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...decision to withhold the memos is bound to be criticized by Republicans - who will argue that it runs contrary to the Obama administration's promises of more open government. At a Congressional hearing last month, Attorney General Eric Holder seemed to indicate the Administration's willingness to release the memos. "It is certainly the intention of this administration not to play hide and seek or not to release certain things in a way that is not consistent with other things," he told the House Appropriations Committee. "It is not our intention to try to advance a political agenda...
...Crist tried to climb into the U.S. Senate but lost to Democratic incumbent Bob Graham. After the election, Governor Jeb Bush appointed Crist as deputy secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Crist went on to win two more statewide offices: education commissioner in 2000, and attorney general...
...Florida attorney general, he was criticized by some advocates of government intervention in the Terri Schiavo case when he abandoned official attempts to keep Schiavo on life support...
...secrets privilege are somewhat abstract, everyone understands the power of the photographs from Abu Ghraib released in 2004. The American Civil Liberties Union sued in federal court under the Freedom of Information Act for hundreds of similar photographs. Strictly on legal grounds, it was an easy call for Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department to decide three weeks ago that - having fought the release of the photos in federal court, and lost, three times - that further appeals would be fruitless. So the Justice Department urged the Pentagon to strike a deal with the ACLU, and both sides agreed...
Karen Sypher's new attorney, Thomas Clay, declined to elaborate on her allegations or why she didn't file a criminal complaint at the time. While the government contends they are irrelevant to the extortion case, Clay told TIME he will fight to include them if the case goes to trial. "There's a very compelling legal reason" for that, he said, "which I'm not at liberty to disclose." Tim Sypher has backed Pitino and criticized his estranged wife, who has filed for divorce. "I think Mr. Sypher is in a very delicate and precarious position," Clay said...