they got there by his justice department handing them guns. and we've heard over and over again from the media that this was a botched program, that this was somehow a mistake of a program that, you know, thousands of guns accidentally and somehow fell into the wrong hands. but if you look at all the testimony and you look at all the documentation, the word "botched," and this being a mistake couldn't be further from the truth. whistleblowers who have been the only people throughout this process, um, who have been telling the truth with documentation to back it up have said that this wasn't a program where a couple thousand guns accidentally fell into the wrong hands, this was a program where they were mandated by their superiors -- including senior officials and the number two with man, lanny breuer, in the justice department -- to allow these guns to go to mexico, not to arrest these guys. they watched them buy guns over and over and over again and transfer them over and other again without watching them or seeing where they were going. and

' going to be and to repeat into what actually happened to the justice department in partnership with other agencies and departments like homeland security claim that the goal was to spend and allow people who come in -- >> straw purchasers of? >> people are coming to gun shops and buy guns for other people, transfer them to criminals, transfer them to criminal organizations. once this program, fast and furious, claimed is going to do was allow these straw searchers to come into gunshots in arizona to purchase these guns. they were going to surveil these two cartel merchant service and traces guns into expensive mexican cartel network and effort to take them what they call the big fish in the cartel. they had to take on the cartel network. the problem is that too these guns actually got them ended up in immersing of one of our border patrol agents, brian terry, on 2010 it turns out that actually they were not tracking these guns. they send 2500 hands into mexico and than 2500 of them basically through gps recording devices on the that doesn't sound like a very series tracing program t

prosecutors, whether at the justice department or down at the county courthouse, are the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system. they decide who gets charged and what they are charged with, life and death decisions in some cases. and when they themselves violate the law, when they withhold evidence or even fabricate a case, they cannot be sued. they have absolute immunity for their official acts. >> they can intentionally engage in wrongdoing, obtain a conviction, put a person in jail for decades and when caught, there's no lawsuit that can be brought by that individual person who's just lost a decade or two of their lives. >> reporter: senator stevens won his fight with the justice department, but lost his life 16-months later in a plane crash. the justice department's prosecution, and how it backfired, will surely be part of his legacy. but will it make any difference in how prosecutors go about their work? that will take better education and training, as attorney general holder has promised. it will also require accountability, meaningful sanctions for prosecutors who t

but the justice department opposes that. deputy attorney general cole testifying no new laws are needed. >> becau the problem was not what the rules were that were in place. the problem was that the prosecutors in the case didn't follow the rules. >> reporter: cases get reversed when prosecutors don't follow the law, but very little ever happens to the offending prosecutor. notwithstanding a finding of "reckless professional misconduct" in the stevens case, only two prosecutors were punished, one suspended for 40 days, another for 15 days. sullivan's law firm issued a written statement calling the sanctions "pathetic" and "laughable" and conclusive pro that "the department ojustice is not capable of disciplining its prosecutors." recent history might seem to bear that out. an investigative report by usa today identified more than 200 cases thrown out by judges as a result of misconduct or ethical violations, but only one of those prosecutors was removed. prosecutors, whether at the justice department or down at the county co

the justice department has denied the preclearance on this.hey say that it has a discriminatory effect. and intent because there are lots more hispanics and blacks who are unlikely to have the sorts of photo i.d.s that would be required under the texas law. >> move this forward it's in district court this week. and take a step back for us nationally beginning with the future of the texas law. what does it mean nationally? lots of states are active in this area? >> there are a lot of states active in this area. some states have managed to enact voter i.d. laws without any sort of problem because they're not under the thumb of the federal government as it were under the voting rights act. those states such as indiana have managed to get it through those cases have gone to the supreme court and been okayed. so there's an enormous amount of resentment in states like texas. why do they get to do it and we don't get to do it. why is it okay in that state and not in our state. this case like most of these cases is destined to go to the supreme court

