THE WASHINGTON POST
Paper Trail of Suppression, Protectionism, & Blackballing

1996

CJA's July 3, 1996 fax to Deputy National Editor Maralee Schwartz --
"telephone conversation with Amy"
      -- SEE:  Judicial Selection: Federal - 1996

CJA's July 30, 1996 fax to Joan Biskupic -- "First Rate Story"

CJA's October 25, 1996 fax to Anna Borgman -- "Your story"

CJA's October 25, 1996 fax to Borgman -- "Your story"


1999

CJA's January 5, 1999 letter to Biskupic --
"UPHOLDING 'THE RULE OF LAW': IMPEACHMENT COMPLAINT AGAINST CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM REHNQUIST /THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE"
       -- SEE:  Test Cases - Federal (Mangano)

CJA's January 8, 1999 letter to Biskupic--
"THE MANDATE OF IMPARTIALITY: impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Rehnquist and the media-unreported story about the House Judiciary Committee"

CJA's February 18, 1999 letter to Biskupic --
"MEDIA-UNREPORTED IMPEACHMENT STORIES"


2004

April 15, 2004
"Conduct Trial Gets Off to Rough Start: N.Y. Woman
Is Accused of Disrupting a Senate Hearing"
(Henri Cauvin)

April 21, 2004
"Activist Convicted Of Disrupting Senate Committee" 
(Henri Cauvin)

CJA's April 27, 2004 e-mail to Ombudsman Michael Getler (4:27 p.m.) --
"When might I hear from you?"
            -- SEE: "'Disruption of Congress'"

Michael Getler's April 27, 2004 e-mail  (4:45 p.m.) --
"RE: When might I hear from you?"

CJA's April 27, 2004 e-mail to Getler (10:25 p.m.) --
"Thank you for your response, etc."

CJA's May 11, 2004 e-mail to Assistant City Editor Bill Miller (3:48 p.m.) --
"Roll Call: 'Correcting the Record'"

CJA's May 19, 2004 e-mail to Getler (4:45 p.m.) --
"Needed Oversight of your delegation of responsibilities"

CJA's May 20, 2004 letter to Helen Dewar --
"Proposal for an investigative expose of the Senate's wilful refusal to 'scrutinize' the qualifications of 'noncontroversial' federal judicial nominees, including its rebuff of nonpartisan citizen opposition, by a casestudy examination of its confirmation of New York Court of Appeals Judge Richard C. Wesley's nomination to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals"
        -- SEE: PAPER TRAIL TO JAIL in "disruption of Congress" case

Dewar's May 20, 2004 e-mail  (1:13 p.m.) --
"RE: 'Noncontroversial' Federal Judicial Nominees"

CJA's May 20, 2004 letter to Dewar --
"Memorializing your response to CJA's proposal for an investigative expose -- AND securing expeditious supervisory review by your editors, beginning with Eric Pianin"

CJA's May 20, 2004 fax to National News Editor Eric Pianin (7:30 p.m.)  -- "Supervisory Oversight of Helen Dewar"

CJA's May 20, 2004 e-mail to Pianin  (7:38 p.m.) --
"Supervisory Oversight of Helen Dewar by her Editors, beginning with Eric Pianin"

CJA's May 25, 2004 letter to Pianin --
"Proposal for Investigative Coverage -- and Request for Supervisory Oversight over Helen Dewar for Unprofessional, Irresponsible Conduct Relating Thereto"

CJA's May 25, 2004 e-mail transmittal to Pianin (5:42 p.m.) --
"Proposal for Investigative Coverage & Request for Supervisory Oversight Over Helen Dewar"

Bill Miller's May 26, 2004 e-mail (4:01 p.m.) --
"D.C. Superior Court"

CJA's May 27, 2004 memo to Henri Cauvin, Bill Miller, Helen Dewar, Eric Pianin, Michael Getler --
"FOLLOW- UP COVERAGE: 'DISRUPTION OF CONGRESS': JUNE 1st SENTENCING: USA v. Elena Ruth Sassower: 'Championing Basic Citizen Rights  -- and the Vital Importance of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection'"

CJA's June 25, 2004 memo to Cauvin, Miller, Dewar, Pianin, Getler --
"FOLLOW- UP COVERAGE: 'DISRUPTION OF CONGRESS': JUNE 28th SENTENCING: USA v. Elena Ruth Sassower: 'Championing Basic Citizen Rights  -- and the Vital Importance of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection'

June 29, 2004
"Defiance Leads to Cellblock: Senate Disrupter Won't Apologize"
(Henri Cauvin)

2005

CJA's August 9, 2005 memo --
"DISCHARGING YOUR JOURNALISTIC RESPONSIBILITIES BY FOLLOW-UP REPORTING ON THE 'DISRUPTION OF CONGRESS' CASE"
       -- sent to Henry Cauvin, Bill Miller, Eric Pianin, Charles Babington & Shailagh Murray, Michael Getler
             -- SEE: "'Disruption of Congress' - The Appeals (D.C. Court of Appeals)"

2006

CJA's October 11, 2006 memo --
"YOUR 2006 ELECTION COVERAGE & ONGOING SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL RACES OF 2008 AND BEYOND"


2007

CJA's November 19, 2007 e-mail to Robert Barnes: "Bringing Accountability to the U.S. Supreme Court"
             -- SEE: "'Disruption of Congress' - The Appeals (U.S. Supreme Court)"


CJA's December 11, 2007 memo to Barnes: 
"CONTRIBUTING TO SCHOLARSHIP & TEACHING..."


2008

CJA's March 11, 2008 e-mail to Barnes & Carol Leonnig --
"TODAY'S Closed-Door Judicial Conference Deliberations on the Proposed New Rules for Federal Judicial Discipline"

  SEE:   CJA's March 6, 2008 Letter to Chief Justice Roberts & Critique of Breyer Committee Report

2011

CJA's March 17, 2011 e-mail to National Desk, Metro Desk --
"'Without printed report': Caitlin Halligan's nomination to the US Court of Appeals to the DC Circuit on the Senate's Executive Calendar"

March 17, 2011
"Senate confirms second D.C. federal court nominee this week"
(Ben Pershing)

December 6, 2011 
"Senate Republican filibuster blocks Obama D.C. Circuit nominee
Caitlin Halligan", Washington Post blog

2021

CJA's September 12, 2021 e-mail to Executive Editor, Managing Editor, Deputy Managing Editors, Enterprise Editor, National Editor, Investigations Editor, Deputy Investigations Editors --
"NEWS LEAD:  Are the President's nominees for U.S. Attorney being vetted for conflicts of interst by the White House & the Senate Judiciary Committee?  The EVIDENCE is NOT encouraging"

 

2023

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