President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2006. (Photo: Ron Edmonds / AP) read more...

HAT TIP:  Al Jazeera English An investigation into a missile strike carried out by US-led forces in Afghanistan earlier this week has found that 13 civilians were among 16 people killed, the US military has said. The military made the admission on Saturday, after originally saying that 15 oppositio...

    Since he took office, President Obama has instituted many changes that break with the policies of the Bush administration. The new president has ordered that no government agency will be allowed to torture, that the U.S. prison at Guantánamo will be shuttered, and that the C...

When prices are artificially inflated beyond the market price for a product a black market is created to meet the actual Demand for a product at the price that is right for consumers. When tickets for a sporting event are too high they have extra that are sold outside the stadium below ticket price....

Whoa! Turns out that Bradley Schlozman is a massive, racist prick. Surely, that wasn't the precise reason why known when he was selected to lead the DOJ's civil rights division....

The president may assert executive privilege to withhold from Congress records of an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity, the attorney general concludes in legal opinion released today. The House......

That's the question the House Financial Services Committee will begin to start investigating. New York Times: Eight months after a federal investigation into a prostitution ring brought about the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the question still persists in some circles: Was the federal government ...

A former Hunton & Williams partner was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for using his firm’s laptop to download and store videos of child pornography. The lawyer, Emerson Briggs, who made partner at Hunton & Williams in......

A South Texas grand jury has reportedly indicted the vice president and the former attorney general. The Associated Press reports that a Willacy County panel indicted Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales on charges stemming from the alleged abuse of prisoners......

Lawyers for former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson plan to petition the Supreme Court to review a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and I. Lewis “Scooter� Libby, among others, after a federal appeals court this week rejected a rehearing......