the justice department isn't accusing governor christie.t's just pointing out his accounting was a bit lax. but why? doesn't holder have anything more important to do? this is a desperate attempt to denigrate governor christie, is it not? what other explanation is there for this? the governor should just write hold ear check for 2 grand and send it to him. preposterous. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from austin, texas fox news analyst karl rove partly responsible for fox owe phobia. you know it is your fault, mr. rove. >> i thought it was all your fault. i'm willing to accept part of the blame. isn't that amazing snarky dana milbank who writes a column several days a week that is bitter and brittle and nasty to people on the center right of politics he has to call doug shone a nominal democrat. was joe trippi who ran howard dean's campaign, you know, not enough of a democrat for mr. milbank, kirsten powers who writes columns advocating the democrat line and disagreeing with republican line, is she

the justice department had no idea no in part it's the cia doing it in their own bubble it's the army doing it in their own bubble they helped clear. butcher immigrate out of europe for example it's the space agency recruiting rocket scientists like vernon von brown and others what we have here is it's a horror story about that sheltering of the nazis and then it's a kind of success story in the second thirty years as they chase down these guys take away their citizenship reveal the truth tracked down even people who were serving presidents of austria kurt waldheim this office exposed what he had done to collaborate with the nazis in world war two so horror story about this very black part of american history success story over a long time that you can still push for justice well that's that's what americans love right i love to bring someone down you know i need them back up so and that sense you know if this does like you said you know mark a very dark period in american history something that definitely isn't going to look good on its record but then if they tried to make up for it

offer to justice when the people who are accused of very grave crimes are politically connected powerful senior ormer and current officials i think that is another area in which the department of justice is operations unfortunately reek of the same politicization that we've seen in a prior era is. and i think you're right that this problem unfortunately is happening across several continents yeah and we we in fact you know covered that story as well and spoke with the a.c.l.u. when it turns out of the justice department they don't want to press criminal charges because the cia tapes had been destroyed but one of the things that i also noticed in your letter that you wrote to president barack obama to attorney general eric holder nancy pelosi harry reid as that you know you're a cautioning this administration not to become like those of the past perhaps you know who have histories of grand juries harassing activists but do you think that it's a little too late i mean have they already set that type of record for themselves. unfortunately i fear that at least for the first two years of the administration you're right that record has been set but there are another two years le

jewish groups say the justice department should make the report public. >> they sit on the report, whichnly leads to guesswork. >> we're still covering up and hiding the role that some in our country played by some perverse sense of national interest. i think it's time that our country knew. >> reporter: a former director of the justice department's nazi hunting unit says whatever comes out must be accurate for the sake of history. >> we're talking now about issues of the holocaust and justice, and it seems imperative what is released be accurate. >> reporter: tonight the justice department says the report is a draft that kans some mistakes. it was never finished because prosecutors said they had higher priorities chasing current cases. >>> when we come back, our making the difference report. would you believe free health care? art can cause a stroke in your brain? it's true. an irregular heartbeat, called atrial fibrillation, or afib, can make a blood clot form, here, in your heart, that can break free and go straight to your brain where it can cause a serious stroke. having atrial fibr

well, this week, the justice department announced that that criminal investigation was over.o the national archives said sure enough this is back on the radar screen. we're not going to let this matter drop. it depends to suppress the cia and demand answers as to how it complied with the federal records act. >> michael, why did the justice department drop the case in the first place? i can't remember a case more clear destruction of evidence. well the special council appointed by the last -- he spent three years on this. he was focused on whether or not it could be proven that this material was wanted in a criminal case in an ongoing legal proceeding. if it can be shown that the cia officials knew that and did so deliberate rattly to conceal the tapes from that legal proceeding, he may have a criminal case. we don't know what he found, all we know is the justice department announced this week it was not grounds for bringing criminal charges. >> michael, can i be cynical here and wonder if the bush appointee ran out the clock so the statute of limitations would be over after t

