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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Coach: “It Really Was About As Eloquent An 18 Seconds As I’ve Ever Heard"

Coach: “It Really Was About As Eloquent An 18 Seconds As I’ve Ever Heard"

August 01, 2015 Attorney General , Dallas Cowboys 0 Comments

Dallas Cowboys Drawing Inspiration From Attorney General Loretta Lynch

By Todd Archer, Aug 01, 2015 ESPN

OXNARD, Calif. – Football coaches across the country come up with different ways to motivate players. The messages are always the same: teamwork, working hard, doing extra, sacrificing.

Jason Garrett likes to say coaches are a little like preachers; they have to come up with the same sermon 52 different ways.

It’s doubtful, however, that very many – if any – NFL coaches showed their teams a clip of an interview done by Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the start of training camp. It came from a May interview with CBS and when Garrett watched, it struck a note with him.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Trump Would Have Trey Gowdy As Attorney General

Trump Would Have Trey Gowdy As Attorney General

July 28, 2015 Attorney General , Sarah Palin in My Cabinet 1 Comments

Trump: I Would LOVE Sarah Palin in My Cabinet, “She’s a Special Person” 

By Jim Hoft, July 28, 2015 The Gateway Pundit

Donald Trump appeared on The Palin Update on Mama Grizzly Radio on Tuesday.

The popular businessman said he would be thrilled to have the former governor in his cabinet.

“I’d love that. Because she really is somebody who knows what’s happening and she’s a special person, she’s really a special person and I think people know that. And, she’s got a following that’s unbelievable.”

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

arrested in Saudi Arabia

January 21, 2015 Attorney General , BuzzFeed 0 Comments
Newsday Two Yemeni Citizens Indicted For Plotting To Kill Americans

Nicolas Medina Mora, Jan. 20, 2015, BuzzFeed

Saddiq Al-Abbadi and Ali Avi, aged 36 and 30, were arrested in Saudi Arabia and extradited to the U.S. They are accused of leading al-Qaeda and Taliban troops in battles against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2009.

The charges against them were filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, which covers Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. The U.S. attorney there, Loretta Lynch, is the current nominee for U.S. attorney general.

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Will David Duke have a say?

September 25, 2014 Attorney General , Attorney General Eric Holder 0 Comments
Al Sharpton Says He's Helping Pick The Next Attorney General

By Colin Campbell, Sept. 25, 2014, Businessinsider.com

The Rev. Al Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, is "engaged in immediate conversations" with the White House as they work to name a successor to Attorney General Eric Holder, who is set to announce his resignation Thursday afternoon.

"We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder," Sharpton said in a statement.

Sharpton praised Holder, the first African-American attorney general, as the "best" one in history when it comes to civil rights.

"The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community," he said. "We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most."

According to a Politico profile in August, in the aftermath of the racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri, Sharpton has become Obama's "go-to man" on race issues.

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Monday, June 23, 2014

Kathleen Kane: 'Crucial Missteps And Inexplicable Delays' In 3-year Investigation Of Jerry Sandusky --Same AG who pulled plug on investigation into Dem corruption

June 23, 2014 Attorney General , Crime 0 Comments
Attorney General Kathleen Kane of Pennsylvania
By Steve Esack, June 23, 2014, Call Harrisburg Bureau, Mcall.com

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Monday that Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky abused two additional boys during a drawn-out investigation replete with "crucial missteps and inexplicable delays" caused by senior leadership in the state attorney general's office between 2009 and 2011.

But two former prosecutors and a former criminal investigator who led the case that resulted in Sandusky's fall 2011 conviction strongly denied there were two additional victims. Kane mentioned the two victims in a statement separate from a voluminous report done for her office on the Sandusky probe.

Kane made the comments during a news conference in the Capitol, where she released a report that settles a campaign promise she made when she was seeking to become the first Democrat-elected attorney general in 2012. She won the election largely by promising to review whether her predecessor, Tom Corbett, had purposely delayed the Sandusky probe for political purposes while he sought the Republican nomination for governor in 2010.

