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7 Aug 2015, 6:49 am
” “It’s a very rare thing when Michael Mukasey, Greg Craig, Walter Dellinger, Larry Thompson, Jamie Gorelick, Seth Waxman and Peter Keisler agree that a court decision siding with federal prosecutors is wrong,” Mr. [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 6:41 pm
An amicus brief taking the view that the Supreme Court should grant cert was signed by, among others, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Peter Keisler. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 5:52 pm
The exaggeration is even greater than the earlier National Journal article about me and the death penalty.Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey is a stronger advocate in this fight than the article lets on. [read post]
15 Jul 2015, 10:02 pm
Bush’s Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned and Michael Mukasey was appointed and confirmed to that office. [read post]
19 May 2015, 4:36 pm
Last year, the Wall Street Journal began the foray with an op-ed by Former NSA Director General Mike Hayden and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey—key architects of many of the NSA's unlawful activities. [read post]
9 May 2015, 6:44 pm
I can't say I "know" Michael Mukasey exactly, but it's beyond comprehension that Judge Mukasey would have allowed, much less participated in, a display like this.The cost argument for the Smarter Sentencing Act was always so much tripe (since this Administration, like past ones, simply borrows to finance things it actually cares about), but putting tax dollars into gushing self-congratulation drives home the point like nothing else. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 5:07 am
I start with questions about what model of leadership she should adopt (Michael Mukasey). [read post]
18 Mar 2015, 4:42 pm
Michael B. [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 11:44 pm
19 Dec 2014, 6:28 am
Waterboarding, in particular–the specific subject of Michael Mukasey’s column–violated the prohibition on “cruel treatment” in Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions* (which at the time was also a violation of the War Crimes Act), the federal assault statute, and, yes, the Torture Act. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 1:07 pm
In the Wall Street Journal, Michael B. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 11:22 am
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has this op-ed in the WSJ:Considering that the now-abolished Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program adopted in the wake of 9/11 was intended to protect the U.S. from another deadly attack, it is stunning to hear those now criticizing the program issue the solemn reminder that "we are a nation of laws"--while devoting little attention to what was actually in those laws. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 7:06 am
Considering that the now-abolished Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program adopted in the wake of 9/11 was intended to protect the U.S. from another deadly attack, it is stunning to hear those now criticizing the program issue the solemn reminder that “we are a nation of laws”—while devoting little attention to what was actually in those laws. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 6:35 am
You don't hear it from Michael Mukasey, perhaps the leading Republican thinker on sentencing issues (having been, for one thing, a sentencing judge for 18 years).And there's one other, very instructive place you're not hearing it from: Not one of the nine newly elected Republican Senators campaigned on a platform of lowering sentences, to save money or for any other reason. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 2:30 pm
Michael B. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 11:05 am
” This is a similar argument that was advanced by Michael Hayden (former director of the CIA and the NSA) and Michael Mukasey (former attorney general) in an op-ed published on Monday in advance of the vote. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 7:38 am
That's not terribly surprising since practically any attempt to reform, revise, and/or reign in US domestic surveillance in recent years has been met with a tirade of sensational fearmongering, threat inflation (or conflation), and worst-case adverse possibilities being presented as most-likely adverse probabilities by surveillance apologists --- a joint op-ed this week by former NSA Director Michael Hayden and Attorney General Michael Mukasey is one such… [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 12:31 pm
Johnsen, a Michael Hastings Fellow, describes the harrowing account of how he narrowly escaped kidnapping in Yemen. [read post]
16 Nov 2014, 7:50 pm
It was an excellent group featuring John Malcolm of the Heritage Foundation and Marc Levin from Right on Crime, and -- expressing a more skeptical view -- Judge and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and yours truly. [read post]
1 Nov 2014, 11:36 am
Speakers will include Justices Scalia and Alito, Senators Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former ACLU head Nadine Strossen, Carly Fiorina, and former BB&T Corp. head John Allison (now head of Cato). [read post]
