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The Auditor Sunday, May 13, 2007 In an abrupt about-face, President Bush has decided against nominating Noel Hillman, a veteran prosecutor and now federal judge in Camden, to the seat on the 3d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that was held by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Hillman, a former assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey and the lead Justice Department prosecutor in the Jack Abramoff Capitol Hill lobby ing scandal, had full White House support and the backing of New Jersey Democratic Sens. Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg, and had successfully completed his FBI background check several months...

Note the difference between the WSJ's editorial on April 8, 2005 and its editorial now, as seen in the Jan. 7, 2007 editorial posted below. Where is the WSJ's apology for its April 8, 2005 editorial? http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006534 REVIEW & OUTLOOK The Berger File Sandy Berger didn't destroy documents with notes in the margin. Friday, April 8, 2005 12:01 a.m. Some people won't let a bad conspiracy theory go. We're referring to those who loudly assert that former NSC adviser Sandy Berger was trying to protect the Clinton Administration when he illegally removed copies of sensitive documents from the National Archives...

MIDI - LOSING MY RELIGION If you seek justice...here's news for you You will not find it...it's just an illusion Something inside your mind...that's what you're going to find It's in your mind That's him in the courtroom Let's watch the perfoming skills of Noel Hillman Trying to make it appear that he really will try to win it It's not what you think you see...it's a travesty Behind the scenes they are laughing And Berger will walk away...in prison he won't spend one day And this isn't the first time...it's dejavu with Noel Hillman It is not surprising....look...

Jersey judge up for circuit court post Hillman is expected to be Bush's nominee Tuesday, January 09, 2007 BY ROBERT COHEN STAR-LEDGER WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- President Bush is expected to nominate Noel Hillman, a longtime prosecutor and a newly appointed federal judge in New Jersey, to an opening on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Reliable political sources said Hillman is currently undergoing a background investigation needed before he can be formally nominated to fill the federal appeals court seat vacated a year ago by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. "It's pretty close. It's what...

The investigation into Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist, took a provocative new turn when the Justice Department said that the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down this coming week because he had been nominated to a judgeship by President George W. Bush. The prosecutor, Noel Hillman, is chief of the department's Office of Public Integrity, and the move ends his involvement in an investigation that has reached into the administration as well as into the top ranks of the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. Democrats swiftly questioned the move's timing, and called for a special prosecutor as Bush...

A Virginia man was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for stealing more than 100 Civil War-era documents from the National Archives, including some he tried to sell on eBay. Howard Harner, 68, took letters authored by Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and other historical figures. Federal prosecutors sought a lengthy sentence to help discourage trafficking in stolen American history. Harner, of Staunton, pleaded guilty in March to hiding the documents in his clothing and smuggling them out of a National Archives research room from 1996 to 2002. Prosecutors said he made $47,314 by selling the documents to a...

Sentencing for former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who pleaded guilty in April to stealing and destroying top secret terrorism documents from the National Archives, has been delayed, NewsMax.com has learned. Asked why Berger wasn't sentenced as scheduled on Friday, July 8, a Justice Department spokesman told NewsMax on Tuesday that Berger's sentencing has been postponed till September. The spokesman declined to offer an explanation for the delay. Repeated calls asking about the postponement to Berger's lawyer, Washington, D.C., attorney Lanny Breuer, went unreturned. Federal District Court's U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson, who is presiding over the Berger case, also...

<p>On a day when opposing political parties chose candidates to face off against each other in November, Republican leader Elsie Hillman convened a bipartisan meeting at Chatham College yesterday called One Voice for Choice.</p> <p>It was probably the most high-powered gathering of abortion rights advocates Pittsburgh has ever seen. Among them were Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL); Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Susan Cullman, co-chairwoman of the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition; and Pat Carpenter, executive director of The WISH List -- the political action committee that does fund raising for pro-choice Republicans.</p>