Senators of both political parties said Wednesday they support extending FBI Director Robert Mueller's term for two more years but are worried about a legal constitutional challenge.
The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on whether to extend FBI Director Robert Mueller's term two more years.
It will take an act of Congress to keep Robert Mueller at the helm of the FBI, and all signs indicate that's precisely what lawmakers will do.
The White House is quietly expanding its list of Hispanic candidates for the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy, sources close to the selection process tell CNN.
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives put off a scheduled vote to overhaul federal eavesdropping law after Republicans pushed back against its limits on warrantless surveillance.
President Bush on Friday defended his administration's methods of interrogating terrorism suspects, insisting, "This government does not torture people."
The White House and Justice Department on Thursday strongly denied a published report that a secret Justice Department opinion in 2005 allowed the torture of terror detainees, months after the government publicly renounced it.
J. Scott Jennings became the latest sacrificial lamb the White House has sent up to answer questions about the U.S. Attorneys firings
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress Thursday that the confrontation between then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in Ashcroft's hospital room in 2004 concerned a controversial surveillance program -- an apparent contradiction of Senate testimony given Tuesday by Gonzales.
FBI chief's wiretap concerns
The White House and Justice Department say what looks like a contradiction between testimony of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller is nothing more than a confusion of terms.
White House: Dems don't want truth
The Attorney General introduces new questions, and shows shrinking powers of recall, in discussing his visit to Ashcroft
'I want to fix the problem'
Vice President Dick Cheney opposed a promotion for a deputy involved in a heated dispute with the White House over the legality of a controversial domestic surveillance program, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told senators.
When the former White House counsel visited Ashcroft in his hospital bed, he may have been guilty of misconduct
A leading Republican senator predicted Sunday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would quit before facing a "substantial" no-confidence vote, but the White House said such a vote would have no effect on the Justice Department chief.
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that he expects the investigation into the firings of federal prosecutors will lead to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation.
Lockheed Martin wasn't my favorite defense stock the last time I wrote about the sector back in January. But based on the recent news reports out of Washington, I've got a sudden soft spot for the company - one unrelated to Lockheed's business or its earnings prospects.
Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska joined calls for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign Wednesday, while Democrats questioned whether Gonzales had misled a Senate committee about the administration's no-warrant eavesdropping.
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey disclosed new information Tuesday concerning attempts by the White House to get Justice Department approval for the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program.
Federal authorities unsealed an indictment Tuesday against three men in British custody in connection with scouting financial targets in the United States as preparation for a possible terrorist attack.
Time Warner said Wednesday it reached a $210 million settlement of accounting fraud charges brought by the Justice Department and had proposed a related $300 million settlement with securities regulators.
Amid increasing concerns about possible terrorist attacks leading up to the presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin Monday to the 50 states and the District of Columbia, providing guidelines for establishing security through Election Day, government officials told CNN.
The former chief executive officer of Computer Associates was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York Wednesday for allegedly participating in a massive fraud conspiracy and an elaborate cover up of a scheme that cost investors hundreds of millions of dollars.
A Muslim cleric and a founder of his mosque pleaded not guilty at a detention hearing Tuesday to charges of conspiring to launder money and promote terrorism.
An FBI sting operation composed of bogus plans to launder money and attack a Pakistani official led to the arrests Thursday of two leaders in a New York mosque, federal law enforcement officials said.
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Ex-Enron Chairman Ken Lay surrendered to authorities Thursday and pleaded innocent to charges that he lied to investors and the public about Enron's financial condition in late 2001.
The Justice Department alleged Tuesday that Jose Padilla, an American citizen held without charges in a military jail for the past two years, not only plotted to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" inside the United States, but he also conspired to blow up as many as 20 high-rise apartment buildings in a separate attack.
On Tuesday the Justice Department detailed its allegations against accused "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who for the past two years has been held without charges as an enemy combatant. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer spoke with Padilla's attorney, Donna Newman, following the Justice Department news conference.
President Bush urged Congress on Monday to renew the anti-terrorist USA Patriot Act and strengthen it before the law expires next year, saying it gives investigators the tools to stop "terrorist monsters."
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft returned to work Wednesday for the first time since undergoing gallbladder surgery, Justice Department aides said.
At the moment attorneys for former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling in Houston were blasting federal prosecutors for indicting Skilling on conspiracy and fraud charges, top federal law enforcement officials in Washington issued a joint written statement lauding their actions.
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