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9 Sep 2007, 7:51 pm
Jack Goldsmith, former head of the Office of Legal Counsel, US Justice Department: From YouTube: "In these two excerpts from Bill Moyers Journal, Jack Goldsmith, former head the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department, gives an insider's view of advising the President on the limits of executive power during the war on terror.In the second excerpt, Goldsmith recounts what he calls "the most amazing scene I'd ever witnessed"-the night then White… [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 11:57 pm
Civil libertarians spent years castigating Attorney General John Ashcroft for covering up Lady Justice's bare breasts and describing critics of the Patriot Act as "scaring freedom-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty. [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 1:44 pm
Comey, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Lockheed Martin and former Deputy Attorney General, whose recent congressional testimony about a meeting in John Ashcroft's hospital room set off shock waves in Washington. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 9:17 am
“All of a sudden, energy and color came into his face, and he said that he didn’t appreciate them coming to visit him under those circumstances, that he had concerns about the matter they were asking about and that, in any event, he wasn’t the attorney general at the moment; Jim Comey was. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 9:00 am
Clement, 41, has worked for former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Justice Antonin Scalia, stalwarts of the right in American politics and law. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 9:25 pm
Rumsfeld, it names Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lowell Jacoby, among others, who "personally ordered and/or approved Mr. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 6:08 pm
The FBI's Mueller joined with then-Attorney General John Ashcroft and his deputy James Comey in threatening to resign unless the program was changed. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 3:05 pm
Comey, the former deputy attorney general, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about it in May. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 12:27 pm
[JURIST] Personal notes [PDF text] by FBI Director Robert Mueller released Thursday reveal that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] was "feeble, barely articulate, [and] clearly stressed" when current Attorney General and then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales confronted him in his hospital room in March 2004 to obtain reauthorization of the warrantless domestic [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 1:54 pm
" Then, earlier this year, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey directly contradicted that testimony. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 12:11 am
"Perhaps the pre-3/04 data mining that OLC had approved -- and that Gonzales and Card might have been imploring the ailing Ashcroft to continue approving -- would have violated this funding prohibition. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 12:09 am
Attorney General ASHCROFT. [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 5:09 pm
The confrontation in 2004 led to a showdown in the hospital room of then Attorney General John Ashcroft, where Mr. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 1:59 am
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07/26/2007
Letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller from House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (PDF 22 KB) Letter requests notes Mueller testified he wrote after a 2004 meeting in former Attorney General John Ashcroft's hopsital room about the NSA wiretapping program 07/26/2007
Letter to FDA Commissioner… [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 3:19 pm
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress Thursday that the Intensive Care Showdown at then-Attorney General John Ashcroft's bedside did involve the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program and that he shared Justice Department officials' reservations about the program, confirming former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's damning testimony and increasing… [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 8:48 am
FBI director Robert Mueller offered testimony before the House yesterday that sharply conflicted with AG Gonzales's testimony about that crazy 2004 confrontation in former AG John Ashcroft’s hospital room. [read post]
25 Jul 2007, 1:24 am
Gonzales Denies Pressuring AG Ashcroft on Intelligence-Gathering Issue
The Associated Press
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied that he and former White House chief of staff Andy Card tried to exploit then-AG John Ashcroft's frail condition by pressuring him to recertify President Bush's intelligence-gathering program during a 2004 hospital visit. [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 9:46 pm
The pace of overrulings picked up under Gonzales's predecessor, Attorney General John D. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 8:57 pm
The pace of overrulings picked up under Gonzales's predecessor, Attorney General John D. [read post]
21 Jun 2007, 4:07 pm
Consider this: The administration was sharply divided over the legality of President Bush's most controversial eavesdropping policies, a congressman quoted former Attorney General John Ashcroft as telling a House panel Thursday. [read post]
