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Feds Snooping in Our Twitter Account: WikiLeaks

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 07:47:24 CST

The US is trying to strong-arm Twitter into forking over WikiLeaks' account details, subpoenaing private messages and contact details alike of Julian Assange and Co., reports the AP. WikiLeaks made the complaint in a statement today, alleging that other US web firms were likewise being ordered to surrender info on...

Feds Subpoena Toyota

Nick McMaster — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:45:00 CST

Toyota may be able to add criminal investigations to its growing list of woes: Federal authorities have hit the automaker with subpoenas over the recently reported safety issues with its vehicles. A New York grand jury and the Los Angeles office of the SEC requested information about the problems of...

Ousted Thain Subpoenaed on Early Merrill Bonuses

Nick McMaster — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:53:25 CST

New York’s attorney general issued a subpoena today to force John Thain to testify about his acceleration of bonus payments for Merrill Lynch employees last month, the Financial Times reports. A subpoena was also issued to a Bank of America executive thought to have consulted with Thain—then Merrill’s CEO—...

Bush Could Block Probes Even After He Steps Down

Rob Quinn — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:34:31 CST

President Bush may be able to maintain his executive privilege to block investigations even after he leaves office, the New York Times reports. Harry Truman successfully claimed he had the right not to testify in 1953, nearly a year after he left office, and Richard Nixon later used Truman's case...

Top US Execs Victimized by Devious Phishing Scam

Jonas Oransky — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:06:35 CDT

American executives are the latest targets of an incognito email virus that comes packaged as an authentic-looking subpoena demanding the corporate heads appear before a California grand jury. There have been several victims of the attack, the New York Times reports, which is thought to originated in Singapore or China—...

Dems Threaten White House With Contempt

Lucas Laursen — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:24:56 CST

Democrats have threatened a vote holding White House aides in contempt of Congress if they don't cooperate with an investigation into last year's firing of federal attorneys, the AP reports. A citation, approved this summer by a House judiciary committee, was filed yesterday. If approved by the entire House, a...

Miers May Face Contempt

Caroline Zimmerman — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:37:31 CDT

In a 7-5 vote, a House panel found that former White House counsel Harriet Miers was out of order when she rebuffed a subpoena calling for her to testify about her involvement in the US attorney firings last year. Miers declined to appear before the Judiciary Committee under orders from...