accountability for those who were onboard and it took tremendous public pressure to get the american justice department to take any action in that case but it could be argued also as horrific as those instances were there are a few bad apples and an ally of the fact that you know we have works like yours countless cases you've written about this issue a lot of sort of i want to make this a left or right issue but the mercenary problem has been really discussed a lot of both in print and in t.v. media we had there the blackwater but by jeremy scahill don't you think that maybe the increase in public attention to this has somewhat eliminated the frequency of the horrific murders and forces that's a sort of get their act together in short no you know we have a promise of iraq obama when he was running for president made this one of his issues it is principle opponent in a democratic primary so worry clinton may articulate almost exactly the same criticisms and now we see there in office hillary clinton running the state department and the state department is proposing to field a private are. any private m

one session and the most speculative, i think, what kirsten was saying, most american audience, can the obama justice departmentr somebody else find some way into damaging or subpoenaing the american part of this operation, which has no linkage i know of to anything happening in britain. >> that's pretty farfetched, number four. i can tell you i was impressed. the guardian actually did a story how it was, i won't say the word on tv, but cluster-- and interesting, also, talked about the fact that bbc and cnn were trying to make as much hay as they can, because they're afraid of the competition and they really wanted to slam down the competition. i thought that was very interesting. the new york times came up with something interesting, this is the best kind of story we don't know how it's going to end. that gets to the personal issue, this wouldn't be such a big story if it wasn't so much for a lot of the-- its larger than life characters. and whether it's a pie thrower or rupert murdoch's wife wendy, or rupert murdoch, these are larger than life characters and that really made the story. >> and piers morgan now

that the accreditation part of the american bar association is under a completely separate organization as a result of an agreement we have with the department of justice and department of education, so that we don't have any antitrust issues. that is an independent group. we at the american bar association are asking law schools to prepare for -- prepare 10 simple questions about what it costs to go to law school, how many of their students are employed upon graduation in real jobs, not artificial jobs, and we think it is going to be helpful. we also have a website that has a lot of information for anyone considering to go to law school, but probably the most important statistic that these potential students don't know is that the median income of lawyers in the united states is $62,000. they need to understand that before they incur $100,000 in debt. is there always room for another good lawyer? we need good lawyers. there always is. you have to ask yourself how much that you can afford -- how much debt you can afford. they have been watching too much "boston legal." you see $100,000 starting salaries. that may be for the top 10 students at the top 1

the justice department has indicted americans with the viewpoints.itimate concern because that is what we hear from peter king? >> we should fight without the religious religious affiliation of the actors. if you want to attack people on misguided idea of islam, it doesn't matter of those who get threatened and intimidateintimi. our benchmarks should not be religion. we should target people based on their behavior and action, not based on their religious affiliation. this is the bedrock of my point all along. i think it is the point of the homeland security committee to protect the homeland. that means going after people who are terrorists. not going after them because of race or religion. >> congress member keith ellison, thank you. >>> remember the lockerbie bomber who claimed to have three months to live because of cancer? that was two years ago. today, rather, tuesday, abdel al-megrahi was appearing before a moammar gadhafi rally. the bomber is still alive and kicking. jeff, lunch! uh-huh. jeff! honey, i can't walk any faster. [ female announcer

department, he said. to make arguments on behalf of americans who are detained abroad. the white house, the justice department, the state department, all weighed in and asked the supreme court to intervene, to delay the execution in texas for a few months until congress could have the chance to act on legislation pending that would make texas follow the law here. but one hour before the prisoner in texas was scheduled to be killed, the conservative majority of the supreme court declined to postpone the execution. it was a 5-4 decision. governor rick perry also could have granted a stay here. a 30-day stay. as of this morning, he said he was undecided on the matter. in the end, he too declined to step in. texas killed humberto leal, the man in question in this case, at 7:00 p.m. eastern time tonight. the politics of killing prisoners in america have played a role in presidential politics in the past. during then-governor george w. bush's campaign in 2000 and in bill clinton's campaign before that too. >> one of the issues that has dogged governor bush throughout the campaign is the number of executi

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central body of peace agreement which will consist of american specialists and russian specialists minister for education and from department of justice of the net is this if america is planning to to sign similar similar agreements with countries in europe yes of course unfortunately during the last eight years eighteen years which we. have had this process of international adoptions we don't have enough enough agreements and we have only one agreement was italian republic unfortunately and our goal is to establish or underside all these contracts agreement to treaties with all countries from where adoptive parents come to russia to pick up due to. taken to adopt our russian children across the border adoptions gone wrong have shown the failure of international law to look after children rights spotlight's yelena did me there were reports. a russian boy flown back to moscow but he's a doctor defender lean america the story made headlines a year ago big stir public indignation and made lawmakers of the two countries work on the solution seven year old or term so they leave the way no alone with a note from these adoptive mother she cl

