The plan was unveiled by US Attorney General Eric Holder and by Victoria Espinel, the administration's Intellectual Property Enforcement Co-ordinator.
Mr Padilla is being held on the grounds that he is, as the US Attorney General put it, an "enemy combatant".
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark founded the International Action Center.
Despite the US not having made an extradition request, US Attorney General Eric Holder has previously said American officials were pursuing a "very serious criminal investigation" into the matter.
After the hearing, one of his lawyers, James Brosnahan, accused US Attorney General John Ashcroft of using "inappropriate" language and taking out his frustrations about terrorism on Mr Walker Lindh.
Her words were echoed by US Attorney General Eric Holder, who said "threats to our children continue to grow and evolve" and "no single nation will be able to address these challenges".
"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of the Associated Press and its reporters, " Mr Pruitt wrote in a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder.
Just last week US Attorney General Eric Holder gave his reasons for the lack of prosecution saying the hesitation to go after big banks is partially out of concern that doing so could hurt the economy.
"This resolution of criminal allegations and civil claims against Transocean brings us one significant step closer to justice for the human, environmental and economic devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, " said US Attorney General Eric Holder.
"Viktor Bout has been indicted in the United States, but his alleged arms trafficking activity and support of armed conflicts in Africa has been a cause of concern around the world, " said US Attorney General Holder in a statement.
"Today's guilty plea and sentencing represent a significant step forward in the Justice Department's ongoing efforts to seek justice on behalf of those affected by one of the worst environmental disasters in American history, " said US Attorney General Eric Holder.
But the US Attorney-General Janet Reno has previously turned down recommendations to investigate the vice president.
Commenting on what he described as the biggest investigation ever conducted by the Justice Department, the US attorney-general said between three and six individuals were involved in the hijacking of each plane.
That issue of the "collateral consequences" from bank spanking was cited by US Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer when explaining why the Department of Justice had chosen not to "fully prosecute" HSBC for its money laundering and sanctions breaching offences - and had instead put the bank on probation with a deferred prosecution agreement.
"I wish the president had sent us a nomination for attorney general that would unite us rather than divide us, but that did not happen, " Leahy told the Senate.
And they can't be prosecuting crimes, they can't represent us, if the attorney general has a cloud over him.
And tell us more about what the attorney general announced today.
Mr. DAVIDSON: We believe the marriages are still valid, and the California attorney general agrees with us.
The attorney general said the US Congress had the previous October granted President Bush the power to go to war with Iraq.
In June, a US House of Representatives committee found Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents related to the operation.
BBC: Mexican arrested over US agent 'Fast and Furious' murder
Later that evening, the deputy attorney general telephoned and reported that the attorney general had tentatively decided to assign the matter to us.
In a letter to Sen Paul on 4 March, Attorney General Eric Holder said the US government "had not carried out drone strikes in the United States and had no intention of doing so".
After we sued, the case was reassigned to a deputy attorney general, a man who struck us as genial but not formidable.
The legal fraternity decided to remind us of the legacy of retired Supreme Court president and former attorney general Aharon Barak.
"It isn't appropriate for us to attend an off-the-record meeting with the attorney general, " executive editor Jill Abramson said in a statement.
"Fortunately we have strong evidence that will lead us to those responsible for this reprehensible act, " Guerrero state Attorney-General Marta Garzon told Mexican radio.
We contacted Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder within 48 hours after Ms. Tripp provided us information.
He was state attorney general from 1991 to 1995 and made unsuccessful bids for the US Senate and the Illinois governorship, including in 2002, when he lost in the Democratic primary to Mr Blagojevich.
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