Word: obstructionism
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But that does not mean that all the mysteries are solved, or that Rove will be tarred and feathered and fired. This has always been a tale in which what is not known is as important as what is, and so the spotlight shifts once more, to Fitzgerald and what...
Judge Thomas Hogan jailed Miller for refusing to testify before a grand jury called by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is investigating whether senior Bush Administration sources cited by reporter Robert Novak in a column outing CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson broke a law that prohibits the deliberate revelation of...
Although the raids took place nearly 500 miles apart, they were staged almost simultaneously and went off without a hitch. At dawn in the leafy, colonial town of Leesburg, Va., local officers, state police and federal agents surrounded two buildings that house the headquarters of Right-Wing Extremist Lyndon LaRouche...
The corporate-reform movement took two body blows last week: the Supreme Court overturned the conviction of accounting firm Arthur Andersen for obstruction of justice, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief William Donaldson quit under pressure.
What does this mean for future prosecutions? The Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-reform law, passed in 2002, supersedes the one under which Andersen was tried-and it broadens the criteria that determine who may be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. Still, says Todd Jones, a corporate litigator at the Atlanta law...