Department Justice Quote by Andrew McCarthy

“In addition, he and his subordinates have repeatedly, systematically and willfully provided Congress and the American people with false information about matters of grave…

— Andrew McCarthy

Unfortunately, once a person who is willing to act against the interests of the United States assumes the awesome powers of the presidency, the…

— Asha Rangappa

“The Snowden revelations have also exposed the fact that senior officials, particularly America's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, have not been fully frank…

— Edward Lucas

The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it…

— Benjamin Wittes

The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence…

— Jamie Gorelick

“Furthermore, after the Justice Department targeted a Fox News reporter for a criminal investigation under the Espionage Act, in a matter involving unauthorized disclosure…

— Andrew McCarthy

In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. The administration's war on leaks and other efforts to…

— Leonard Downie, Jr

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion…

— Sharyl Attkisson

“knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Certain documents, such as the FISA court order allowing collection of telephone records and Obama’s presidential directive to prepare offensive cyber-operations, were among the…

— Glenn Greenwald

Presidents have, of course, acted inappropriately in the past, and our constitutional system has a framework in place for addressing misconduct by the chief…

— Asha Rangappa

It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of…

— Glenn Greenwald