ATF let hundreds of U.S. weapons fall into hands of suspected Mexican gunrunners

By John Solomon, David Heath and Gordon Witkin

Front-line agents and Sen.Charles Grassley are sharply questioning a federal investigation that allowed hundreds of guns to move across the

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"… is concerns were dismissed by his supervisors and initially ignored by the Justice Department’s inspector general.Sen. Charles Grassley, the panel’s top Republican …"

"… g operation turned up at the scene of a fatal shooting of a U.S. agent.The Justice Department said today that Attorney General Eric Holder has asked the department’s …"

"… earlier focus on straw buyers was criticized last fall in a review by the Justice Department’s inspector general of ATF’s border effort, known as Project Gunrunner …"

"… vestigation dragged on for 15 months, in part, documents show, because the Justice Department was slow to approve a wiretap and bring prosecutions. Memos reveal that AT …"

A lack of consequences for sexual assault

By Kristen Lombardi

Students found “responsible” for sexual assault face modest penalties, while victims are traumatized

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"… ngs at institutions of higher education nationwide. Maintained by the U.S. Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women, it includes information on about 130 …"

"… al disciplinary actions doled out by schools that report statistics to the Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women amounted to minor sanctions, although …"

"… colleges rarely expel culpable students in these cases — even though the Justice Department encourages its campus grant recipients to train judicial panels to hand do …"

IMPACT: Issa threatens ATF with contempt for withholding documents in gun probe

By David Heath

Issa threatens ATF with contempt for not producing documents

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"… n that’s not yet complete. Based on long-standing policy, Weich said the Justice Department can’t release those documents or even confirm that they exist.Issa, R-Ca …"

"… ter involving allegations that reckless and inappropriate decisions by top Justice Department officials may have contributed to the deaths of U.S. and Mexican citizens. …"

"… privilege.The full House has to vote on contempt citations. Typically, the Justice Department enforces these citations, but in this case the Justice Department, which o …"

"… lly, the Justice Department enforces these citations, but in this case the Justice Department, which oversees ATF, is the agency withholding the documents.Issa released …"

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During Mitch Daniels’ decade at Eli Lilly, the drug giant paid billions in fines and settled thousands of lawsuits

By Joanne Kenen and Rochelle Sharpe

Eli Lilly paid billions in fines, settled thousands of lawsuits while Daniels was an executive at the drug giant

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"… pany also settled the civil case by paying the government $24 million, the Justice Department said.The department noted that Evista’s first-year sales were less than …"

"… plan noted that ‘Disappointing year versus original forecast.’” The Justice Department said that Lilly “sought to broaden the market for Evista by promoting it …"

"… roposed labeling for this use was specifically rejected by the FDA,” the Justice Department said. Lilly eventually did obtain FDA approval to market Evista for reduci …"

Broken elections, stolen votes

By Susan Q. Stranahan

Were the chaotic presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 an anomaly or a harbinger of things to come this November? Is democracy, as Karl Ro

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"… nounced the Voting Access and Integrity Initiative and directed all of the Justice Department’s U.S. attorneys to aggressively investigate fraud and prosecute the gui …"

"… ection officials who have examined the lists — and, apparently, the Bush Justice Department, under Ashcroft and his successors — have found little evidence of actua …"

"… years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federa …"

"… the franchise of the poor and other marginalized people, but even the Bush Justice Department has turned up very little.In written testimony for a June 6 hearing conduc …"

Weak laws, paltry resources hinder gun trafficking probes, say ATF backers

By David Heath

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is under fire, but supporters say the agency lacks the tools needed to conduct succe

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"… ed in recent months by both U.S. Attorneys posted along the border and the Justice Department’s inspector general.Current laws also keep the ATF in the dark on sales …"

"… TF has only 224 agents assigned to the special effort, according to a Justice Department report. The ATF says those agents are currently managing 4,600 open invest …"

"… top gun trafficking. “They just need to be enforced,” he said.Even the Justice Department sharply criticized its own bureau last November for focusing on lowly stra …"

"… onvict a straw buyer, the sentences average only 12 months, according to a Justice Department review from 2004 to 2009. It’s not unusual for straw buyers to be senten …"

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Assistant attorney general's office approved wiretap in controversial gun probe

By John Solomon and David Heath

High-level Justice Department officials approved wiretap in controversial gun probe

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"… l memo from the office of Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s criminal division, marks the highest-level Justice Department involvem …"

"… for the Justice Department’s criminal division, marks the highest-level Justice Department involvement identified to date in a gun case that President Barack Obama h …"

"… “Authorization for Interception Order Application” – was one of four Justice Department documents obtained by investigators for the House Government Oversight and …"

"… ning about the gun case at a congressional hearing. Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said that the review of wiretap applications is a “narrow a …"

End of DeLay probe raises broader questions about Justice Dept.

By Peter H. Stone

The Justice Department’s probe of the biggest Congressional target in the sprawling Abramoff scandal, ended not with a bang, but with a whim

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"… ng of Washington." A version of this piece appeared in the Daily Beast. …"

"… yist Jack Abramoff and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Tex., the Justice Department has informed the Texan’s lawyers that he’s not going to face any crimi …"

"… aySeveral lawyers familiar with the scandal told the Center they found the Justice Department’s failure to interview DeLay peculiar. DeLay’s lead attorney, Richard …"

"… going to say until you talk to them,” one attorney said.Similarly, some Justice Department veterans who worked on the Abramoff probe early on criticize the departmen …"

Probe of ex-Interior Secretary Norton's handling of Shell winds down, sources say

By Peter H. Stone

A Justice Department probe into whether former Interior Secretary Gale Norton illegally gave preferential treatment to Royal Dutch Shell Gro

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"… Ney of Ohio, and Abramoff — began in early 2004 and is still underway. …"

"… of possible illegal action by Norton to warrant a criminal referral to the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. The inspector general’s inquiry included i …"

Justice Dept. gun-tracking program should share more info with other police agencies

By Laurel Adams

A Justice Department program to help reduce drug cartel violence along the U.S. border found 90 percent of guns smuggled into Mexico came fr

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"… g the U.S. economy by as much as $50 billion. (National Research Council) …"

"… to a 152-page watchdog report.Project Gunrunner was created in 2005 by the Justice Department to track gun smuggling and to coordinate intelligence with Mexican authori …"

"… ntelligence accurately,” the watchdog report said.Another criticism: the Justice Department project tends to focus on individual investigations, instead of targeting …"

"… investigations, the inspector general said.According to the watchdog, the Justice Department “is unable to meet Mexican government’s needs for support under Projec …"

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