Budget Crunch Hits U.S. Attorneys' Offices

Wall Street Journal by Scot J. Paltrow | Aug. 31, 2007 (News Report)

Whoever succeeds Alberto Gonzales as attorney general will face a long list of challenges at the Justice Department, from unfilled senior positions to sagging morale. One of the most pressing, according to dozens of current and former federal prosecutors, is a budget squeeze at U.S. attorneys' offices that has led to declines in crime prosecutions and delays in major investigations.

In the past few years, U.S. attorneys' offices around the country ... Full Story »

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 by Ben Ross - Oct. 1, 2008

good as far as it goes...where are the questions on this subject that the WSJ asked Alberto Gonzales as he was seeking AG status....Did any senator confront these issues, during any congressional hearing? Was the underfunding premeditated to play nice with corrupt politicians and businesses? What do the fired A's G have to say? Legal experts? Presidential candidates? This story needs extensive research and a commitment to satisfy an 7th grade ethics debate club topic quire. Lies about underfunding of D of J due to war are plane dumb, like advice to not stay home and be afraid ...go shopping during a orange alert! There suggestion are an affront to any thinking person's intelligence, thusly reducing the entire reports credibility.

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