Opinions and recommended stories about the civil rights protection and policy. The DOJ is the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation).
ABC News: EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Official Ignored White House Guidance Excerpt: "The official, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, ignored White House Counsel Harriet Miers and senior lawyers in the Justice Department when he told the committee last month of specific reasons why the administration fired seven U.S. attorneys — and appeared to acknowledge for the first time that politics was behind one dismissal. McNulty's testimony directly conflicted with the approach Miers advised, according to... Read Full Story
A significant number of clearly unprivileged homicides coming out of Iraq have been referred to the Justice Department, and the treatment of these cases is consistent. It appears that the Bush Justice Department has no resources to address such trivial matters as murder - which contrasts strongly with the tens of millions of dollars poured into the prosecution of grandmothers in Milwaukee who are under suspicion of registering to vote as Democrats, comedians who operate mail-order businesses... Read Full Story
Arab-American paratrooper faces deportation after Afghan service
A highly decorated Arab-American sergeant in the US army , who is currently serving as a paratrooper in Afghanistan, faces deportation on his return to the United States because of an irregularity in his immigration papers.
Sgt Hicham Benkabbou has been served with an order to stand trial for deportation as soon as he arrives home, despite the fact that he has been on active service in Afghanistan for almost two years... Read Full Story
Once again my fair state of Michigan is in the news (remember GM?) and not in a positive way. A woman in Bay County (north of me) is suing Starbucks for "severe burns and permanent scars" she received 3 years ago (did she just crawl out from under her rock, decide she needed $$$ and say "Wait....let me go after Starbucks?").
According to a Flint Journal article June 4, 2009, Irene Bruno is seeking $75,000.00 in damages.
Bruno alleges that a worker at a Midland (MI) Starbucks Coffee... Read Full Story
For the Un Working Group documentation: “… on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination “, Look [ Here ] Courtesy Of Crooks and Liars : [See my site For video of EriK Prince, CEO of Blackwater defending his death squads] “In light of the growing scandal surrounding Blackwater private security forces in Iraq, and efforts on the part of the Maliki government to expel the contractors from the country... Read Full Story
(USDOJ) WASHINGTON – Fiat S.p.A. (Fiat), an Italian corporation based in Turin, Italy, has agreed to a $7 million penalty for illegal kickbacks paid to officials of the former Iraqi government by three of its subsidiaries, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced today. Fiat agreed to pay the fine as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Read Full Story
Another outcome of the Attorney General Gonzalez scandal is the uncovering of the slow dismantling of the Department Of Justice's (DOJ) civil rights division. A Salon magazine article discusses the steady demise of the division as "the administration sought to recast the division in its own image, by minimizing outside input, getting rid of career people and hiring loyal Bushies." After the passage of the so-called PATRIOT Act and the indefinite detention and sometimes torture of suspects... Read Full Story
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From Spain's Princess Letizia to Italy's Mara Carfagna, the game of politics is no stranger to beautiful, powerful women. Following is a list of women whose influence is matched only by their sheer hotness.
We've rounded up the fifty most infamous female teacher sex scandals the Internet has seen, and ranked them from most famous to least. We do it because we care.