>> well, i think there was a sense at the justice department that neither would really be that good as an administrator of the details that sometimes a chief justice would be engaged in. besides, many people thought that chief justice -- or then associate justice rehnquist would be good in that role. so what the president proposed was if you will a two-step process. he nominated from within the court which by the way has often happened in the past. where he's elevated to the chief justice job and then because there was a new vacancy with rehnquist's elevation, the president backfilled with justice scalia. >> did the president ever interview scalia or bork? >> swer viewed justice scalia as i recall. i can't recall whether he did sefkly swer view judge bork. of course, he did -- specifically interview judge bork. >> did he just rubber stamp what you all said as the right choice? and is that good, however it happened was that the right way to do it? >> the most critical thing that reagan brought to this whole prois the level of ideas of wanting a judicial conservative. that was very clear

and i am calling upon the justice department and these various departments to investigate through theeral to see who these people are and what access they have to our information. >> deep penetration. those were her worlds. now, to the letters themselves. one being in reaching out to the american muslim community the justice department has been meeting with groups that could be, could be, fronts for the muslim brotherhood. these groups also appear to have been afforded access to senior policymakers in the justice department. in ways that align with muslim brotherhood agendas. and that could prove detrimental to our national and homeland security. in other letters, bachmann and others accused three department of homeland security advisers of having extensive ties to the muslim brotherhood. and says other dhs advisers, quote, appear to share their sympathy for islamist causes. in yet another letter, bachmann and her colleagues claimed that the state department has taken actions that have been, quote, enormously favorable to the muslim brotherhood and its interest. and they single out hu

yesterday, we learned the justice department is investigating whether the law disenfranchises voters. if the answer is yes, there department would have to sue the state. pennsylvania is not covered by the voting rights act or the special provisions leading to heightened scrutiny. fighting on the second front begins tomorrow. the aclu is sueing the state on behalf of a 93-year-old voter. she's a great, great grandmother who doesn't have the requisite id. as part of the case, we learned today, the state admits and i'm quoting them here, there have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in pennsylvania and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any investigations or prosecutions in other states. think about that. the whole point of voter id laws is to prevent in-person voter fraught. that's the idea, that is the reason they exist. so when the state says there's no evidence at all ever of in-person voter fraud, doesn't that mean the law keeping the 93-year-old great, great grandmother is maybe about something else? maybe not about preventing fraud? m

clearly darrell isa suspects a cover-up in the justice department, and the justice department wasn'tfurious and the subpoena apparently has been narrowed to focus quite specifically on that stuff. >> greta: what's surprising about the "washington post" interview, it was the attorney general saying, whoa is me, i'm the target, so is the president having no insight that this is an investigation into the murder of a border agent actually two border agents. i was surprised he thought the focus was all about him. it sort of -- you know, it sort of denigrated, you know, the effort to really sort of get of information for the family, and for the american people. >> he's right that there are a lot of conflicts between republicans in congress and the justice department about things like immigration about things like voter id, about terrorist intentions, but none of those resulted in the attorney general being cited in contempt. this was something big are that congress made a very specific interest to the executive branch of the justice department, and they've stonewalled on it. >> greta: this

department of justice, washington, d.c., and detroit. among other publications, he's co-authored the justice department monograph, how to correctly collect and analyze racial profiling data. your reputation depends on it. he has a bachelors of science degree from southern illinois university in carbondale. he testified at both the previous senate hearing on racial profiling, and sorry it's been so long since we've resumed this conversation, but it's an honor to have you return a few years later, to bring us update. at this point, chief davis, the floor is yours, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. chairman, and distinguished subcommittee members. i'm ronald davis. i'm currently the chief of police for the city of east palo alto, california. i am humbled to provide testimony at today's hearing. as was mentioned, i did have the honor of testifying at the last set of hearings on racial profiling in 2001. when asked to come before this committee today, the first thought that came to my mind was actually a question

