The Washington Post's James V. Grimaldi was part of a coterie of reporters who broke story after story after story on super-duper-mega-uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's vast web of influence peddling. Now Grimaldi's writing a relatively more favorable Abramoff story-- the Justice Dept. is seeking to reduce his prison sentence from ...

Federal court judge Patrick Bates yesterday denied the White House's request to hold his ruling that compels Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, to testify to Congress. Bates ruled in July that Miers could not use a Presidential assertion of executive privilege to ...

It may sound like a cringe-inducing situation comedy. But it's actually just the Bush administration Justice Dept. in its twilight. Hans Von Spakovsky, who as a Justice Dept. official pushed like his very livelihood depended on it for a Georgia voter ID law expected to disenfranchise the elderly, poor and ...

The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau reports that the President is entrusting the FBI to open a criminal investigation against somebody "without any clear basis for suspicion." Attorney General Michael Mukasey promises, however, that the FBI would still need a "valid purpose" ...

The New York Times Eric Lichtblau and Nicholas Wade look at the continued skepticism by forensic scientists about the FBI's assertion that Bruce Ivins acted alone in delivering deadly anthrax. The FBI held a press conference yesterday where bureau scientists made the unusual move of laying out exactly how ...

The FBI seems to have put together a preponderance of evidence linking Bruce Ivins to the anthrax mail attacks that killed five in September 2001. But Congress wants to know the process of the FBI's  seven-year investigation and why the Bureau is so sure Ivins acted alone. Both the House ...

That's the logic used by the Attorney General, the top legal official in the land, for why former Justice Dept. officials won't be investigated for illegally considering political affiliation in hiring career civil servants. Michael Mukasey also said yesterday that he won't fire civil service employees who were illegally hired ...

The New York Times' Adam Nossiter reports that FBI and Housing and Urban Development agents raided a New Orlean nonprofit housing agency intended to help Hurricane Katrina victims. The Affordable House Ownership Program was supposed help elderly and poor residents displaced by the ...

So says Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Ia.) about the FBI's seven-year investigation of who killed five people and threatened many others by sending anthrax through the mail. The Wall Street Journal's Gary Fields and Evan Perez report that Grassley is calling for Judiciary Committee ...

The Washington Post's Carrie Johnson, Del Quentin Wilber, and Dan Eggen report on the big beltway news in an otherwise quiet Washington: the FBI has determined that Bruce Ivins, a former Army bioweapons scientist, acted alone in 2001 when he sent anthrax ...