"The facts show an inexcusable lack of urgency in charging and stopping a serial sexual predator," Kane said in a statement. "The report documents that more investigative work took place in just one month in 2011 than in all of either 2009 or 2010. This case sat inactive for months while a predator was on the streets and a victim waited for justice."

The report makes no mention of two additional victims.

"You look at the report and what [Kane said at] the press conference said, they don't match up," said Randy Feathers, now retired as head of the attorney general's criminal investigation unit. "You have to ask why."

Kane commissioned the report by Widener University law professor and former federal prosecutor Geoff Moulton. Moulton's report paints a picture of then-Attorney General Corbett as a hands-off leader, and his top lieutenants as failing to adequately help front-line investigators make decisions, but says no proof exists that politics played a roll in the amount of time it took to charge Sandusky.

"In short, there is no clearly 'right' answer to the question whether Sandusky should have been charged in 2010, particularly since the question turned to a great degree on the necessarily speculative forecast of how [victim 1] would fare as a trial witness," Moulton wrote. "Reasonable minds differed at the time and continue to do so today."

In a written statement after the report's release, Corbett thanked law enforcement for their work in bringing Sandusky to justice. He also thanked Moulton for his work and the recommendations he made to improve investigations.

"The Sandusky investigation was conducted with a single purpose: to ensure justice for the victims and families by taking a child predator off the streets. Nothing more. Nothing less," Corbett said. "As I have said many times, this investigation was conducted appropriately and timely. Because of the complexity of the case and for the sake of the victims, the investigators were careful to explore all evidence to the fullest extent. As made clear by the Moulton Report, this investigation was never about politics. It was always about the people victimized by this man."

But lead prosecutor Joseph E. McGettigan, his co-counsel Frank Fina and Feathers had harsher words for Kane. They blasted her during their own news conference Monday in the Capitol.

Sandusky might not be behind bars, they said, had law enforcement rushed to prosecute. They accused Kane of politicizing the original investigation by questioning how it was done, and said such gamesmanship not only tarnishes law enforcement but also could make future victims fearful of coming forward.

"[Investigating Corbett's handling of the Sandusky probe] was a campaign promise she made," Fina said. "It was a trick she used to get elected and Moulton didn't deliver for her [in his report]. What's she going to do? She has to come up with something else sensational to detract that she [made] a series of falsehoods to the public during the campaign."

In his report Moulton said he is mindful that "hindsight is always 20-20," and it is easier to connect the pieces of a complex puzzle after it is fully assembled. But he added: "Of course, the risk of hindsight bias does not mean that after-the-facts appraisals should not be taken or cannot be valuable."

Still, those appraisals could further damage Corbett's chances at winning re-election in November against Democrat Tom Wolf, even though Sandusky was convicted on June 22, 2011, on 45 of 48 counts of child sex abuse. Using a timeline, the report paints a picture in which Corbett's top administrators were slow to help front-line investigators make decisions.

A quarter of voters do not think Corbett deserves a second term, polls show. Part of his low approval ratings stem from simmering resentment among Penn State's vast alumni network and its football fans over the belief the agency's three-year probe was too long and its outcome unfairly tarnished the reputation of legendary coach Joe Paterno.

Paterno was fired on Nov. 9, 2011, four days after Sandusky was charged. He died on Jan. 22, 2012 at age 85.

Moulton's report paints a picture of Corbett as a hands-off administrator who deferred to his staff and did not get involved in the Sandusky probe.

Fina, previously one of Corbett's top prosecutors, told Moulton: "Corbett never made any substantive decisions related to the conduct of the [Sandusky] investigation."

Corbett was given a chance to respond to the report prior to it being made public. He chose not to make a written statement.

In a June 11, 2014, letter to Moulton, Corbett's private attorney Mark R. Zimmer of Honesdale wrote: "The recommendations contained within the report are more properly discussed in public. Once they are made public, he may address those recommendations."

