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The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission, and USDA should be directed to ensure that agriculture has a multitude of competitive markets. I concur with those who argue that rather than promoting a global supermarket run by multinational cor-... 

Another author, Mark Riebling, dabbles momentarily in the Finders pool of strangeness in his 1994 book, Wedge The Secret War Between the FBI and the CIA. Riebling states in his book, "just before Christmas 1993, both agencies were embarrassed by a Justice Department investigation into whether the CIA had improperly used the FBI to cover up its connections to a computer training cult called Finders, which had been accused but acquitted of child abuse."... 

Officially, the Justice Department admits that the Finders case is still "an open investigation." The CIA sings a different but expected tune. Spokesman Mark Mansfield said "allegations of my agency s involvement with the group were an absurdity that popped up every couple of years." (13)... 

And then there were the many investigators who entered Germany in 1945 to represent the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, the OSS, the War Department, and other agencies of their government, and contributed to the task of bringing the Devil s Chemists to trial. The names of all these people would number well into the hundreds. 

On Monday, March 11, 2002 — six months to the day of the September 11 terrorist attack on America — the Huffman Aviation flight school (Venice, Florida) received student visa approval forms for Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, a part of the United States Justice Department, permitting the pair to live and study at a flight school six months after they had flown two separate commercial airliners into the World Trade Center killing upwards of 3,000 people. Is that horrific mistake justice, or incompetence for the more than 3,000 America citizens who died in this single attack or incompetence ... 

Such views took firmer hold as the Cold War progressed. Even an amicus brief filed by the U.S. Justice Department in Brown v. Board of Education argued that desegregation was in the national interest because the United States is trying to prove to the people of the world, of every nationality, race and color, that a free democracy is the most civilized and most secure form of government yet devised by man. 54... 

Chapter 31 was opposed by the Justice Department and some legislators. Observers believe that there are two major reasons. One reason is apparently that it does not allow as far-reaching an attack on a patent... 

The Justice Department, which is largely responsible for the implementation of the Patriot Act, has provided only limited information to the public regarding how and when the new provisions have been used. The Department is not required to produce this information due to national security interests. In a private group s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, directed to the Department ofjustice, seeking disclosure of statistics regarding use of new information and authority for it conferred by the Patriot Act. The Court held the statistical information sought could be withheld on national security grounds [176]. 

In practice, the Patriot Act and its successors, has circumvented the check and balance system. The Executive Branch has, for example, lowered the threshold of probable cause to the level of suspicion it has equated criminal activity with terrorist activity it has removed or delayed notice requirements for warrants it has required mandatory compliance on third parties for the production of information gathered secredy it has imposed a gag order upon notice and production of information it permits sharing of confidential personal information between investigative units and minimized the role of the judiciary. The overall effect is the Executive Branch and Justice Department are assuming power to define application of the Fourth Amendment. An additional result is the collection of a wide variety of highly personal and sensitive information on law-abiding individuals. 

To add to the legal turmoil, in May 2001 U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft announced that the Justice Department would essentially adopt the individual rights approach to the Second Amendment, while at the same time saying that it would not challenge any existing federal gun laws. 

May 17 In a letter to NRA chief lobbyist James Jay Baker, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announces a radical shift in Justice Department policy in which it will accept the individual rights theory of the Second Amendment. However, subsequent statements imply that the Justice Department will not seek to overturn any existing federal firearms laws on Second Amendment grounds. 

Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney reported that he found no criminal intent in the employees actions, and the Justice Department declined to prosecute them. However, he said the USFWS failure to administer meaningful punishment showed the service s bias against holding] employees accountable for their behavior. 9... 

The date-shift code is not a method of tagging in the truest sense. However, since it is required by law in the USA it will be described briefly. Incidentally, from now on, we shall make frequent reference to the following Federal agencies BATF, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Treasury Department FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Justice Department and OTA, Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress... 

U.S. federal district court judge rejects a U.S. Justice Department attempt to overturn Oregon s physician-assisted suicide law. The Justice Department claimed that the state law violated the federal Controlled Substances Act. 

Federal Judge Robert E. Jones in April of 2002 upheld Oregon s law and criticized the attorney general for attempting to stifle debate on the issue. Justice Department representatives said were considering an appeal. No appeal had been filed as of late April 2002. 

The Justice Department has an urgent need to detect fraud in many organized crime cases because it is often very difficult to associate a suspect with the particular offense except by the... 

Prior to the appeal of the Colasurdo decision, ink testimony was offered in the U.S. v. Bruno (10), tried in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The request for laboratory assistance was initiated by the Criminal Tax Division of the Justice Department. 

The election of Jimmy Carter as President in 1976 ensured a continuation of tolerance to drug use, particularly marijuana. In March 1977, the Special Assistant for Health Issues to the President, and high officials from the DEA, the State Department, the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIMH, the Customs Service, and the Justice Department appeared before the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control to argue for the decriminalization of marijuana. The President himself repeated a similar theme before Congress later that year. 

Unlike every other unit of the Justice Department, which is... 

William O. Bittman, prosecutor for the Justice Department against Hoffa, joined the board of Sportsystems. 

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