http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nifongism/ en-us Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:34:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133721/posts A federal judge today ordered the Justice Department to release documents that explain why investigators suspected Steven J. Hatfill in the 2001 anthrax mailings. Hatfill has since been exonerated. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133721/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:34:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132303/posts Joe the Plumber case still dripping Half-dozen agencies access records of Ohio man By Dennis J. Willard Beacon Journal staff writer Published on Friday, Nov 14, 2008 The election is over, but the Joe the Plumber case is not. Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles said his office is now looking at a half-dozen agencies that accessed state records on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. The Beacon Journal has learned that, in addition to the Department of Job and Family Services, two other state offices — the Ohio Department of Taxation and Ohio Attorney General Nancy Rogers — conducted database searches of Joe... ohio.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132303/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:10:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131304/posts Drudge Breaking:Democrats prepare to move forward with investigations of the Bush administration... Ahhh yes....here we go...Obama and the Rats getting exactly what they wanted all along. Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131304/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:44:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113451/posts The woman who North Carolina prosecutors determined falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her at a team party maintains in a new memoir that she was attacked. Crystal Mangum, who appeared publicly Thursday for the first time since making the allegations more than two years ago, says in her forthcoming book she is not "looking forward to opening old wounds" but that she had to defend herself. "Even as I try to move on with my life, I still find it necessary to take one more stand and fight," she writes in the book, "The Last Dance for... FOXNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113451/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:22:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096813/posts Dems worry Bush could pardon Rove, Miers By Susan Crabtree Posted: 10/03/08 12:55 PM [ET] Democrats are worried that President Bush may pardon Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and other key administration officials alleged to have played a role in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys. Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), who chairs a Judiciary Committee subcommittee, expressed concern Friday that Bush pardons on the final day of his tenure in the Oval Office could cut off any chance of former White House officials being forced to testify before Congress about their role in the U.S. attorneys' removal in 2006. The Department... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096813/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047115/posts Pasadena officers talked to girlfriend after shootings A woman who knew one of the burglars gunned down by Pasadena homeowner Joe Horn told police she had warned her friend that his habit of breaking into homes would cost him his life, according to recently released police records. As part of a 31-page police report, Diamond Morgan, 24, of Houston, told Pasadena police investigators that she knew Diego Ortiz was a criminal. "Morgan stated that she told Ortiz three days ago that he was going to end up dead for the things that he was doing," police detective M.E. Bruegger wrote... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047115/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:43:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043163/posts Boulder District Attorney Mary T. Lacy issues the following announcement with regard to the investigation of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. On December 25-26, 1996, JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in the home where she lived with her mother, father and brother. Despite a long and intensive investigation, the death of JonBenet remains unsolved. The murder has received unprecedented publicity and has been shrouded in controversy. That publicity has led to many theories over the years in which suspicion has focused on one family member or another. However, there has been at least one persistent stumbling block to the possibility of... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043163/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:14:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038676/posts Steven Hatfill finally has his life back. Thanks to FBI incompetence, he also has $5.8 million. ... It's worse because it is a virtual confession that the anthrax case is cold. Throughout one of the largest investigations in law-enforcement history, agents were fixated on a "lone wolf" theory that Director Robert Mueller's FBI, for all intents and purposes, now admits was wrong. Helped along by a sympathetic press corps, the obsession with a domestic perpetrator has ended up in a dead end. *** So the FBI needed to cast a wider net all along – which still remains urgent. In... