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6 Nov 2007, 10:53 am
Importantly, before Levin could issue his new torture memo based on his findings, he was fired by AG Alberto Gonzales and replaced by someone who wouldn't otherwise trouble the Administration with any reservations about the use of waterboarding. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 8:45 pm
This should be a red flag for anyone who cares at all about human rights, civil liberties, or simply saving his own skin.Operation Falcon was allegedly the brainchild of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his counterpart in the US Marshal's office, (Director) Ben Reyna. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 6:14 pm
Operation Falcon was allegedly the brainchild of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his counterpart in the US Marshal's office, (Director) Ben Reyna. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 1:32 am
At this point, Alberto Gonzales nevertheless insisted that Levin include in his December 30, 2004 opinion the footnote (No. 8) about how the legal analysis did not affect all previously approved techniques! [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 4:19 pm
In a key memo, Alberto Gonzales warned the president about future independent counsels that might choose to pursue "'unwarranted charges.'" During Bush II, there continued to be a "post-Watergate, post-Iran-Contra, post-Lewinsky legal culture in which independent counsels, inspectors general, and ethics monitors harass political officials for years after they leave office. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 12:59 pm
Horvath joins Google a little more than a year and a half after then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appointed her as the first ever DOJ privacy officer in February 2006 . [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 8:14 am
Daphne Eviatar The American Lawyer November 1, 2007 In his summer of discontent, there were few days of undiluted glory for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and July 17 was no exception. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 7:22 am
Blawgletter could hardly contain our enthusiasm when we heard about the nomination of Michael Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as U.S. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 8:06 pm
The operations directly involved over 960 agencies (state, local, and federal) and were the brainchild of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and US Marshal's Director Ben Reyna. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 3:17 am
When the DOJ refused to provide details of the cases its task force handled -- and even claimed that it couldn't color in the details underlying then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' recitation of victory stats at a July 17 press conference -- Corporate Counsel and ALM's researchers combed the public record and other sources for scraps of details about which cases the task force handled. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 3:44 pm
The letter is quite powerful given it is signed by the program's former critics who endured Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card's humanity-challenged Intensive Care Shakedown. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 3:19 pm
This sort of wordplay---using "present" to mean "future" but in a way that isn't at first obvious---almost makes me nostalgic for the purported memory lapses and bald-faced lies of Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 1:59 am
More importantly, perhaps, and as the Senate Intelligence Committee Report itself suggests, during the period in 2004 when Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith were threatening to resign because the NSA program was so patently unlawful, the certifications to the telcoms were signed not by the AG, or by the Acting AG, but by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 12:52 pm
After Alberto Gonzales's troubled tenure, we cannot send a signal that the next Attorney General in any way condones torture or believes that the President is unconstrained by law. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 11:29 am
Ken at Progress Now has a good post on the Mukasey-torture issue, and I thank him for reminding me about what I wrote in 2004 about the role of the Attorney General in the context of Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft. [read post]
27 Oct 2007, 12:13 am
Apparently, White House Counsel Fred Fielding has provided Senator Leahy with four previously undisclosed documents involving interrogation practices prior to the tenure of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 5:21 pm
Is he waiting for the expected scathing report from Justice Department inspector general about former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales? [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 10:23 am
LVRJ 10/26/07 What Lies Beneath: Alberto Gonzales' Legal Troubles May Just Be Beginning. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 7:54 am
"Tilting the Scales of Justice": The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, "Every time we take a look at the United States attorney scandal, more evidence emerges that Alberto Gonzales politicized the Justice Department to the point where it sometimes seems like a branch of the Republican National Committee. [read post]
21 Oct 2007, 1:24 pm
Attorney John McKay spoke at a bar association meeting Friday and said he thinks it's quite possible the Inspector General conducting the probe of the U.S. attorney firings will refer Alberto Gonzales and others for criminal prosecution, possibly as early as next month. [read post]