Obama's Enforcer (27 page)

  
9
.  Meyer and Hamburger, “Eric Holder Pushed for Controversial Clemency.”

10
.  “Senate Condemns Clinton for FALN Clemency,” CNN, Sept. 14, 1999.

11
.  Connor, “Terrorists Killed My Dad.”

12
.  Kolb, “Hillary, Terrorism and the FALN.”

13
.  Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Ruler of Law,”
New Criterion
, Sept. 2011.

14
.  Raffaela Wakeman, “September 2013 Guantanamo Recidivism Report from DNI,” Lawfareblog.com, Sept 6, 2013.

15
.  Meghan Clyne, “A Bleeding Heart to ‘Fight' Terror,”
New York Post
, July 17, 2009.

16
.  Andrew C. McCarthy, “ ‘Representing' al-Qaeda,”
National Review Online
, March 29, 2010.

17
.  Clyne, “A Bleeding Heart to ‘Fight' Terror.”

18
.  Andy McCarthy, “Who Are the Gitmo 9?,”
National Review Online
, Feb. 24, 2010.

19
.  Mike Levine, “Exclusive: Unknown DOJ Lawyers Identified,” Fox News, March 3, 2010.

20
.  Jennifer Rubin, “Gen. ‘Stonewall' Holder,”
Weekly Standard
, May 10, 2010.

21
.  Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Gitmo Volunteers,”
National Review Online
, March 5, 2010.

22
.  Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn, “Gitmo's Indefensible Lawyers,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 15, 2010.

23
.  McCarthy, “The Gitmo Volunteers.”

24
.  These memoranda were principally written by John Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Jay S. Bybee, a federal appeals court judge who headed the Office of Legal Counsel. These memoranda were released by Eric Holder and the Obama administration despite CIA Director Leon Panetta's argument that “full disclosure would damage the government's ability to recruit spies and harm national security.” Daniel Klaidman, “Independent's Day,”
Newsweek
, July 11, 2009.

25
.  The CIA contractor, David A. Passaro, was convicted of assault for hitting an Afghan captive with a flashlight. Carrie Johnson, Jerry Markon, and Julie Tate, “Inquiry Into CIA Practices Narrows,”
Washington Post
, Sept. 19, 2009.

26
.  Siobhan Gorman, “Seven CIA Directors Ask Obama to Stop Criminal Probe,”
Wall Street Journal
, Sept. 18, 2009.

27
.  “Obama White House v. CIA; Panetta Threatened to Quit,” The Blotter, ABC News, Aug. 24, 2009.

28
.  Johnson, Markon, and Tate, “Inquiry Into CIA Practices Narrows.”

29
.  
United States v. Richardson
, 418 U.S. 166 (1974).

30
.  “Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on Closure of Investigation into the Interrogation of Certain Detainees,” U.S. Department of Justice, Aug. 30, 2012.

31
.  Marc A. Thiessen, “The CIA's Exoneration and Holder's Reckoning,”
Washington Post
, July 4, 2011.

32
.  “Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on Closure of Investigation into the Interrogation of Certain Detainees,” U.S. Department of Justice, Aug. 30, 2012.

33
.  Thiessen, “The CIA's Exoneration and Holder's Reckoning.”

34
.  
U.S. v. Slough
, Criminal Action No. 08-0360 (D. D.C. Dec. 31, 2009).

35
.  
U.S. v. Slough
, Criminal Action No. 08-0360 (D. D.C. Dec. 31, 2009), Slip Op. at 22.

36
.  385 U.S. 493 (1967).

37
.  
U.S. v. Slough
, Criminal Action No. 08-0360 (D. D.C. Dec. 31, 2009), Slip Op. at 3.

38
.  “The Real Blackwater Scandal,”
Wall Street Journal
, Jan. 3, 2010.

39
.  James Risen, “Ex-Blackwater Guards Face Renewed Charges,”
New York Times
, April 22, 2011.

40
.  “New Charges in Blackwater Shootings,” Associated Press, Oct. 17, 2013.

41
.  Glenn Greenwald, “The Bin Laden Raid Exposes the Obama Administration's Selective Secrecy,”
Guardian
, Aug. 23, 2012.

42
.  Ann E. Marimow, “A Rare Peek Into a Justice Department Leak Probe,”
Washington Post
, May 19, 2013.