The report does not name any of Sandusky's victims. It refers to them by initials. The Morning Call typically does not print the names of alleged or confirmed sexual abuse victims.

But Sandusky's first victim, a Clinton County high school student named Aaron Fisher, who made his identity public after the trial, wrote a book about his ordeal.

The vast sections of the report detail how the attorney general's office, under Corbett's watch, handled the investigation once Fisher came forward. The following timeline comes form Moulton's report:

•November 2008: Fisher, a ninth-grader at Central Mountain High School in the Keystone Central School District, reported to school staff he was "the victim of inappropriate conduct by Sandusky" at Sandusky's Centre County home. School staff conducted an investigation and then notified Clinton County Children and Youth Services that same month.

•Nov. 21, 2008: County officials notify state police. Trooper Joseph M. Cavanaugh and county case workers interview Fisher, his mother and school authorities on Dec. 12, 2008.

•Jan. 2, 2009: Clinton County officials notify Sandusky he is under investigation per regulations.

•Jan. 15, 2009: Cavanaugh and others interview Sandusky, who does not admit to engaging in criminal conduct but does make "damaging admissions that played an important role at his later trial."

•Jan. 16, 2009: County caseworkers write a report and send it to state Department of Public Welfare's "ChildLine" reporting system that is used for allegations of child abuse.

•February 2009: Cavanaugh meets with Clinton County District Attorney Michael Salisbury to discuss further investigation and possible prosecution.

•Salisbury sends the case to Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira because the crimes allegedly occurred that jurisdiction and he contacts the state attorney general's office on March 3, 2009 due to a conflict of interest. His wife is the sister of one of Sandusky's adopted children and he has no knowledge of a 1998 Sandusky probe a predecessor, Ray Gricar, did prior to his disappearance.

•March 17, 2009: Attorney general's office takes over jurisdiction of the case. Corbett and staff under him recall learning about [the case] very soon after it arrived at the agency [and], according to Corbett ,he recognized right away the significance of the allegations. Fina, Corbett's top prosecutor, puts prosecutor Jonell Eshbach in charge.

•Cavanaugh is replaced by Trooper Timothy Leary as the lead investigator and Leary re-interviews Fisher on March 12, 2009, and March 19, 2009. In the latter interview, in the presence of a psychologist, Fisher admits Sandusky performed oral sex on him.

•April 3, 2009: Eshbach meets Fisher for the first time and tells Fisher that he may have to testify in front a grand jury.

•May 1, 2009: The agency submits the Sandusky investigation to the Thirtieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury on Fina's recommendation after consulting with his supervisor Richard A. Sheetz Jr., head of the criminal law division, and Eshbach. Corbett was informed of the decision and agreed with it. The report states, According to Fina, while many sexual-assault cases are not necessarily appropriate for referral to an investigating grand jury, this one was, particularly because of the perceived need to keep the investigation secret," so potential victims would feel more comfortable coming forward.

•Later in May 2009, Leary is replaced by Trooper Scott Rossman and Eschbach asks her supervisor for an attorney general agent to help Rossman. Agent Anthony Sassano is chosen at a time the agency was "heavily invested in a set of investigations and prosecuting involving the Pennsylvania Legislature that fell under the heading of 'Bonusgate.'"


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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Nets Still Ignore DOJ Considering Pardons for 1000's of Drug Offenders --How many were violent who pled to lesser?!

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By Matt Hardo, Apr. 24, 2014, Newsbusters.org

The broadcast networks have still not reported a new Justice Department initiative that would consider clemency for thousands of drug offenders.

As NewsBusters reported on Tuesday, Monday evening's news casts ignored the story while Fox News reported it. The broadcast network blackout continued through Tuesday and Wednesday. Fox News continued with the story on Wednesday evening as Special Report fill-in host Shannon Bream reported that "the nation's top cop today outlined a plan to get more people out of prison."

"Attorney general Eric Holder says thousands more inmates will soon be eligible for clemency," Bream provided the latest from the story. Correspondent Carl Cameron reported, "The Justice Department today announced new guidelines for non-violent drug offenders to apply for clemency from President Obama, and downplayed any risk."