. >> mitchell: the "new york times" today posted on its web site a never released justice departmenteport detailing the extent to which nazi war criminals were allowed to enter the u.s. after world war ii, it is a report the government has suppressed for years. according to the long secret report after world war ii nazis were allowed not u.s., some for intelligence reasons, as the nation's focus shifted to the cold war. the 600 page report called "striving for accountability in the aftermath of the holocaust" does not put a number on the nazis admitted but concludes that, quote, america which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted became in some small measure a safe haven for persecuters as well with. >> it's repugnant that intelligence agencies would want to do business with people that were involved in the worst genocide in the history of man kind. >> mitchell: responding to revelations about suspected nazis in the u.s., in 1979 the justice department created the office of special investigations to identify and deport nazis. the government has since deported 67 and

justice department refuses to give me personally any comment regarding what will happen next to victor boot but i can tell you that prosecutors are preparing to address the media some point wednesday that would detail how the the trial would proceed if there is to be a trial where he will be held in the time being as i mentioned i did reach out to the justice department to just find out basic questions when the arraignment would be where mr boot would be relocated to whether he would be held under special administrative measures that the justice department wrote me back saying that they would not comment or answer any of my questions obviously this has added a tense element to the relations between the united states and russia russian foreign minister sergei lavrov weighed in on the situation questioning why this clandestine activity is taking place at the moment. but. despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying victor boots guilt was not proven the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the u.s. like consider this unprecedented political pressure on the lega

justice department refuses to give me personally any comment regarding what will happen next to victor boot but i can tell you that prosecutors are preparing to address the maybe some point wednesday that would detail how the the trial of victor boot would proceed if there is to be a trial where he will be held in the time being as i mentioned i did reach out to the justice department to just find out basic questions when the arraignment would be where mr boot would be relocated to whether he would be held under special administrative measures and the justice department wrote me back saying that they would not comment or answer any of my questions we have spoken though to various international law experts who weighed in on the situation as to what could possibly happen to victor boot let's take a listen he will be taken before united states federal magistrate judge or a hearing to determine whether or not he should be jailed pending or whether he should be released. because he has the right to counsel. that he should be released. if the federal magistrate judge makes a determination th

the justice department role could be significant in some of these.dated that we're talking about a different calculus now. >> i know the state of florida passed a redistricting measure. how much impact is this going to have, florida's been one of the most famous gerrymandered states and yet it's always at a very republican -- republican control of the map process. how is that going to change in florida? >> to the extent that any reform takes some power away from the legislature, you are likely to get a fairer map built out of it, but in a place like florida given what we know about the politics of the state, you would say that the republicans are likely to be advantaged at this point. >> all right, dan balz, nobody's watched more of these fights. it's going to be a mess. antho arizona and iowa are the stars because they do it so fairly. thanks very much. >>> trivia time. what newly elected member of congress once worked as a referee for an nhl farm team? the answer is patrick meehan. he spent two years in the nfl and became a referee. >>> coming up,

attorneys in the justice department. he then joined the fbi and served as its general counsel. he then was appointed the u.s. attorney, chief prosecutor in washington, d.c., where he oversaw the prosecution of a series of high-profile white- collar cases. he then was confirmed by the senate in a new position, particular to our discussion today, the assistant attorney general for national security at the justice department, which essentially met that while i was defending the eight -- which essentially means that while i was defending the aipac defendants, he was prosecuting the aipac defendants. he then left to serve as the homeland security adviser to president bush, and then left or far practice -- left for private practice with 0 melveny & myers. we have the press perspective and we will have some important insight on the classification process which is very important in trying to understand how these things work. and i will play the role of moderator but also be on the defense side to make sure that we get all the perspectives covered. all right, so i think we are ready to

the new position of particular relevance today, the assistance for attorney general at the justice department. which essentially meant that while i was defending the aipac department, he was defending the aipac defendant. hence, all of the fond disrespect that i referred to earlier. after that, he left to serve as the first assistant, i'm sorry, the homeland security advisor to president bush. as i indicated before, left for private practice. for the purpose of our discussion today, we are the prosecution or government, press, important insight on the classification which is very important, and i will play the role of moderators, but also step many on the defense side to make sure that we get all of the perspectives covered. all right. so i think we're ready to roll. okay. the problems that we're going to discuss with the panel that typically are found in a prosecution -- investigation prosecution of a classified information case there are a number of issues that we're going to discuss. we're going to discuss the prevalence of the disclosures of the paradigm that we discussed that was assesse

all justice departments have.ed to defend laws constitutionally passed by the united states congress and signed by former presidents. >> larry: so he has to defend it for now. >> we are pushing as hard as we can. we had a meeting today with the leadership and the congress saying we very much would like to see you pass legislation now saying end don't ask, don't tell. >> larry: dick cheney -- not dick cheney. i'm sorry. colin powell was here the other night. >> yeah. >> larry: he said he supports john mccain in this matter. let's wait until we do the whole investigation by the military. let's wait until we hear from everybody. don't rush it. do you agree with that? >> we are going to see that shortly. there will be a report in december coming from the defense department on their recommendation. so as my grandpoppy used to say with the grace of god there will be confluence of the two. >> larry: we'll be right back with the better half. fiber one chewy bar. how'd you do that? do what? it tastes too good to be fiber.

