Department of Justice - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of Justice Index / Organizations Transcripts 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... Melanie Bahnke ...through the—what is it called—the Department of Justice grants that have come out. Kawera... Carol Browner ...working, when I was at EPA, with the Justice Department to try and understand the civil right... Jeh Johnson ...after a year of stalemate, the Department of Justice had to agree to give me back th... ...a lot of legal thinking that goes into DOJ [Department of Justice], and he's a... ...of legal thinking that goes into DOJ [ Department of Justice ], and he's at the pinnacle. So h... ...see. —or as a military issue. Well, DOJ very definitely believed it should b... ... There was something else. There was a DOJ policy—what was it—on profiling. Eri... Joe Solmonese ...to pass the bill to working with the Justice Department and with law enforcement all across th... Christine Chen ...but to also work with the Department of Justice or different federal agencies that wer... Gregory Craig ...about what she wanted to do in the Justice Department [DOJ]. And I said, “You ought to b... ...to do in the Justice Department [ DOJ ]. And I said, “You ought to b... ...that are doing the transition into the Justice Department , and another bunch of people are doin... ...of interrogation techniques. In the Justice Department transition, I and Mary DeRosa go ove... ...I've worked with Fred Fielding. The Justice Department did not want just anybody to come i... ...me to talk to. And I spent time in the Justice Department . We also set up a special committe... ...task forces? No. They're run by the Justice Department . Oh, those are DOJ task forces... ...the Justice Department. Oh, those are DOJ task forces. Okay. Yes. And what I d... ...those OLC memos with Mary DeRosa in the Justice Department . I was really appalled that lawyer... ...released was created, I think, by the Justice Department , in response to the threat that the... ...we just release them? So that was a Justice Department question that came to us. The presiden... ...District of New York was giving the Justice Department , that they would lose, was bad lega... ...classified. And I told Main Justice [ Department of Justice Main Building] we thought that ther... ...that are being considered, and our Justice Department people are looking at them, too. It'... ...just the White House counsel. It's the Justice Department . That process begins in January, lat... ...We did not run interference for the Justice Department 's decision to do that. S... ...that the State Department, the Justice Department , and the Office of the White Hous... ...for actions post- nine-eleven are the DOJ 's special prosecutor investigation... ...the military or whether you are in the Justice Department , or whether you're on the White Hous... ...I recommend,” or, “Here's the way the Justice Department sees it,” or, “This is the way.” Yo... ...have been a critical liaison with the Justice Department and the Criminal Division of th... ...and the Criminal Division of the Justice Department that was dealing with the litigation i... ...many, many issues, we were aligned. The Justice Department —I was representing Juan Migue... ...of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department , called me up and said, “We've looke... ...see. So DOMA—in the middle of June, the DOJ —there's litigation that implicate... ...that implicates DOMA, and the DOJ actually submits a brief defending th... ...Biden and White House officials and DOJ lawyers have a meeting in the Roosevel... ...Proposition 8 that's going on. So the DOJ is going to have to decide what it... ...is. Do you all get involved in the DOJ 's decisions on those issues? ... ...LGBT cases and try to work with the Justice Department , particularly in the Solicito... ...believe that, and we didn't want the Justice Department to start using, in the Obama era... ...Department was sort of on notice. The Justice Department , meanwhile, was dealing wit... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Education Education go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Public Health Public Health