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8 May 2007, 9:44 pm
[T]his weekend’s story in the Washington Post, based on testimony by Alberto Gonzales’s former deputy Kyle Sampson, suggests that McKay’s problems may have begun with his determination to keep on pushing to find Tom Wales’s killer. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 1:45 pm
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the 22-point plan in August 2006, in the wake of mounting complaints by federal appellate judges about the lack of quality in immigration judging and media accounts of abusive judges who faced little or no discipline. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 8:20 am
The attorney general, regardless of who holds that title (Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation Monday), is hardly an unbiased judge concerning the death penalty. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 1:55 pm by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
Vice President Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales backed Judge Mike Luttig. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 10:28 am
Last month, The New York Times reported that was the case in 2004 when the Bush administration publicly declared torture "abhorrent" and then a few months later, after the installation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, issued two secret memos which authorized "an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used" by the CIA. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 11:30 am
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Third District Representative Walter B. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 5:04 am
Ashcroft's successor, Alberto Gonzales, authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty in 81 out of 423 possible cases, for a 19 percent approval rate. [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 10:42 pm
" Even if Alberto Gonzales and other DOJ witnesses to date hadn't been so evasive and inconsistent in their testimony, and if White House emails hadn't disappeared, the "fishing expedition" charge would still ring hollow. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 12:01 am
Attorney Alberto Gonzales hardly came as a shock, it was an interesting twist to learn that an affiliation with a a few well-respected local legal groups may have actually hindered applicants' chances of being interns or getting into the honors program by getting them red flagged as "liberals. [read post]
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]
16 Feb 2011, 11:00 pm by Kim Zetter
” Photo: Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, sitting, with left to right: Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Clay Sell, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, State Department Deputy Secretary John Negroponte, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Department of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff. [read post]
27 Oct 2009, 5:57 am
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in a congressional probe into the firing of eight federal prosecutors. [read post]
5 Jun 2016, 10:07 am by Walter Olson
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales kinda-sorta defends the propriety of litigants’ blasting judges, though in a left-handed way (“if I were a litigant who was concerned about the judge’s impartiality, I certainly would not deal with it in a public manner as Trump has, because it demeans the integrity of the judicial office and thus potentially undermines the independence of the judiciary, especially coming from a man who could be president by this time next year. [read post]
21 Nov 2013, 4:30 pm by Lauren Bateman
So far as this post goes, that will mean time-traveling back to two historical documents: first, 2005 congressional testimony by then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and then-FBI Director Robert Mueller III, regarding the renewal of the government’s surveillance authorities; and second, to a 2006 legal filing, submitted under Gonzales’ name to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (“FISC”). [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 6:33 am by David Markus
Part of his speech from CNN:As in his speech when he took office six years ago, Holder laid claim to helping restore the Justice Department's reputation, a tacit shot at the Bush administration and the political scandal that hung over former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales after the firings of U.S. attorneys.Holder said he was proud of the department's work, which he said was done "free of politicization. [read post]
As the Committee for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has documented at length, various Bush White House officials used Republican National Committee accounts to communicate with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in what would become the scandal over the hiring and firing of United States attorneys that the Department of Justice later found to be the inappropriately politicized. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 6:22 pm
Eight US attorneys were dismissed by Alberto Gonzales on prodding from Karl Rove. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 1:25 pm by Stewart Baker
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, for example, rejected parts of the Geneva Conventions as “quaint. [read post]