"President Bush's dumping of Mason can only be viewed as a bald-faced and brazen attempt to wrongly manipulate an important enforcement decision by the nation's campaign finance enforcement agency," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, an advocacy group, in a statement.
Leonhart has publicly complained about the Justice Department's failure to sue Washington and Colorado for legalizing and regulating marijuana, telling a House committee last month it was "a legal decision, not a law enforcement decision".
Next week, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to issue a "final enforcement decision" regarding the incident.
(Holder, on the other hand, has called the federal position on state marijuana laws a "law enforcement decision").. Leonhart criticized the administration for taking so long to decide what to do about states legalizing marijuana, saying there was "a lot of confusion in that 296 days while they were reviewing it and deciding how to proceed".
He said the office's position is that it "has never used race and never will use race to make any law enforcement decision".
Law enforcement decision makers are now recognizing the importance of using social networks in their investigations.
The Federal Communications Commission will likely continue to regulate broadband almost unabated, despite being instructed to vacate its broadband enforcement decision.
The government's housing watchdog agency took up their case as evidence of a violation of new anti-discrimination laws, and -- unbeknownst to the couple -- came to its first enforcement decision against Bank of America.
The Food Regulatory System FRSseparatestes policy, standards development, and implementation and enforcement decision making processes [ 23].
16 We acknowledge that an agency's enforcement decisions are informed by a host of factors, some bearing no relation to the agency's views regarding whether a violation has occurred.