Not just Fox News has reported the story, however. The Los Angeles Times said the administration's initiative "is expected to be a large-scale grant of clemency." Politico noted that the President "is preparing to make much broader use of his power to grant commutations." NPR's Politics blog noted the President will be given "far more latitude" to pardon or commute the sentences of the drug offenders.

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Holder: 'What Atty General has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?' --Gee, let's see Ashcroft, Gonzales...

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Monday, April 7, 2014

Al Sharpton, FBI Informant--Untold Story Of How Activist Once Aided Probes Of NYC Wiseguys --Probably cut a deal

April 07, 2014 Attorney General , Beyonce and Jay Z 0 Comments
By The Smoking Gun, Apr. 7, 2014

 *** Also in the article:  According to its most recent IRS return, which Sharpton signed in mid-November 2013, the National Action Network pays him $241,402 annually for serving as president and CEO. In return for that hefty salary, Sharpton--who hosts a three-hour daily radio show in addition to his nightly cable TV program--reportedly works a 40-hour week for the not-for-profit (which lists unpaid tax liabilities totaling $813,576). ***

When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant.

That same man attended February’s state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande. He was seated with his girlfriend at a table adjacent to President Barack Obama, who is likely unaware that, according to federal agents, his guest once interacted with members of four of New York City’s five organized crime families. He even secretly taped some of those wiseguys using a briefcase that FBI technicians outfitted with a recording device.


The high-profile Obama supporter was also on the dais atop the U.S. Capitol steps last year when the president was sworn in for a second term. He wasseated in front of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two rows behind Beyonce and Jay Z, and about 20 feet from Eric Holder, the country’s top law enforcement officer. As head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Holder leads an agency that once reported that Obama’s inauguration guest also had La Cosa Nostra contacts beyond Gotham, and engaged in “conversations with LCN members from other parts of the United States.”

The former mob snitch has become a regular in the White House, where he has met with the 44th president in the East Room, the Roosevelt Room, and the Oval Office. He has also attended Obama Christmas parties, speeches, policy announcements, and even watched a Super Bowl with the First Family (an evening the man has called “one of the highlights of my life”). During these gatherings, he has mingled with cabinet members, top Obama aides, military leaders, business executives, and members of Congress. His former confederates were a decidedly dicier lot: ex-convicts, extortionists, heroin traffickers, and mob henchmen. The man’s surreptitious recordings, FBI records show, aided his government handlers in the successful targeting of powerful Mafia figures with nicknames like Benny Eggs, Chin, Fritzy, Corky, and Baldy Dom.

Later this week, Obama will travel to New York and appear in a Manhattan hotel ballroom at the side of the man whom FBI agents primarily referred to as “CI-7”--short for confidential informant #7--in secret court filings. In those documents, investigators vouched for him as a reliable, productive, and accurate source of information about underworld figures.
Source:  The Smoking Gun
The ex-informant has been one of Obama’s most unwavering backers, a cheerleader who has nightly bludgeoned the president’s Republican opponents in televised broadsides. For his part, Obama has sought the man’s counsel, embraced him publicly, and saluted his “commitment to fight injustice and inequality.” The president has even commented favorably on his friend’s svelte figure, the physical manifestation of a rehabilitation effort that coincided with Obama’s ascension to the White House. This radical makeover has brought the man wealth, a daily TV show, bespoke suits, a luxury Upper West Side apartment, and a spot on best seller lists.

Most importantly, he has the ear of the President of the United States, an equally remarkable and perplexing achievement for the former FBI asset known as “CI-7,” the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Stop Whining About 'Racist' Voter ID -- and Get Granny to the Polls

March 20, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Attorney General 0 Comments


By Larry Elder, Jul. 19, 2012

hoto voter ID laws, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, are a "poll tax." "Many of those without IDs," Holder recently told the NAACP, "would have to travel great distances to get them -- and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them."