. >> the justice department has continued to move forward in fulfilling its critical law enforcement responsibilities. >> bill: no surprise the justice department announcing it will not do anything about attorney general holder being held in contempt of congress. is it legal will explain why. >> i will come on and play your clip and i will apologize for being an idiot. >> bill: should i apologize for getting the supreme court prediction wrong? or are their extenuating circumstances? bernie goldberg will render the verdict. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. should conservatives dispose john roberts. that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. according to a new cnn poll the country is divided over the supreme court's upholding obama care. 50% supporting the decision. 49% not supporting it here is something interesting according to a kaiser foundation poll. 41% of americans don't even know what's going on vis-a-vis obama care, that's a lot of folks. they s

and the question i think most people are asking, and we want justice in this case, and we're pursuing that and we have the department of justice investigation and we all very much want to see that investigation carried out. not only to make sure that justice is carried forward as far as those responsible for his death, but also as to how the investigation, itself, was handled. i think the question that needs to be answered is whether race played a role in trayvon martin being singled out by mr. zimmerman. and that, of course, would be racial profiling, an area that we all believe needs to be -- we need to get rid of that. as far as the legitimacy of using racial profiling in law enforcement. in october of last year, i filed the end racial profiling act, and as you pointed out, carrying on from senator feingold's efforts on behalf of this legislation. i thank you very much for your leadership as a co-sponsor. we have 12 members of the senate who have co-sponsored this legislation including majority leader senator harry reid is co-sponsor. racial profiling is un-american. it's against the values of our nation. it's co

and the federal government made the justice department made quiet announcements that there would be no prosecution for example of countrywide or of a.i.g. . recently however i think that. political pressure in unquestionably the fact that it's a presidential election year has some role in this political pressure and popular pressure generated by the rather incredible recent wave of new scandals in the financial sector is is causing some movement towards finally prosecuting people will see what actually happens and then when you're talking about that movement are you talking for example of reports that barclays traders may face criminal charges in september bloomberg is just out with that and there are other indications from the justice department that they're building criminal cases are these some of the things that you're referring to and do you think as some have said this could be finances tobacco moment. again we'll see but yes that that is what i was referring to and in addition to the recent announcements about. the justice department opening a criminal invest most have been call

the justice department recognized it, the attorney general stopped it. the policy... >> chris: it took 11 months for the justice department to retract the letter and if i may ask you one last question, sir, in the investigation of national security leaks that the pentagon has ordered all of the top relevant officials to preserve all of their documents, the director of national intelligence says, relevant agents must take lie detector tests, as chief of staff have you ordered either of those steps with your staff? >> well, chris, i can't speak to the details of how investigations are being responded to, because as you know, those details themselves are classified. but, i can tell you -- >> no. no. no. wait a minute. it is out there that the pentagon is ordering documents be preserved and the dni is having polygraphs -- >> there will be full cooperation and the -- you know, the fact of the matter is, that, you know, the president feels very strongly that we need to find out where these leaks happened, and he relies on classified information, every day, to

so where are we with the lyrical the justice department? a complete stall. well, this is no accident. the president of the united states got his start with these issues. his first major political challenge chicago for barack obama was with a group called project vote, a voter registration effort that registered 135,000 people and illinois in '91 and '92. project vote was allied with and an affiliate of the acorn. how many of you have ever heard of acorn? the most notoriously corrupt the registration effort ever in american history. it 2008 it's estimated their registered 1 million people. we will still debating whether a majority of those for fraudulent or not. as you know, because of some videos that came out recently regarding, shall we say, the other scandals they ultimately dissolved and had to declare bankruptcy. many of its members have reform in and out during the registration again. i call that a court under the mismanagement. acorn is back. but acorn day barack obama his political birth. he did such a good job running that the registration program t

the department of justice needs to continue to expand response to these state laws using probust civil rights protections. additionally, congress must defund the department of homeland security 287-g in secure community programs which promote racial profiling by turning state and local law enforcement officials into immigration agents. when police officers not trained in immigration law are asked to enforce the nation's immigration laws, they routinely resort to racial stereotypes about who looks or sounds foreign. but you can't tell by looking or listening to someone about whether or not they're in the u.s. lawfully. in order to achieve comprehensive reform, congress needs to provide law enforcement with the tools needed to engage in effective policing. we need to pass the end racial profiling act which would prohibit racial profiling once and for all. and we should urge the administration to strengthen the department of justice guidance using the use of race by federal law enforcement agencies to address profiling by religion and national origin and to close loopholes for the border

have sent letters to the inspecters general of the state department, justice department, defense departmentecurity department and the office of the director of national intelligence. they also made the letters very public. we're going to get to some of the big claims in those letters in just a moment. listen to what bachmann said in a radio interview. >> it appears there has been been deep penetration in the halls of our united states government by the muslim brother hood. the muslim breer brotherhood has been found to be an unindicted co-conspirator on terrorism cases. and yet it appears that there are individuals who are associated with the muslim brotherhood who have positions and very sensitive positions, in our department of justice, our department of homeland security, potentially even in the national intelligence agency. and i am caing upon the justice department and these various departments to investigate through the inspector general to see who these people are and what access they have to our information. >> deep penetration. those were her worlds. now, to the letters themselves.

