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25 Jun 2008, 8:13 am by Mark Sorkin
The trend continued until 2006, when it accelerated under then-AG Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 7:41 am
"Takeover" is a structured as a narrative, with scenes and characters, and it tells the stories of key figures such as David Addington, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, Jack Goldsmith, Jim Haynes, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and others. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:57 am
It puts Alberto Gonzales in charge of making determinations that will increase or decrease the Administration's power to engage in surveillance. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 11:27 am
  But the government argues that even if the statements from McConnell, and related ones from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and members of Congress, establish the existence of such a program, the case couldn't go on without getting into very sensitive intelligence matters. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 4:09 am
We already know from the precedents regarding Alberto Gonzales' recommendations about executions to then-Governor George Bush that these documents are public records, so expect to see this information become public down the line, either when the AG rules or after the Governor appeals the AG decision to a district court.Finally, perhaps half a dozen readers have emailed me links to this post by Glen Smith at Dog Canyon claiming Gov. [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 5:56 am
Attorneys targeted by Karl Rove/Alberto Gonzales/Harriet Myers.What is Ms. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 6:35 pm
According to the interim report, when the Bush Administration took office, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales issued a staff memorandum stating that electronic mail related to official business counted as part of the Presidential record and that, should e-mail received on a personal account include information that would qualify as a Presidential record, the staff member had the duty to preserve that record by forwarding it to the White House e-mail account or by printing it. … [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 12:27 pm
.' But as former White House General Counsel Alberto Gonzales publicly admitted in December 2005, that rule secretly went out the window after 9/11 when the President ordered the NSA to point its surveillance equipment at Americans. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 8:08 am by gstasiewicz
” Among the highlights from these documents obtained by Judicial Watch: The NSC Summary of Conclusions includes a detailed list of Bush administration officials who attended the June 19, 2003 meeting, including: Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who chaired the meeting; Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Former Attorney General John Ashcroft; Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; and White House Counsel Alberto… [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 10:42 pm
Gonzales more power while seriously circumscribing the role of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 11:59 am by JB
Apparently, President Obama has gone Attorney General Alberto Gonzales one better. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 2:16 pm
 Once they have that list of targets, say 1,000 or so, Indeed in the first press briefing on the program in December 2005, then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and NSA chief Michael Hayden, Gonzales acknowledged that the target of the surveillance could be an American: To the extent that there is a moderate and heavy communication involving an American citizen, it would be a communication where the other end of the call is outside the United States and… [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]
14 Aug 2018, 8:40 am by Amy Howe
At the beginning of the Bush administration, the “managing partner” was Alberto Gonzales, a former Texas judge; an early email appeared to instruct White House lawyers not to schedule meetings with Gonzales over lunch because “Al” “doesn’t do lunch. [read post]
8 Feb 2014, 6:55 am by Yishai Schwartz
Wells linked to a new law review article, “Drones: the Power to Kill,” by Bush-era Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and to some responses the article has generated. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 6:08 pm
As others have noted, the notes back up Mueller and Comey's account of then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales' and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card's attempt to get the ailing Ashcroft to overrule Comey and give a legal blessing to the secret, warrantless intelligence activities. [read post]
17 May 2007, 5:24 pm
Doped up on pain killers prior to his gallbladder surgery, and barely coherent, we learned that former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, with lights and sirens blazing on his motorcade, and FBI Director Robert Muller at his side, raced to the hospital to head off Bush's Chief Of Staff Andrew Card, and Alberto Gonzales- in his then role as counsel to the President. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 8:34 pm
"It was previously reported that Alberto Gonzales insisted on the inclusion of that footnote. [read post]