Photo voter ID opponent Keesha Gaskins, senior counsel in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, writes: "While these laws are allegedly passed to secure elections, they impact communities of color in ways only reflected in our Jim Crow past. Looking at voter ID laws alone, we know that although 11 percent of Americans lack government-issued photo ID, 25 percent of African-Americans, 16 percent of Hispanics and 18 percent of elderly voters do not have this form of ID. ... Hopefully our country will never again see the kind of internal bloodshed we saw during the Civil War -- but we are now seeing a war on voting that can only be compared to the dark, discriminatory past of the Jim Crow era."
Does the race disparate impact argument apply, for example, to the push for Washington, D.C., statehood? After all, a majority black city is likely to elect two liberal senators. What about the push to restore voting rights to convicted felons? Given that ex-felons are not likely to vote a straight Republican ticket, a cynic might say what drives the effort is the likelihood of a batch of new Democratic voters. What about amnesty for illegal aliens? Is the motive to bring "out of the shadows" millions of new Hispanic Democratic voters?
A "war on voting"?
Eleven states have voter photo ID laws, including Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, South Dakota and Kansas. Five more states may require photo voter ID by November, pending approval of their new laws by courts or the Department of Justice. And 16 states require voters to present one of several various forms of ID that do not necessarily have photos, such as a birth certificate.
Voter ID laws are popular.
Nationwide, whites, Hispanics and blacks support them. MIT and Harvard Professor Stephen Ansolabehere studies the impact of voter ID laws. Pointing to a 2006 nationwide survey of 36,500 voters, conducted under a collaborative project by 37 universities, Ansolabehere writes: "Perhaps the most surprising demographic or political comparison arose with race. And the surprise was the lack of division. Over 70 percent of whites (77 percent), Hispanics (78 percent) and blacks (70 percent) support the requirement. Black and Hispanic voters did not express measurably less support for voter identification requirements than whites."
Voter ID laws are legal.
The Supreme Court, in a case over Indiana's voter ID law -- one of the nation's most stringent -- upheld the voter requirements 6-3. Justice John Paul Stevens, then the court's most liberal member, wrote the majority opinion: "The State has a valid interest in participating in a nationwide effort to improve and modernize election procedures that have been criticized as antiquated and inefficient."
Critics call photo voter ID a solution in search of a problem. What proof, they ask, demonstrates a problem with the integrity of voting? Popular political scientist Larry Sabato, author of the book on voter fraud called "Dirty Little Secrets," writes: "From voter fraud to election chicanery of all kinds, America teeters on the edge of scandal every November. The fact that so many people want to thwart legitimate and prudent efforts to improve ballot integrity has become a scandal in its own right."
How easy is it to commit voter fraud?
James O'Keefe, the conservative activist who caught ACORN workers on tape giving illegal advice, released video of a young bearded white man walking into the polling place of Attorney General Eric Holder on Election Day.
Young white man: Do you have an Eric Holder? (He gives an address.)
Poll worker: I do. (He repeats the address.) OK. Please sign your name there (pointing to the signature line in his huge book of precinct voter registrations).
Young white man: I actually forgot my ID.
Poll worker: You don't need it. It's all right.
Young white man: I left it in the car.
Poll worker: As long as you're in here (pointing to his voter registration book), you're on our list, and that's who you say you are, you're OK.
Young white man: I would feel more comfortable if I just had my ID. Is it all right if I go get it?
Poll worker: Sure, go back.
Young white man: I'll be back 'faster' than you can say 'furious.'
Poll worker: We're not going anywhere.
Young white man: All right, thank you. (He leaves, never actually taking Eric Holder's ballot.)
It was that easy.
Poor minority voters without government-issued ID, voter ID opponents effectively tell us, are simply too stupid to figure out how to get it. Indiana, for example, offers convenient ways of obtaining ID. If campaign workers can mount get-out-the-vote efforts, including picking up voters on Election Day and driving them to the voting precinct, why not put the same energy into helping Granny obtain ID?

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