43
.  “Journalists or Criminals? Attorney General Eric Holder's Testimony before the Committee and the Justice Department's National Security Leak Investigative Techniques,” House Committee on the Judiciary, Majority Staff Report to Chairman Bob Goodlatte, July 31, 2013, Executive Summary.

44
.  Leonard Downie, “The Obama Administration and the Press—Leak Investigations and Surveillance in Post–9/11 America,” Committee to Protect Journalists, Oct. 10, 2013.

45
.  Ibid.

46
.  Patrick Howley, “Emails: White House, State Department Coordinated with Journalist on National Security Leaks,”
Daily Caller
, Oct. 23, 2013.

47
.  “Journalists or Criminals? Attorney General Eric Holder's Testimony before the Committee and the Justice Department's National Security Leak Investigative Techniques,” House Committee on the Judiciary, Majority Staff Report to Chairman Bob Goodlatte, July 31, 2013, p. 3.

48
.  David E. Sanger, “Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran,”
New York Times
, June 1, 2012.

49
.  Howley, “Emails: White House, State Department Coordinated With Journalist on National Security Leaks.”

50
.  Ibid.

51
.  “Journalists or Criminals? Attorney General Eric Holder's Testimony before the Committee and the Justice Department's National Security Leak Investigative Techniques,” House Committee on the Judiciary, Majority Staff Report to Chairman Bob Goodlatte, July 31, 2013, p. 4.

52
.  Howley, “Emails: White House, State Department Coordinated With Journalist on National Security Leaks.”

53
.  “CIA Foiled al-Qaeda Bomb Plot Around Anniversary of Bin Laden Death,”
Guardian
, May 7, 2012.

54
.  “Journalists or Criminals? Attorney General Eric Holder's Testimony before the Committee and the Justice Department's National Security Leak Investigative Techniques,” House Committee on the Judiciary, Majority Staff Report to Chairman Bob Goodlatte, July 31, 2013, p. 1.

55
.  Mark Sherman, “Government Obtains Wide AP Phone Records in Probe,” Associated Press, May 13, 2013.

56
.  Letter from Gary Pruitt to Eric Holder, May 13, 2013.

57
.  Mark Hosenball and Tabassum Zakaria, “AP Records Seizure Just Latest Step in Sweeping U.S. Leak Probe,” Reuters, May 15, 2013.

58
.  Presidential Statement on Signing the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, Oct. 14, 1980.

59
.  Jennifer Rubin, “Five Questions About the AP Surveillance,”
Washington Post
, May 17, 2013.

60
.  Steven Nelson, “AP Leak Investigation Isn't Quite Over, Despite Charges,”
U.S. News & World Report
, Sept. 24, 2013.

61
.  Ibid.

62
.  Mark Hosenball, “Exclusive: Did White House ‘Spin' Tip a Covert Op?,” Reuters, May 18, 2012.

63
.  Ibid.

64
.  Ibid.

65
.  Nelson, “AP Leak Investigation Isn't Quite Over, Despite Charges.”

66
.  James Rosen, “NK's Post UN Sanctions Plans, Revealed,” Fox News, June 11, 2009.

67
.  “Journalists or Criminals? Attorney General Eric Holder's Testimony before the Committee and the Justice Department's National Security Leak Investigative Techniques,” House Committee on the Judiciary, Majority Staff Report to Chairman Bob Goodlatte, July 31, 2013, p. 6,

68
.  Affidavit of Reginald B. Reyes, In the Matter of Search of E-Mail Account of James Rosen, Case No. 10-291-M-01 (D. D.C. May 28, 2010).

69
.  “Journalists or Criminals? Attorney General Eric Holder's Testimony before the Committee and the Justice Department's National Security Leak Investigative Techniques,” House Committee on the Judiciary, Majority Staff Report to Chairman Bob Goodlatte, July 31, 2013, p. 17.

70
.  Ibid., p. 16.

71
.  Ibid., pp. 15–16.

72
.  Michael Issikoff, “DOJ Confirms Holder OK'd Search Warrant for Fox News Reporter's Emails,” NBC News, May 27, 2013.

73
.  “Journalists or Criminals? Attorney General Eric Holder's Testimony before the Committee and the Justice Department's National Security Leak Investigative Techniques,” House Committee on the Judiciary, Majority Staff Report to Chairman Bob Goodlatte, July 31, 2013, p. 19.

74
.  Ibid., p. 30.

75
.  Brian Stelter and Michael D. Shear, “Justice Dept. Investigated Fox Reporter Over Leak,” Fox News, May 20, 2013.

