Word: probe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eight U.S. Attorneys was Rove's mentioning the names of three he thought were underperforming. Rove is at the center of the White House's lost-e-mail fiasco. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is talking to Rove's former assistant as part of its probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the White House. And on April 24, the Los Angeles Times reported that the independent Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Rove and his staff engaged in a broad range of illegal political activities. What's with Rove's omnipresence...
...assistant U.S. Attorney before Schumer hired him in January 2005. Early this year, he began picking up complaints about the Bush Administration's firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys from sources in the Justice Department and suggested Schumer hold hearings. Now he's the point man on the probe...
...Viet Dinh, former assistant AG to John Ashcroft and an author of the Patriot Act, has been his best friend since they had a nightlong argument freshman year at Harvard about what the framers of the Constitution thought of men's souls. Dinh toes the G.O.P. line on the probe but believes "Preet can be trusted to follow the facts and take appropriate actions." Gonzales testifies April...
This was Gonzales' second round in as many weeks, having joined FBI chief Robert Mueller in admitting how far the FBI had stretched the Patriot Act in order to probe the phone and bank records of 52,000 people suspected of terrorism. Setting the pace in the accountability race was Defense Secretary Bob Gates, who fired the Army Secretary for not firing those responsible for the Walter Reed scandal...
...Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. Reportedly, Musharraf confronted Chaudhry with allegations of abuse of power and then asked him to retire. When Chaudhry refused, Musharraf declared him "non-functional" and referred the matter to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), a five-member body of judges who can probe the conduct of their peers. The government insists that the move is constitutional and justified. But critics of the government - whose ranks seem to swell by the day - say the government wanted to sideline Chaudhry, an abrasive if efficient judge appointed two years ago by Musharraf, because...