{"id":198012,"date":"2007-12-20T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/20\/mukasey-limits-white-house-access-to-investigations\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T02:33:00","slug":"mukasey-limits-white-house-access-to-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/20\/mukasey-limits-white-house-access-to-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukasey Limits White House Access to Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the policy before the tenure of Abu Gonzalez, when political operatives had unlimited access to the DoJ, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/23446.html\">now we are back to a situation where WH operatives will not have the access exert undue political influence  on ongoing investigations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The original policy authorized more than 40 Justice Department officials and 400 White House officials to know about ongoing investigations, according to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, a leading Democratic proponent of changing the policy.<\/p>\n<p>During the Clinton administration, seven White House and Justice officials were permitted to receive such information.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said Mukasey&#8217;s new policy mirrors the Clinton administration&#8217;s, but allows more officials to receive details about national security matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is my first pleasant surprise from Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#038;trade<\/sup> in a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">long<\/span> time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the policy before the tenure of Abu Gonzalez, when political operatives had unlimited access to the DoJ, and now we are back to a situation where WH operatives will not have the access exert undue political influence on ongoing investigations: The original policy authorized more than 40 Justice Department officials and 400 White &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}