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Holder Shakes Up Justice
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... WashPost: The AG is booting the head of the department's internal ethics unit.
Mary Patrice Brown will be named head of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility.
Continued fallout from the botched Stevens prosecution. ...
Justice Dept. to Name New Leader of Internal Ethics Unit
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... ethics violations for accepting gifts from an oil services company executive. ad_icon The ethics job is among the most sensitive and secretive within the Justice Department. Among other issues, the OPR has been examining whether Bush-era lawyers who drafted memos in support of waterboarding and other harsh detainee interrogation tactics followed professional legal standards. Two key Senate Democrats have been advocating for the release of the report on the Bush lawyers. Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
Justice Official Who Probed US Attorney Firings Will Now Lead US Attorneys Office
TPMMuckraker —
... The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Eric Holder will name as the head of the office Mary Patrice Brown, a respected career prosecutor who currently leads the criminal division at the US Attorney's office for Washington DC. Brown will replace Marshall Jarrett, who has been there since 1998, and will shift over to lead the executive office of the US Attorneys. ...
Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... : "The Obama administration might agree to postpone auctioning off 100 percent of emissions allowances under a cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse gas pollution, White House science adviser John P. Holdren said today." * Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to name Mary Patrice Brown, a well-respected career prosecutor, as the new head of the Justice Department's internal ethics unit. Good move. * Speaking of the Justice Department, Keith Olbermann is ...
ThinkFast: April 9, 2009
Think Progress —
... Attorney General Eric Holder “began a series of personnel moves yesterday” aimed at restoring “public confidence in the nation’s highest law enforcement operation.” Holder appointed Mary Patrice Brown to head the Justice Department’s internal ethics unit while moving the unit’s former head, H. Marshall Jarrett, over to lead the executive office of U.S. attorneys. ...
