| November 19, 2005 | - The Justice Department was considering an investigation into how the Halliburton Company was secretly awarded noncompetitive multibillion-dollar contracts for oil-field repairs in Iraq.
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The New York Times
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| November 9, 2005 | - The C.I.A. asked the Justice Department to open an investigation to find out who leaked information about a network of secret U.S.-run torture centers (known as “black sites”) to the Washington Post. When asked about the prisons, President George W. Bush said, “We do not torture.” U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley later clarified Bush's statement, suggesting that there were some cases in which torture is appropriate.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
AP
Source 3:
News24.com
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| January 25, 2005 | - The Justice Department threw a going away party for John Ashcroft. His term in office, said one assistant, "served as a full employment program for cartoonists and pundits."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 31, 2004 | - The Department of Justice revised its definition of torture and asserted that it is, in fact, illegal.
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Washington Post
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| October 13, 2004 | - The Justice Department opened an investigation into the Chiron Corporation, which was supposed to provide about half the American flu vaccine supply until the British government shut down the operation because of problems with bacterial contamination.
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New York Times
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| June 9, 2004 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft denied that the president authorized the use of torture on suspected terrorists, he refused to give Congress several memorandums by Justice Department lawyers laying out ways that interrogators could evade anti-torture laws.
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New York Times
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| May 28, 2004 | - The Bureau of Justice Statistics announced that 1 in 75 American men were in prison or jail last year.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| February 28, 2004 | - The Justice Department issued subpoenas to Planned Parenthood for abortion records.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 30, 2003 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the Justice Department investigation of the White House's
exposure of an undercover CIA agent, and a special counsel was named to oversee the inquiry.
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UPI
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| December 14, 2003 | - Other tapes revealed that Nixon was planning to use the Justice Department and the FBI to take revenge on his enemies once the Watergate scandal blew over. Nixon also thought that New York City "should go through a cycle of destruction."
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New York Times
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| September 28, 2003 | - At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department began investigating charges that the White House leaked the name of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame to the press in retaliation for remarks by her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, challenging President Bush's
claim that Iraq tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Africa. An unnamed administration official told the Washington Post that two White House officials had revealed the agent's identity to at least six journalists. "Clearly," the official said, "it was meant purely and simply for revenge." The White House denied that Karl Rove was responsible for the leak, which was a violation of the Intelligence Protection Act and carries penalties of up to 10 years in prison and $50,000 in fines.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 21, 2003 | - An internal Justice Department report identified 34 "credible" complaints of civil-rights violations by department employees related to new powers under the USA Patriot Act; more than one thousand complaints were reviewed.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 15, 2003 | - The Justice Department said that it will defy an order by a federal judge to allow Zacarias Moussaoui, who is being tried in connection with the September 11 attacks, to cross-examine a captured Al Qaeda member who is a witness in the case.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 9, 2003 | - The federal commission investigating the September 11 attacks complained that the Justice Department and the Pentagon were not cooperating.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 13, 2001 | - At last count, 1,182 people had been detained; the Justice Department has refused to say who is being held, under what charges, or how many have been released.
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| June 12, 2001 | - The United States Commission on Civil Rights released its report on the Florida
election, concluding that blacks were widely disenfranchised by the actions of state officials and calling for an investigation by the Justice Department.
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| May 1, 2001 | -
President Bush was apparently trying to kill the government's lawsuit against the tobacco industry by underfunding the Justice Department's tobacco litigation team.
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| April 3, 2001 | - The United States
justice department reported that America's prison population had grown to 1,931,859, of whom 791,600 were black; the ACLU pointed out that America, with only 5 percent of the world's population, accounts for 25 percent of the world's prisoners.
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| August 29, 2000 | - Against the advice of senior Justice Department aides, Attorney General Janet Reno once again decided not to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore's 1996 fund-raising activities.
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| August 29, 2000 | - A Justice Department investigator said that former C.I.A. director John M. Deutch will probably be prosecuted for storing classified documents, including information about covert operations, on his unsecured home computer.
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| August 8, 2000 | - The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service naturalized 180,000 immigrants without performing proper background checks, according to a Justice Department report; the report failed to support the Republican charge that the Clinton administration rushed the approvals in hopes of acquiring additional Democratic voters in the 1996 election.
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| August 8, 2000 | - A Justice Department investigation was announced in response to charges of discrimination against Asians at the Los Alamos National Laboratories.
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| August 1, 2000 | - A special federal review panel led by Senator John Danforth cleared the U.S. Justice Department of any “bad acts” in the Waco disaster.
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