Department of Justice

"These are not hard ‘scandals’ to do battle with — we’ve seen much worse and we’ve seen presidents come out of them way better." —Rick Ungar

“Obama has indicted more people under the Espionage Act than all U.S. presidents combined.” —Jesselyn Radack

“Do you know what the problem with drones is? That President Obama got to keep the Nobel Peace Prize but Milli Vanilli had to give the Grammy back.” —John Fugelsang

"Until we see Republican legislators responding to the 85 percent who agree with what we think is the more common sense view, then we’ve got to say, 'Look, Wayne LaPierre is still holding the political cards,' crazy as it may [...]

"The notion that the administration can have a secret understanding of the law — what the law is and how it applies — is really offensive." —Scott Horton

“If the law doesn’t apply equally to everybody, then you don’t really have a system of law." —Matt Taibbi

"Let me be clear. If they [the Department of Justice] fail to make this case, Eric Holder is a failure as attorney general." —Eliot Spitzer

“I think a prosecutor’s primary job is to be a fighter. I mean, he has to be pugnacious, he has to feel like, ‘I’m going to do whatever it takes to get these guys if they’ve done something wrong.’ And [...]

"The apologists and deniers are trying to blind us to the massive problem we still have in the arena of corporate fraud." —Eliot Spitzer

"The Justice Department prosecutes Roger Clemens for perjury — spends countless resources, time and energy worrying about steroids in baseball — yet seems incapable of making cases against the big Wall Street firms that engineered the greatest lies, frauds and [...]

“People are rightfully concerned any time you talk about Florida and voter purges that history is going to repeat itself.” — Ari Berman