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POPSACLU: Justice Dept. Institutes 'Racial Profiling as a Matter of Policy' The piece goes on: “The attorney general today gave the FBI a blank check to open investigations of innocent Americans based on no meaningful suspicion of wrongdoing,” said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. “The new guidelines provide no safeguards against the FBI’s improperly using race and religion as grounds for suspicion. They also fail to sufficiently prevent the government from infiltrating groups whose viewpoints it doesn’t like. The FBI has shown time and time again that is incapable of policing itself and there is good reason to believe that these guidelines will lead to more abuse.”
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POPSJustice Dept Appoints Special Prosecutor Response to Justice report citing lack of White House cooperation in investigation of the presence of political pressure in firing US Attorneys, "abdicating" of responsibility by former AG Gonzales. Astonishing - Bush Justice Dept goes after Bush White House, appointees.
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POPSWhen Rules and Regulations Don't Mean Squat This is indicative of the lackadaisical attention being paid to rules and regulations that are designed to prevent this from happening. This situation is widespread in both the government and private sectors. Weapons and money have been 'lost' or 'misplaced' in Iraq; weapons and laptops are 'lost' or 'misplaced' by the FBI and ATF; personal records are 'lost' or 'misplaced' by trusted organizations; and the American economy is in the toilet. All because individuals are circumventing rules and procedures because they don't take their responsibilities seriously or use loopholes to better their personal financial situation, usually at our expense. And all we the taxpayers ever get out of this is a bogus line such as "We are revising our procedures". As long as people in responsible positions disregard procedure or undermine rules we the general public will always suffer the most.
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POPS'Justice' Dept. Wants to Erase 4th Amendment, FBI to Have Gestapo Power
Attorney General Mukasey (neocon) wants to give broad powers to the FBI as if the 4th amendment is nothing at all instead of supreme law. The Justice Department said Wednesday that in light of requests from members of Congress for more information, Mr. Mukasey would agree not to sign the new guidelines before a Sept. 17 Congressional hearing. Can you believe this absolute corruption and blatant attempt to usurp power for federal policing? There will actually be a hearing in America's Congress to determine whether the 4th amendment will still stand--which forbids searches without probable cause! This right after the annual Sept. 11th propaganda campaign to justify ANY NEW POWERS the government wants, the Constitution notwithstanding. Mukasey has no Constitutional authority to sign or authorize this (the Constitution is above Mukasey, as well as Bush and Congress), but he wants to, after a good propaganda campaign to justify it as "necessary".
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POPSDept. of You Can't Make this $%&! Up! Presents: Karl Rove I mean really, of all the people to say something like this, Karl Rove? And please spare me the "Armitage said it first!" bull. Just because somebody commits a crime does not open the way for others. Armitage cooperated with investigators, Rove and Libby obstructed justice.
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POPSJustice Dept. Wrongly Considered Politics in Hiring The article goes on: Under the changes instituted under Ashcroft and continued under his successor, Alberto Gonzales, the political appointees were encouraged to become more involved in the hiring process, Fine said. Tuesday's report is the first to come out of a series of inspector general investigations that arose out of the firings of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006. Fine's investigators also are looking into whether the firings were prompted by partisan political reasons, whether Gonzales and his aides misled Congress about the firings and whether civil-rights and voting-rights cases were politicized. This is how we wound up with so many underqualified attorneys from Regent University .
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POPSPost-9/11 Memo Shows Disdain for Constitution Bush's "Justice" Dept had written memo claiming that 4th amendment of the Constitution "did not apply". The administration now disavows this position, it claims, yet we see little evidence of their disavowal in regard to civil liberties when it comes to domestic spying, the PATRIOT ACT, REAL ID, or a host of other examples. It was Bush who blurted out that the Constitution is "just a g--damned piece of paper" , when legal challenges were warned of.
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POPSWar on Drugs: The Prison Industrial Complex From 1985 to 1997, the percentage of African-American young people put in prison increased from 53 to 62 percent. Today, 89 percent of police departments have paramilitary units, and 46 percent have been trained by active duty armed forces. The most common use of paramilitary units is serving drug-related search warrants, which usually involve no-knock entries into private homes.
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POPSOur Gulag: The Secret State of Torture "Journalist: Excuse me. It seems that out of an excess of caution, my colleagues keep asking you indirect questions. It would be better to call a spade a spade, so let's talk about torture. The General: The word torture isn't used in our orders. We use "interrogation" as the only valid police method. We could talk for hours to no avail because that is not the problem. The problem is this. The FLN wants to throw us out of Algeria, and we want to stay. Even with slight shades of opinion, you all agree that we must stay. We're here for that reason alone. We are neither madmen nor sadists. We are soldiers. Our duty is to win. Therefore to be precise, it is my turn to ask a question. Should France stay in Algeria? If your answer is still yes, then you must accept all the consequences."
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POPSsecret Justice Dept. memo re. torture "It appears that under Attorney General Gonzales they reversed themselves and reinstated a secret regime by, in essence, reinterpreting the law in secret," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont Its not always true that the truth will set you free. Its taken so long to get this far.
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POPSJustice Dept funding "john schools" This discrepancy between punishments for prostitutes and for johns is outrageous. I'd rather have prostitution be legalized, but if we're going to be jailing prostitutes, then johns ought to be given the same sentence--not a slap on the wrist.
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