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038676/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:49:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037846/posts (Washington, D.C.) – The following is a statement from Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) in reaction to today’s announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it had agreed to pay former Army biowarfare expert Dr. Steven Hatfill $5.8 million in a settlement related to the FBI’s previously naming Hatfill a “person of interest” in the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks on the United States. The attacks originated from a postal box in Holt’s central New Jersey congressional district, disrupting the lives and livelihoods of many of his constituents: “As today’s settlement announcement confirms, this case was botched from... Holt's website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037846/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:24:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037488/posts The Justice Department on Friday agreed to pay more than $5.8 million to Steven Hatfill, the former government scientist once branded by the Justice Department a person of interest in the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001. The legal settlement to Hatfill, in cash and an annual payments, signals the end of a civil lawsuit Hatfill brought against the Justice Department and FBI, accusing them of violating his privacy rights by improperly leaking sensitive information about the anthrax investigation to reporters. "I think it's a gratifying end to a very sad chapter in [Hatfill's] life and that of the FBI and... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037488/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:48:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029886/posts New York State Police officials are notifying district attorneys across the state that evidence in criminal cases may have been compromised by a forensic scientist who committed suicide last month after auditors discovered that he had not followed proper procedures in some cases, officials said Tuesday. The scientist, Garry Veeder, worked at the State Police crime lab for more than 30 years analyzing so-called trace evidence, such as fibers, physical material and impressions left at crime scenes. The agency is reviewing his work going back at least a decade and cannot yet say how many cases could have been compromised.... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029886/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:38:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024932/posts ELDORADO, TEXAS -- As officials haggled Friday over how to return more than 400 children to their parents, it was becoming increasingly clear that Texas' audacious attempt to rein in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had backfired -- and become a lesson in the difficulty of cracking down on the 10,000-member polygamist sect. .... The town also was abuzz over an anticipated mass voter registration by the FLDS. Hours after the court first ruled against the state, two members of the sect walked into the county clerk's office and requested 300 voter registration forms, a... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024932/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:45:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019850/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Karl Rove, who had been one of President George W. Bush's top aides, was subpoenaed on Thursday to testify before a congressional panel investigating the administration's firing of nine federal prosecutors. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers issued the subpoena after months of failed efforts to get Rove to voluntarily testify under oath. The Judiciary Committee, like its Senate counterpart, has been investigating for more than a year the administration's dismissal of nine of the nation's 93 U.S. attorneys in 2006. Despite White House claims to the contrary, critics charge the firings were politically motivated,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019850/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 20:03:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2019291/posts "What is the attitude of the DCFS when confronted with over 3,000 mistakes they made? Spokesman Kendall Marlowe 'acknowledged that mistakes are made, but he said the vast majority of people…were placed there properly… he declined further comment.'"The DCFS chief administrative law judge Meryl Paniak said, 'A lot of what happens at these hearings is it becomes a legal process, not… whether it happened or not, but whether enough evidence is presented.'"Not a hint of apology, not a whiff of promise to a better job. In one word, arrogant."Ned Holstein of Fathers & Families has an interesting post on a... Glenn Sacks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2019291/posts#comment Wed, 21 May 2008 19:35:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999626/posts Durham, N.C. — Attorneys for three former Duke University lacrosse players filed a motion this week asking a judge to lift a stay that keeps them from suing former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong. Nifong filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in January, listing a debt of $180.3 million and David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann – as well as three other players who filed suit – as unsecured creditors, each owed $30 million. Attorneys for Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann, however, say in the April 8 filing that bankruptcy was a tactic he used to avoid a federal civil rights... WRAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999626/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:43:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977783/posts Camp Pendleton, California – A vindicated Marine lance corporal accused of war crimes at Haditha, Iraq has been granted testimonial immunity, Defend Our Marines has learned. Former Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt will testify on behalf of two enlisted Marine infantrymen waiting general court-martial in the infamous case. It is expected by both defense teams and courtroom observers that Justin Sharratt will provide testimony beneficial to Lance Corporal Stephen Tatum and Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the two Marine enlisted men still facing trial for unlawfully killing Iraqi civilians. Tatum was Sharratt’s squad mate during two vicious combat tours in Iraq in... Defend Our Marines http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977783/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:15:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962703/posts BRUTAL, unprovoked and pointless murders have always generated public response. Revulsion at the crime draws on the well of primitive responses that include fear, anger and fascination. The person accused can expect little respite from outrage from the moment he or she is identified as a suspect. The worse the crime the less reality there