the justice department is still investigating whether the interrogation methods were legal. >>> a carnival cruise ship off the coast of mexico tonight lost power after a fire in the engine room yesterday. nobody was hurt but there are still no hot meals, no air-conditioning. military helicopters have been dropping supplies onto the ship and engineers were able to get toilets working again. the tugboat will try to pull the ship to san diego. carnival hopes that the ship will reach ore by thursday, late thursday. >>> from vancouver, canada, a man in a wheelchair is being called a hero tonight. he was inside a convenience store over the wekend when a man tried to pass counterfeit money and then got into a fight with the woman behind the counter. on the store's surveillance video, you can see larry spotnik grabbed the suspect and then wrestled him to the ground. spotnik is paralyzed below the waist, but he says his father taught him a long ago that the definition of a goodman is helping others when they need it. >>> the nation takes the lead in pushing the commonwealth to a higher cigarette ta

you know alone unfortunately the department of justice has not disclosed any information they wrote me an e-mail saying we are not commenting on anything and i ask all the questions you just asked me when will be will he be arraigned when will he be arriving where will he be taken to mr we can confirm that some media outlets are reporting that victor boot has already arrived in new york we are awaiting official comment but we should mention that when victor boot left bangkok he was under extremely heavy guard he was excluded by eight people including some that were wearing d. e a jackets he was wearing himself mr britt was wearing a bulletproof vest ballistic missile ballistic helmet and so obviously this is a man that was surrounded by a high level of security and we can only. anticipate that once he is in new york and it is confirmed that he's in new york he will be held under strict security measures now we can't have a mention of course of the timing of this is unfortunate or i guess perhaps coincidental depending on who you ask you know the u.s. and russia are experiencing a reset

. >>> never-before-released justice department reports indicate the u.s. became a safe haven for the nazi war criminals after world war ii. the 600-page report was published today on the new york times website. the report says some nazis were allowed to immigrate to the united states for intelligence reasons. >> the intelligence agencies would want to do business with people that were involved in the worse look in the history of mankind. >> a strong burden on making it to the public. it's something that we could learn from our mistakes. >> the report does not mention the number of nazis allowed into the u.s. in 1979. the justice department created the office of specialinvestigations to identify and deport nazis. they have since reported the entry of another 200. the group of vietnam veterans visiting washington has returned home tonight, but their trip to the nation's capitol was not about some unexplained excitement. the veterans are celebrating a 40th reunion that they have just finished dinner on thursday night, heading to their hotel when their tour bu

on capitol hill, some republicans are calling on the justice department to put assange behind bars, too, under the charge of espionage. but that won't be easy. for starters, assange is an australian citizen whose whereabouts are currently unknown and the espionage laws are outdated, written during world war i. >> those were designed for a different era, a different kind of espionage threat. they talk about sketches and code books and signal books. they weren't designed to deal with a mass leak on the internet >> reporter: the white house has ordered a government-wide crackdown on how classified information is handled to try to make sure this doesn't happen again, but it's too late for the hundreds of thousands of documents that are already in wikileaks' possession and they plan to release over the coming months. katie? >> couric: chip reid reporting from the white house. chip, thank you. in his report tonight, david martin touched on the worldwide alarm over the prospect of iran developing nuclear weapons. today, two of iran's top nuclear scientists were targeted by hit squads. as eliza

never been in use by the justice department until that time. and so we have this hard job of trying to figure out, do the impressive interrogation methods that the cia wanted to use at that time, right, a few months after 9/11 violate the criminal statute against torture. i didn't think then or now that the ci a's methods do. >> john, would you agree that waterboarding would constitute harsh interrogation rather than plain vanilla interrogation? >> of course. certainly there is questioning of the kind that we use every day in the united states and police stations all over. obviously water boarding goes well beyond what the police officers do in the police stations. >> now, i want to go one step beyond that. your objection, i gather, tell me if i'm wrong, to the way the department of justice and the obama administration handle the ghalani case is they tried it in the civilian court and certain evidence as a consequence of that is ruled inadmissible. in a military tribunal, it would have been admissible. >> i have a broader objection to the use o

