Department of Justice - Obama Presidency Oral History Department of Justice Index / Organizations Transcript Carol Browner ...working, when I was at EPA, with the Justice Department to try and understand the civil right... Don Verrilli ...at some point, serving in the Justice Department in particular. It was a dream of min... ...DC, to have, of working in the Justice Department . I became a very early supporter o... ...attorney general, the number two in the Department of Justice [DOJ], David Ogden, was a close an... ...two in the Department of Justice [ DOJ ], David Ogden, was a close an... ...is the chief operating officer of the Justice Department and really, in many ways, on ... ...of the state-secrets privilege by the Department of Justice . That had been an issue in the 200... ...and some career folks, even, in the Department of Justice and in the Department of Defense... ...someone who had wanted to go into the Department of Justice , who is finally there, and you'r... ...it. I had had a wonderful experience at DOJ , and I would have been happy to sta... ...was the associate attorney general at DOJ , was the principal person negotiatin... ...some on that issue even when I was in DOJ in 2009, thinking about the structur... ...and Consumer Protection Act]. The DOJ had weighed in on the structure of tha... ...that law and specifics of that law, as DOJ would for any important law, and I wa... ...of 2010, was to be the liaison with the Department of Justice on the defense of the Affordable Car... ...need to focus on the defense. The Department of Justice , of course, was leading the defense... ...don't do that work. The lawyers in the Department of Justice do. But because this was such ... ...well, and being in communication with DOJ about it. And that ended up being m... ...and dealing with the leadership at DOJ . Probably, in retrospect, the mos... ...early on, probably April of 2010, the DOJ lawyers working on the matter came ove... ...whether it was constitutional. But the DOJ lawyers also recommended that we have ... ...to include the tax-power argument. The Department of Justice recommends that we do so. Here's why... ...wasn't true at all. The lawyers at the Justice Department were very thoughtful about it righ... ...who are really serious thinkers in the Department of Justice , people whose views I really, reall... ...jammed full of people, lawyers from the Department of Justice , from the Treasury Department, fro... ...the Obama administration and the Justice Department was out on a bit of limb, because th... ...not to defend DOMA. Normally, the Justice Department defends the constitutionality o... ...to make. We debated it within the Department of Justice very vigorously, and there was a lot o... ...practices with the government, with the Department of Justice , was a key, key feature of that law... Show more... Kathleen Sebelius ...Then, I worked at a project under the Justice Department where we actually went into prisons an... ...trauma side of the operation; the Department of Justice , who had a lot to do with backgroun... ...Then, I worked at a project under the Justice Department where we actually went into prisons an... ...trauma side of the operation; the Department of Justice , who had a lot to do with backgroun... Lisa Jackson ...but we all worked. Then, of course, DOJ [Department of Justice], which was i... ...we all worked. Then, of course, DOJ [ Department of Justice ], which was in charge of bringing th... ...those penalties with the help of the Department of Justice , and then so could Department o... Sylvia Burwell ...you lost your mind?” It's the Clinton Justice Department that's doing this investigation, an... Melanie Bahnke ...through the—what is it called—the Department of Justice grants that have come out. Kawera... Related Topics go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy The Peoples' House Coming soon Africa Coming soon Education Coming soon