is in the public mind to the legalistic concept of presumption of innocence. For most of the 20th century, newspapers understood sales could be built on extensive reporting of court cases. So most of the 20th century also saw a steady extension of the restrictions... The Scotsman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962703/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:29:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1962082/posts Roger Clemens, future Hall of Famer, welcome to family court. No, Roger isn't getting divorced--in fact, former teammate Jose Canseco wrote that Clemens was very devoted and faithful to his wife Debbie during his baseball career. What I mean is this--Clemens has been accused in the Mitchell Report of using steroids. Clemens hotly denies this but throws up his hands in exasperation, repeatedly asking, "How do you prove a negative?" Well, how do you? This is exactly the position that so many fathers are in when faced with false accusations of domestic violence or child sexual abuse in family court.... GlennSacks.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1962082/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:45:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961539/posts DURHAM -- Former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong is off the hook for the time being from any civil lawsuits. The judge overseeing the Duke Lacrosse lawsuit filed by three exonerated players has put their suit on hold. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961539/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:46:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954746/posts Former District Attorney Mike Nifong filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday as city leaders, police and other officials began answering one of the federal civil-rights lawsuits triggered by the Duke lacrosse case. Meanwhile, the first replies from defendants in the Evans/Finnerty/Seligmann lawsuit came Tuesday from Nifong's former investigator, Linwood Wilson, and DNA Securities Inc., the Burlington lab that tested samples gathered from the players and stripper who falsely accused them. Late Tuesday, dismissal motions were also filed on behalf of City Manager Patrick Baker, former Police Chief Steve Chalmers, Deputy Police Chief Ron Hodge, Maj. Beverly Council, Maj. Lee Russ, Capt.... Durham Herald-Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954746/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:06:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948211/posts After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder. Instead, two enlisted Marines and two Marine officers will face trial in coming months for the killings and for failing to investigate them. The most serious charges have been leveled against Marine Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, who is scheduled to be arraigned on charges of voluntary manslaughter in California next week, the last step before the case officially moves to trial. Initially called a massacre... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948211/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:46:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947531/posts WASHINGTON - Former Sen. Conrad Burns is no longer part of a federal investigation of jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Burns, R-Mont., narrowly lost re-election to a fourth term in 2006 after Democrats made his relationship with Abramoff a central issue. Abramoff is the key figure in a corruption investigation that has led to convictions of a former congressman, legislative aides, lobbyists and officials in the Bush administration. Burns said in a statement that he "never doubted that the baseless and politically motivated charges leveled against me would be found to be without merit." "My family... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947531/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2008 04:58:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942885/posts WINDER, GA - A Winder soldier accused of killing a detainee in Iraq will face third-degree murder charges, despite a military investigator's recommendation that those charges be dropped. The Army might be using Spc. Christopher Shore, 25, of Winder and other soldiers as scapegoats to satisfy world opinion about the U.S. presence in Iraq, Sen. John Douglas, R-Social Circle, said. "I am concerned because there is a number of these high profile cases coming out of Iraq and it appears there is a good degree of trying to sacrifice some of our guys in order to satisfy world opinion," Douglas... Thw Gwinnett Daily Post (Surburban Atlanta) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942885/posts#comment Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939617/posts Candidates lining up to replace longtime Travis County district attorney. Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who has led that office since 1977, told his staff today that he will not seek re-election. He was expected to issue a statement later. Earle, 65, will serve the one year remaining on his term, but his retirement will end an era. "Is the district attorney's job an elective office?" Ken Oden, a former county attorney, once quipped about his friend's long tenure. Earle, a Democrat, might not be done with politics. By retiring, he would be available for a gubernatorial bid in... Austin American Spokesman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939617/posts#comment Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:12:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937966/posts Barry Bonds is being shafted by the legal system. His case is, sadly, part of a pattern of judicial abuse, the stretching of the law like rubber to allow prosecutors to go after unpopular figures in business, politics and, now, sports. The indictment recently returned against him could have been rendered years ago. Why now? Because this season Bonds, an ill-tempered, arrogant, disliked athlete, broke the record for lifetime home runs. Had he not set a new record or had he been a friendly figure beloved by the fans, prosecutors would never have touched him... Forbes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937966/posts#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:21:48 GMT