attorneys in the justice department. he then joined the fbi and served as its general counsel. he then was appointed the u.s. attorney, chief prosecutor in washington, d.c., where he oversaw the prosecution of a series of high-profile white- collar cases. he then was confirmed by the senate in a new position, particular to our discussion today, the assistant attorney general for national security at the justice department, which essentially met that while i was defending the eight -- which essentially means that while i was defending the aipac defendants, he was prosecuting the aipac defendants. he then left to serve as the homeland security adviser to president bush, and then left or far practice -- left for private practice with 0 melveny & myers. we have the press perspective and we will have some important insight on the classification process which is very important in trying to understand how these things work. and i will play the role of moderator but also be on the defense side to make sure that we get all the perspectives covered. all right, so i think we are ready to

and he thought this was a critical part of the justice department's history and there needed to be a at both the successes and some of the failures of the department. >> right. and the intent of this report was to make it public? >> absolutely, yes. he saw this as a document that the public had a right to see and a need to see. >> yet, that hasn't happened? the justice department has been sitting on it for four years, why? >> that's right. well, mark richard finished the document along with the author judith fagan, and since 2006 was trying to get the report published, get the final sign-off from the justice department and got for the most part blank stares and unwillingness to do that. and in fact, he passed away sadly last year, and until his dying days was telling people that it was one of his -- he would tell them his bucket list essentially. one of his three wishes was to see this report published and that never happened. >> let's tell people why this report is so fascinating. in it, there are amazing disclosures, including the fact that one official at the department of justice

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that is a perfect i wil illustrn of how you out of the ordinary this justice department is. understand why they believe civilian trials are good, i mean that is a nice liberal point of view, but in these cases they are not good. in these cases it would be far better to have a military tribunal with all the constitutional protections that military tribunals are forced to comply with, but it's a much easier way of bringing the case, presenting the facts, establishing the case and of course bringing justice to these people who have been responsible for willing, you know, thousands of americans. jenna: all right, senator hatch we appreciate it. again senator orrin hatch, the republican from utah. thank you so much, sir. >> nice to be with you. jon: steven slater, remember this guy, the jetblue flight attendant who cursed out passengers and opened the emergency door and slid down the slide with a couple of beers in his hand? well he's got a new gig. you have to see it to believe it. we'll show it to you next. [singing] ♪ to stay fit, you might also want to try lifting one of thes

he discussed justice department programs aimed at helping tribal communities in the u.s. and this is just 25 minutes. >> good morning and welcome. my name is tracy. i'm the director of the office of travel justice. it's my pleasure to join the attorney general, eric holder, associate attorney general, tom perrelli and our distinguished speakers, doj senior leadership and all of you at the department of justice to come here today at the 2010 american indian and alaska heritage month program. the theme of this year's program is american indians in government securing our future. to begin our program, i would like to ask you all to rise and we're going to receive a traditional blessing from mr. benjamin headshift who is a sundance leader with the northern cheyenne tribe and his part of the drum group today. mr. headswift? >> well, first of all, i would like to say thank you for giving us such an honor to be here. this is a historical event for us. i just want to take this time and acknowledge those back at home who couldn't be here and who are very proud of this and humbled b

. >> a previously secret justice department report shows that the u.s. knowingly allowed german nazi party members to live here after world war ii to work on the space program. arthur rudolf was one of the nasa scientists featured in the report published today in the new york times. now, according to the report, rudolf admitted to u.s. officials that in 1947 he directed a german rocket plant during the war where jews and others were used as slave labor. in spite of orders from president truman to keep nazis out of the u.s., rudolf became the father of the saturn 5 rocket that put americans on the moon. and previous court filings, the justice department said its report was never finalized and contains numerous factual errors. >>> coming up, finally a heroing experience at sea ends for a couple after two ransoms were paid. >> thanking our veterans. how one community paid tribute to a soldier who became a double amputee while serving in iraq. >>> record heat today. the warm weather will not be lasting for long. let you know when we could have a dusting of s

the justice department told ken fineberg this is a critical time for the claims fund as the fund transitionssy payments to paying interim and final claims. the department has concerns about the pace of the claims process, fineberg said that he has paid out some $2 billion of the $20 billion so far. he describes the palms as generous, but agrees there is room for improvement. >> and still to come, with new airport screening procedures getting increased. one flight attendant said things went way too far in north carolina. >> the new effort to help chicago's famed bungalow go green. >> one look at the after math of this two car crash in skokie left night and you might say it is a miracle no one was kill. two vehicles collided at 9:30 friday evening. police say the driver of silver pontiac hit the red toyota as it is going east. the impact literally split the camry in two, injuring the three okay cue pans inside. one person inside of the pontiac injured. all of them injured with nonthreatening injuries. >> evidence indicates that pips to a double murder/suicide in the case of three bodies found