76
.  Marimow, “A Rare Peek Into a Justice Department Leak Probe.”

77
.  Sari Horwitz, “Justice Dept. Tightens Rules on Subpoenaing Records of Journalists,”
Washington Post
, July 12, 2013.

78
.  The prior guidelines were found at 28 C.F.R. § 50.10 and were incorporated into the Justice Department's U.S. Attorney's Manual at § 9-13.400.

79
.  Matt Vasilogambros, “Feinstein: White House Behind National Security Leaks,”
National Journal
, July 24, 2012.

80
.  Toby Harnden, “Joe Biden Opens His Mouth About US Navy Seals,”
Telegraph
, May 4, 2011.

81
.  Jeffrey T. Kuhner, “The Betrayal of the Navy's SEAL Team 6,”
Washington Times
, June 7, 2013.

82
.  Ibid.

83
.  “Scooter Obama Outs Navy SEAL Team 6 Leader for Movie,”
Investor's Business Daily
, May 24, 2012.

84
.  Rowan Scarborough, “Navy SEALS Cite Shabby Treatment as Team Obama Helps Hollywood Instead,”
Washington Times
, Nov. 17, 2013.

85
.  Maureen Dowd, “Downgrade Blues,”
New York Times
, Aug. 6, 2011.

86
.  Glenn Greenwald, “The bin Laden Raid Exposes the Obama Administration's Selective Secrecy,”
Guardian
, Aug. 23, 2012.

87
.  Rowan Scarborough, “Details of bin Laden Raid Leaked First by Obama Aides,”
Washington Times
, Sept. 16, 2012, “Judicial Watch . . . obtained via the Freedom of Information Act a series of internal emails that show close cooperation between the movie's director and screenwriter and Obama political appointees at the CIA, Pentagon and White House.”

88
.  Daniel Halper, “Gates to National Security Team on Osama Raid: ‘Shut the F– Up,' ”
Weekly Standard
, June 6, 2012.

89
.  Jo Becker and Scott Shane, “Secret ‘Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will,”
New York Times
, May 20, 2012.

90
.  Greenwald, “The bin Laden Raid Exposes the Obama Administration's Selective Secrecy.”

91
.  Interview with Joe Connor, Dec. 3, 2013.

Chapter 9: Corruption Abroad

  
1
.  15 U.S.C. § 77dd-1.

  
2
.  Ammon Simon, “Wal-Mart and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,”
National Review Online
, Dec. 21, 2012.

  
3
.  Mike Koehler, “Lanny Breuer and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement,” White Collar Crime Report, Bloomberg BNA, March 22, 2013.

  
4
.  http://www.justice.gov/criminal/pr/speeches/2012/crmspeech-1211161.html, Nov. 12, 2012.

  
5
.  Matthew Rosenberg, “With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan,”
New York Times
, April 28, 2013.

  
6
.  Koehler, “Lanny Breuer and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement.”

  
7
.  Ibid.

  
8
.  Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer Speaks at the New York City Bar Association, Sept. 13, 2012; http://www.justice.gov/criminal/pr/speeches/2012/crm-speech-1209131.html.

  
9
.  Koehler, “Lanny Breuer and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement.”

10
.  Mike Koehler, “An Examination of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Issues,” 12
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
317,332 (2013).

11
.  See Prepared Remarks by Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, May 2012, http://www.wallerlaw.com/portalresource/lookup/wosid/cp-base-4-13102/media.name-/TAP%20-%20Speech%20to%20LCJ%20by%20Judge%20Gonzales%202012%2005.pdf.

12
.  John L. Smith, “FBI Stung After Sting Involving Corrupt Foreign Practices,”
Las Vegas Review-Journal
, Feb. 29, 2012.

13
.  Ibid.

14
.  Del Quentin Wilber, “Racy, Vulgar Texts Hurt Justice Department's Largest Sting Operation Targeting Foreign Bribery,”
Washington Post
, Feb. 13, 2012.

15
.  Ibid.

16
.  Ibid.

17
.  Smith, “FBI Stung After Sting Involving Corrupt Foreign Practices.”

18
.  Wilber, “Racy, Vulgar Texts Hurt Justice Department's Largest Sting Operation Targeting Foreign Bribery.”

19
.  “A Guest Post from the Africa Sting Jury Foreman,” FCPA Professor, Feb. 6, 2012, http://www.fcpaprofessor.com/a-guest-post-from-the-africa-sting-jury-foreman.