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Operation Falcon is a big success
Tags: contracting , Operations Falcon , US Marshals , Tommy Thompson
Issa: 'Fast and furious' subpoenas issued soon
The chairman of the House oversight committee said Sunday that he could send subpoenas to the Obama administration as soon as this week over weapons lost amid the Mexican drug war.
Tags: Darrell Issa , Operation Fast and Furious , Eric Holder , ATF
Republicans clash with AG on Fast and Furious
Attorney General Eric Holder clashed Thursday with congressional Republicans seeking more information about a flawed gun-trafficking investigation in Arizona.
Tags: Eric Holder , Congress , House , Darrell Issa , Fast and Furious , House Oversight and Government Reform Commitee
A Long Fall
Prosecutors say a scientist who worked on the cutting edge of moon exploration has been caught trying to sell classified secrets to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence agent. Stewart David Nozette, who is credited with helping discover evidence of water on the moon and has been a leader in recent lunar exploration work, was arrested Monday and charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to communicate, deliver and transmit classified information, the Justice Department said.
Tags: technology , Pentagon , Steward David Nozette ,
Justice Department Oversight
Tags: Eric Holder , Senate Judiciary Committee , Guantanamo
Terrorism Arrest
Officials have charged a North Carolina man with supporting terrorism by recruiting people to fight overseas. Daniel Boyd is charged with providing material support to terrorism. Six others have been arrested. The Justice Department says Boyd, who is a US citizen, trained in Afghanistan and fought there between 1989 and 1992, and when he returned to the United States he recruited others.
Tags: technology , Pentagon , terrorism , North Carolina , Daniel Boyd , Afghanistan
Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that a 2008 law granting legal immunity for companies helping the National Security Agency with an email and telephone eavesdropping program is constitutional.
Tags: NSA , Electronic Frontier Foundation , intelligence , Congress , national security , AT&T , Sprint Nextel , Verizon , BellSouth , ACLU
DoJ's Hitch looks back on a decade of IT changes
Van Hitch will retire as the Justice Department's CIO at the end of July. He said cybersecurity, information sharing and social media and mobile computing were among the biggest technology transformations he saw.
July 21, 2011
Tags: technology , Van Hitch , cybersecurity , Howard Schmidt , anti-phishing guidance , information gathering , mobile computing , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller
One year after FBI closes Ivins case, doubts still linger
Last week, a National Research Council committee released a 170-page report casting doubt on the science the FBI used in its investigation, leaving the Justice Department with circumstantial evidence that many say wouldn't hold up in court
Tags: Bruce Ivins , anthrax , Fort Detrick , National Research Council , FBI ,
Va. to seek high court review of health care suit
Virginia's challenge to the federal health care law could soon become a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme court.
Tags: health care , Ken Cuccinelli , Barack Obama , Bob McDonnell , U.S. Supreme Court , Georgetown University Law School , Paul Rothstein , 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals , Hank Silverberg