justice department is giving $300,000 to fight gunning crime and gang activity. they'll present the grants to the maryland attorney general's on friday. a $190,000 grant will pay an assisting attorney to pay for crimes. and several are getting a total of $106,000 to help cut down on police work. >>> and a clear and crisp day. nothing but sunshine outside right now. and that's going to warm up the day. bern, you could make it nicer. we have the first weather warning coverage. i like this weather. >> no, it's not bad. and when the wind dies down, it will get better. it's already close to the average. we'll take this away. we've jumped up to 59 degrees and believe it or not, that's the average for the time of the year. it's hard to remember we're already done with a week in november and we have that knotterly wind. it won't be like it was yesterday, but it will gust at times. we'll lose the wind tomorrow and as we head into the week, we'll see more changes. >>> and thank you, bern, good afternoon, everyone. we'll talk a little bit of weather trivia. we're at 59 degr

>> and the justice department was asking that this week. here is the problem. we just said that the government could not call a key witness. a taxi driver from tanzania who would have testified that he sold the explosives used in the bombing. the job said was the way that he was interrogated, questioned by the c.i.a. the judge called it extremely harsh interrogation. but the problem is the fifth amendment put galany's statement -- they couldn't touch it. anything that flowed from that including the fact that galaney, they could not hear the trial. legally they got a conviction. but politically it has touched off this whole debate again. republicans john boehner for example has said that this shows the decision was bad from the start. mitch mcconnell was asking that this approach is deeply harmful to national security but as to whether it would have come out different in a military commission, which is the question, would this have been admissible? >> the judge addressed himself to that question. he said the military's own rules might have blocked the same kind

the cia destroyed the tapes in 2005, citing no legal reason to keep them much the justice departmentl investigating whether the interrogatio methods are legal. >>> many of youill likely have the day off for veterans day. for those of you who are working we have a few travel alerts for you. no vre service all day tomorrow. mark will be running but running on an "s" schedule. only trains designated with an "s" on the schedule will operate. metrorail will be operating normally. however, metrobus will run on a limited schedule. riders should check th metro to see whether their bus will be running on time. >>> and the cost of smoking about to go up for some people. who is proposing raising tax on a pack of sdprets. >>> it is a cool morning but things are looking up. weather and traffic are next. stay with us. >> a rder mystery that continues to baffle police. why they hope e-mails may >>> our time is 5:39. 21 minutes before 6:00 in the morning. 50 degrees ase pan across the skyline of the nation's capital. pretty scene out there. we'll have a pretty day today. >> more of the same. here it

. >>> the justice department says no criminal charges will be filed against cia officials who destroyed 92 tapes that showed the brutal interrogation of the secret tapes were shot at overseas prisons after the 9/11 attacks. they reportedly captured two suspects facing waterboarding, a form ewe simulated drowning. those tapes were destroyed in 2005 out of fear they could be leaked to the public and compromise the identity of the interrogators. cia investigators could still be charged with making false statements to the probe. >>> president obama dashes from country to country on his extensive tour of asia. he is head to seoul. he spent tuesday in indonesia where he reached out to muslims saying america will never be at war with islam. meanwhile, a conservative muslim minister has stirred up controversy with some indonesians labelling as a hi o hypocrite for shaking first lady michelle obama's hand. the minister is claiming mrs. obama forced the handshake on him. >>> federal officials say they've arrested three former marines for selling weapons to a las vegas gang. the suspects ringleade

and the attorney general will be looking at what happened today and this is going to make any justice department lawyer gunshy of putting khalid shaikh mohammed through a conventional civilian trial. ghailani was convicted of a fairly serious crime, justice was served by the way. the reason he didn't get a larger sentence is because evidence gathered in the course of the coercive interrogation on him was excluded by the judge in this case. so the american legal system actually worked today, it may not be to everybody's, you know, pr predelection, they don't know the other things, if they had been told other thing that's are probably true he might have got a bigger sentence. but given the evidence they were presented, the evidence that wasn't obtained by coercive interrogations i think they made the right choice. >> moving forward, do you think any more suspects should be tried in civilian courts? >> i don't think they should be, anderson. i think i've been pretty clear on this. i think we have a military commissions process that's been put into place. it's been adjusted by the congress in a mann