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The Associated Press scandal just keeps getting worse, and we haven't even started yet. AP CEO Gary Pruitt informed staffers Wednesday that the Department of Justice monitored, not one, not twenty, but "thousands and thousands" of phone calls made by reporters and editors. Associated Press president and chief executive Gary Pruitt told staff at a Wednesday town hall meeting that the phone records obtained by the government included "thousands and thousands" of calls in and out of the news organization, according to a staffer who attended. Pruitt said Wednesday that the Obama administration acted as "judge, jury and executioner" in...

Politics: This Justice Department's social activism knows no bounds. First it meddled in a border state's right to protect itself. Now it's trying to rewrite school policy to pander to Muslim law. On Monday, Justice sued an Illinois school district for rejecting a Muslim teacher's request to take a three-week leave of absence to travel to Mecca. The suit claims that the Berkeley School District discriminated against middle-school instructor Safoorah Khan, whose religion "required" her to perform the hajj, and is seeking damages for this so-called victim. But it's not stopping there. It seeks an order mandating school officials adopt...

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A Creek County jury late Thursday convicted a former judge who was accused of exposing himself by using a sexual device while he presided over court cases. The panel deliberated more than five hours before returning a guilty verdict against Donald Thompson on all four counts of indecent exposure. The jury had requested a dinner break around 6:30 p.m. and sent a note to the judge at 8:49 p.m. that a decision had been reached. Jurors recommended one year in prison and a $10,000 fine on each count against the judge, 59, who served more than 20 years on the...

BRISTOW, Okla. (AP) -- Former Judge Donald D. Thompson, a veteran of 23 years on the bench, is on trial on charges he used a penis pump on himself in the courtroom while sitting in judgment of others. Over the past few days, the jurors have watched a defense attorney and a prosecutor pantomime masturbation. A doctor has lectured on the lengths the defendant was willing to go to enhance his sexual performance. The white-handled sexual device sits before the jury box for hours at a time. Occasionally an attorney picks it up and squeezes the handle, demonstrating the "sh-sh"...

Former workers say the accused judge's behavior worsened about four years ago. The courtroom behavior of Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson - DEMOCRAT - took a disturbing turn about four years ago, three of his former employees claim. "He's not the same person that he once was," said his former minutes clerk, Dianna Horath Strickland, who began working with the judge in 1983. Dianna Horath Strickland (left) speaks to reporters as Lisa Foster (center) and Zelma Hindman listen. The three women testified before the Council on Judicial Complaints concerning the alleged improper sexual conduct of Creek County District Judge...

Editors Note: This story contains graphic information of a sexual nature. HERE COME DA JUDGE! OKLAHOMA CITY (cnhi) -- A Creek County district judge was named in a petition for removal from office Wednesday after a complaint alleging sexual behavior while presiding over court hearings. The petition to remove District Judge Donald D. Thompson was turned over by the Council on Judicial Complaints to the Oklahoma attorney general's office. The petition was subsequently referred to the trial division of the Court of the Judiciary of the State of Oklahoma. Thompson is accused of using a genital pump while sitting on...

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