Jerry Seper

Lawyers tied to liberals rejected in hiring

Top Justice Department officials looking to hire a generation of conservative entry-level lawyers rejected candidates who appeared to have liberal leanings, a report said Tuesday.

June 25, 2008

FBI security checks called deficient

Security procedures used by the FBI to check immigration and naturalization applicants have "serious deficiencies" that have resulted in large backlogs and raised questions about the reliability of the information, a Justice Department report said Monday.

June 10, 2008

Violent, property crime down nationwide

Violent and property crime declined nationwide last year, including significant decreases in every violent crime category - murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault - in cities with a million or more residents, according to a preliminary FBI report Monday.

June 10, 2008

Hill tells FBI to explain staff gap

Lawmakers are demanding that the FBI explain "unacceptable vacancy rates" in the bureau's counterterrorism division and have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate the impact of current FBI staff shortages.

May 29, 2008

Clinton’s records vanished after warning of ‘very serious’ problems

Hillary Rodham Clinton's Rose Law Firm billing records, found in the White House residence in January 1996 two years after they had been subpoenaed by government regulators, disappeared shortly after the first lady was warned that the firm's billing problems were "very serious" and the then-ongoing Whitewater investigation could result in criminal charges, newly obtained records show.

May 12, 2008

Once-secret memos question Clinton’s honesty

A decade before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton admitted fudging the truth during the presidential campaign, federal prosecutors quietly assembled hundreds of pages of evidence suggesting she concealed information and misled a federal grand jury about her work for a failing Arkansas savings and loan at the heart of the Whitewater probe, according to once-secret documents that detail the internal debates over whether she should have faced criminal charges.

May 8, 2008