White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto Thursday dismissed allegations that millions of electronic messages prior to October 2003 had been deleted, saying the White House had found no evidence that any electronic data had been lost. Fratto told...
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Libby dropping appeal of perjury conviction in CIA leak case
A defense lawyer for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said Monday that the former vice presidential chief of staff will drop his appeal of his conviction in the CIA leak case [JURIST news...
US House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) has asked US Attorney General Michael Mukasey to help the committee obtain transcripts of interviews with US President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and...
Advocacy group seeks court order requiring White House preservation of e-mails
A private advocacy group requested a temporary restraining order Thursday to compel the White House to save back-up disks of all e-mails relating to the Bush administration. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics...
Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-9/11 Attack on Academic Freedom
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that the rejection of Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky by the administration of the University of California at Irvine as the new dean of its law school because...
White House facing lawsuit over millions of 'missing' e-mails
The National Security Archive filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Executive Office of the President and other presidential affiliates to compel recovery of 5 million electronic messages that apparently went missing...
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove announced Monday that he will resign his position effective at the end of August . Rove said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that...
The US House Judiciary Committee approved new legislation on Wednesday shielding reporters from being compelled to disclose confidential sources. Under the bill, journalists could not be forced by prosecutors to reveal their informants unless...
US District Judge John Bates Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration brought by Valerie Plame , the former CIA operative whose disclosed identity precipitated the 2003 CIA leak scandal [JURIST news...
Valerie Plame Wilson, et al. v. I. Lewis Libby, Jr., et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 19, 2007 [dismissing a lawsuit filed by exposed former CIA operative Valerie Plame against members of the Bush administration...