. Grahams said — quote ...
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