wrote to the securities and exchange commission and to the department of justice asking them to look specifically into the possibility that two american laws were broken. one, the foreign practices correction act and secondly, the so-called wiretap act. any american corp. has to comply with these laws. rupert murdoch decided he wanted to become an american citizen. i do not blame him. america is the greatest place in the world, i say to you. the fact of the world is, he became an american citizen. his corporation is american. he needs to obey american law. the stories coming out of europe about bribing police officials, on its face, that is not allowed under the foreign corrupt practices act. the allegations that he may have packed into families of the victims of 9/11, -- hacked into families of the victims of 911, that is not 11th pick -- that is not allowed. >> at this point, those are just allegations, correct? >> absolutely. >> the hacking of funds here and the bribing of officers -- phones here and the bribing of officers here, were he to be found at fault, would that mean that his newspapers could be prosecuted in america? >> he

three democratic senators today are urging the justice department to investigate one of murdoch's american-based companies. and they're raising deep concerns about the possible violation of anti-bribery laws among other things. as the allegations of phone hacking play out in britain, the senate commerce committee chairman jay rockefeller says he may launch his own investigation. he suggested it's likely he would find some kind of criminal activity. >> it's really repugnant, you know, that one man can control so many. i watch the parliamentary debate on television. they were talking about, you know, how they control the labor party, but then when they go out, they control the conservative party. it's all about that. and that's bad for the world. it's certainly bad for america, and we have enough problems getting objective media. >> more of the report including the interview with jay rockefeller coming up later here in "the situation room." i'll also speak live shortly with the senate democrat robert mendez of new jersey about his concerns that journalists working for rupert murdoch may have tappe

justice department will investigate news corporation to see if american employees engaged in a conspiracyritish police. >> the san francisco chronicle executive vice president and editor at large phil bronstein gave his take today, spoke on "7 live" about responsible of an editor. >> we keep eye on issues of sourcing. interesting information comes to our attention, we want to know from my reporter where did you get that information? >> bronstein think there's is a different culture at work in london and because of previous scandals here in the u.s. most private eyes refuse to engage in phone hacking here. >> san francisco supervisors take a look taking a vote that will determine when or if at and t could offer u-verse cable in the city, would have to install hundreds of these boxes to support the service. opponents say they're not only eye sore buzz they're magnets for excuse me, for graffiti. abc 7 carolyn tyler joins us live with the story. >> they just started talking about it. at and t says it will be most significant improvement to its operations and its 100 year history here in san

disproportionate representation of african- americans and latinos in the justice system has resulted in discrimination of communities of color. according to the department of justice, one-third of felony arrests leads to a conviction. the human rights commission has a concern boat. it is despite whether the crime is a violent are non-violent, a misdemeanor or not, that they are not fit to join the work force. this is contrary to those who have served their time and paid their debt to society. background checks. often people do not know that they have incorrect information on their background reports, and it may take significant time to correct them. in adopting this type of nondiscrimination ordinance. i will talk about this in more detail in a minute, and now i want to highlight that it is already prohibited to discriminate against people with conviction records under title 7 of the discrimination act. it already requires, federal legislation, it already requires an individual assessment. employers will be complying with the san francisco ordinance because it requires an assessment, much like title 7, and performing the background check after the indiv

never gotten an explanation from congress or from the justice department about what the law authorizes in terms of massive surveillance of americans communications but what circumstantial evidence has come out that's been the most compelling that has worried civil liberties groups the most. there are lots of reasons to be concerned here and i look as much to patriot in the usa patriot act as i would to the foreign intelligence surveillance both of them and you'll recall of an act over the last ten years patriot ten years ago it was only three years ago but in each of these cases we see the executive branch repeatedly extend authority just sort of ram them down the throats of the legislature and at least in the patriot contacts abuse even those expanded authorities and we could look to national security letters here for a perfect example of the government reaching even beyond the extraordinary powers that it secured ten years ago neither patriot nor pfizer have ever been subject to a full and transparent debate the thought is amendments act of two thousand and eight is so aggressive with respect to the bill of rights that every fed

department of justice decides to investigate based on america's foreign corrupt practices act so basically american listed companies aren't allowed to bribe foreign officials or let police or royal protection officers. well i you know the u.s. justice system is got some cards to play and i mean clearly in los you want to just say that nine eleven was a joke and a bunch of financial mercenaries died on that day and we shouldn't give a flying hoot about it but unless you feel my way then you should prosecute rupert murdoch if it up and stop complaining you whining babies but he's he like first the u.s. department of justice has to investigate dick cheney which they haven't done that yet for his being that. executive during the time that k.b.r. was bribing nigerian officials i remember it turns out that they just paid him the nigerian officials two hundred fifty million something crazy to make sure there was no investigation there and search seeking to raise the debt ceiling because they got all these others of millions of dollars of bribes constantly are adding up the go another two trillion of bribe

