Liberty Coalition and other organizations sent out this open letter yesterday to key members of Congress urging them to follow through on their oversight responsibilities and investigate why so many emails have disappeared from the Department of Justice.

Radley Balko has a good overview of asset forfeiture and its abuses over at Reason.  An excerpt:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR201001...

Special to The Washington Post and Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Dear Attorney General Holder:

We write to demand an immediate investigation into the activities of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. We believe there is an abundant public record which establishes that the actions of the White House have blocked any investigation into his activities while on the board of Freddie Mac from 2000-2001, and facilitated the cover up of potential malfeasance until the 10-year statute of limitations has run out.

A political activist targeted in a federal obstruction investigation in Kansas said she has filed a complaint with the Justice Department alleging prosecutorial misconduct in a grand jury investigation of her role in the case of a doctor whose clinic has been linked by prosecutors to 59 overdose deaths.

Congressional Hearing

American Civil Liberties Union Citizen ? American Federation of Government Employees ? Government Accountability Project (GAP) ? Liberty Coalition ? National Employment Lawyers Association ? National Treasury Employees Union ? National Whistleblower Center ? OpenTheGovernment.org ? Project on Government Oversight ? Public Citizen ? Union of Concerned Scientists ? U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation

April, 2009

Groups Seek Whistleblower Rights Clarification from Obama Administration

MIAMI -- U.S. prosecutors in Miami are facing the ire of a federal judge over their decision to order the secret recording of a defense attorney and his investigator in a criminal case and failure to disclose key information to the defense.