from the justice department itself and in a recent letter written by the u.s. army's. minal division which says as much but here's the latest democratic senator dianne feinstein has just issued a statement to us trillions largest newspaper demanding as sancia be prosecuted she says mr sanjeev be prosecuted under the espionage act she says she believes assad has knowingly obtained an disseminated classified information which could cause injury to the united states she says he's caused serious harm to the u.s. national security and should be prosecuted accordingly now there are a lot of questions these claims bring about like exactly which serious harm to security she's referring to and how what does knowledge did in publishing secret military cables on wiki leaks differs at all from what newspapers like the new york times did when they also published the very same classified information for the very latest on this we want to turn now to trevor tim he's an activist with the electronic frontier foundation hey there trevor i know that glenn greenwald a writer for s

the justice department itself and also in a recent letter written by the u.s. army's criminal division which says as much but there's something new the latest is that democratic senator dianne feinstein has just issued a statement to australia's largest newspaper demanding that a songe be prosecuted she says mr is on should be prosecuted under the espionage act and she says she believes the songes knowingly obtained and disseminated classified information which could cause injury to the united states he has caused serious harm to u.s. national security and he should be prosecuted accordingly senator feinstein says there are a lot of questions these claims bring about and earlier i was joined by trevor tim activist with the electronic frontier foundation i asked him about the similarities between what wiki leaks did in publishing these classified documents and what the new york times did because they did publish the publish the same information as well. absolutely that's the real problem with this statement is that when she says that isn't just guilty of espiona

the justice department recognized the attorney general stopped it. the policy here -- >> it took 11 months for the justice department to retract the letter. if i may ask you one last question. in the investigation of national security links the pentagon has ordered all of the top relevant officials to preserve all of their documents that record of national intelligence says relevant agents must take lie detector tests. have you ordered each of those with your step? >> i can't speak to the details of how investigations are being responded to because as you know those details themselves are classified. but i can tell you -- >> no, no, no. it's out there that the justice -- that the pentagon is ordering documents be preserved and the dni is having polygraph tests. that's not classified. >> there will be full cooperation and the fact of the matter is that the president feels very strongly we need to find out where these leaks happen. he relies on classified information every day to make life and death decisions. there is nobody more concerned about where

the justice department denied thatt existed. that created confusion. >> guest: and to finish that story, the attorney general made clear he didn't know about that before that. that letter would not have gone. something bad was going on and the justice department recognized that the attorney general stopped it. >> chris: it took him len months to retract the letter. in the investigation of national security leaks, the pentagon has ordered all of the top relevant officials to preserve all of their documents, the director of national intelligence said agents must take lie detector. as chief-of-staff, have you ordered that to your staff. >> guest: i can't speak to the details of how investigations are responding to. those details themselves are classified >> chris: no. it is out there that the pentagon is ordering documents be preserve dni having polygraph. >> guest: there will be full cooperation and the fact of the matter is, that the president feels very strongly that we need to find out where the leaks happened. he relies on cla

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law and whether justice department can continue blocking it.f the law like the vice president claim that it is discriminatory against minority voters but folks disagree and you may remember him, the firm justice department whistleblower accusing the department of racial bias when they dropped charges against the new block panthers in the 2008 voter intimidation case. a legal editor. very good to have you. what is your sense of the legality of what texas is doing? >>guest: well, listen, they probably are going to have a tough time when the verdict is issued because the law is stacked against them. the voting rights act was amended in 2006 to require states like texas to show an absolutely clean soul and they have the burden of prove they have to show there is in discriminatory effect, in discriminatory intent so the law puts them on the defensive. i am not optimistic they will win. >>neil: what is the issue at play here? that they require you to have identification when you go to the polls to vote and the government is coming back and saying, th