american arm of rupert murdoch's empire. senator frank lautenberg asked the justice department to look into a dispute between news america marketing and a new jersey marketing company. the company claimed news america hacked into its computer system nearly a dozen times in 2003 and 2004. the fbi is already investigating allegations that news corp. employees tried to hack into the voice mail accounts of september 11th victims. murdoch denied that in his testimony before parliament. murdoch and his wife wendi returned home to new york yesterday, to a warm reception following the grilling murdoch got in parliament. >>> let me bring in nbc's martin fletcher in london. where do the investigations on both sides of the pond stand? >> reporter: contessa, here with rupert murdoch home in the united states, of course, the investigation is beginning there. the fbi as you mentioned and britain's parliament in summer recess until september 5. it may seem as if the drama's over here at least, but far from it. the government has widened its investigation of news international, rupert murdoch's group in the uk, to include other broadcasters and s

american muslim in uniform. but this time, a call from a store clerk may have prevented another tragedy. our justice department correspondent bob orr has the latest. >> reporter: private first class nassar abdo, awol from kentucky, has been missing for the past three weeks. until tuesday when he showed up in a taxi to buy six pounds of gun powder at this killeen, texas, gun shop. then says craig ebert, abdo asked a strange question. >> the first red flag is when he asked kathy "what is smokeless powder?" if you don't know what it is, why would you buy six pounds of it? >> reporter: police tracked abdo to this nearby motel where he was arrested with what looked like a makeshift bomb factory. in abdo's room, police found gun powder, a pressure cooker, batteries, clocks, a .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun and more than 100 rounds of ammunition. sources say abdo told investigators he wanted to attack fort hold soldiers, perhaps with a bomb at a popular restaurant near the base. abdo explained he was "seeking revenge for what the army did to me." the 21-year-old american-born muslim sought a discharge a year ago a

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american civil liberties union and other civil rights organizations. supervisor elsbernd: you throw out the civil rights division in the department of justice. they're typically the entity that sometimes challenges district lines. did you have any exposure to work like that? >> this was specifically in the department of education. so we dealt more with issues involving k-12 and higher education. after coming to san francisco in 1999, i started working in a small civil rights firm in oakland, and that transferred to a seckel civil rights from the representing plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases, wages, and accommodation that is. a family of five for housing is not granted the housing, either because of the size of their family or because they are a person of color, same-sex couple, things along those lines, as an example. ultimately, i decided to leave the practice of law to go to sf state, because i recognize that yes or more of a consensus- builder and an advocate in that regard than i was comfortable in working in a very different perspective, were often the only outcome we were able to achieve was a check to our client. supervis

justice department pickets battles? i think we know a little bit of the answers so far. it does not mean a raft of new african-american districts in the south. i think the battle is really in california and florida. >> department of justice can file litigation under section 2. if we are going to see them play with politics, that could be the vehicle where we see the department of justice being enacted, supporting this litigation being found in some states. but it does not team to me that section 5 will be their vehicle. >> 40 of bipartisan policy center. the question about competition between different values. if somebody could weigh in on the conflict between latino voters and the emerging asian voters as well. looking for greater representation, having conflicts in the commission. second, having criteria to make more competitive districts, representing communities of interest. certainly, those two are in conflict, to some extent, but has the commission given guidance on how to resolve this conflict? how might it have been more competitive? what is the way the commission makes those decisions? >> competition is actua

jay rock feller is among those who's asking the justice department to look into reports that newscorp executives allegedly bribed police officers. if americans were involved, rockefeller who you see there, says the company may have violated federal anti-bribery laws. members of congress say they're angry of reports that members may have hacked into the phones of 9/11 victims and their families. newscorp's television operations earn $15 billion a year for the company. that's largely thanks to the success of the fox network and hit shows like "american idol," "24" and "the simpsons." newscorp also owns fox sports network and several television stations from new york to los angeles. you can see a map of all the local tv stations fox owns, they're called fox o & os in the u.s. each one of these antennas represents a station under murdoch's control. newscorp also owns and operates fox news, fox business network and other cable networks, including the international geographic channel and fx. let's take a look at the film division that murdoch owns. it's also highly lucrative, bringing in more than $7 billion a year. and this is largely thanks to t

for the fbi, cia, the department of justice for the department of homeland security. >> no, maam. >> okay, thank you. chiefs matthew talked about the recruiting of somali americanyouth immigrants. are there other young people, youth, that have been recruited by al shabaab and al qaeda to your knowledge? >> you know, that is probably a question better serve for federal authorities. cantelli just from open-source information i know of just one individual who was not of somali descent. >> thank you. so there are others of somali descent that you are aware of that have been recruited to your knowledge? >> yes. >> and mr. joscelyn, you talk in your -- you are a terrorist expert and that you have been following this since 2006. in your comments, you said in the very beginning mostly muslims. would you also agree that -- are there any other individuals with any other groups that are also being recruited and radicalized by al shabaab. >> certainly. >> thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul. >> thank you mr. chairman i want to thank you for demonstrating the political courage to hold these hearings. and i must say i am my