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8 Sep 2006, 2:43 am
A group of former senior Department of Justice officials, including former Attorney Generals Griffin Bell and Dick Thornburgh, and former Solicitor Generals Ted Olson, Ken Starr, and Seth Waxman, sent another letter (available below) to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asking... [read post]
6 Sep 2006, 8:20 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] Tuesday identified increasing financial costs in the war on terrorism as the reason that additional federal funding for local and state law enforcement is not forthcoming. [read post]
5 Sep 2006, 1:11 pm
A few months ago, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that he did not know if his grandparents came from Mexico to the United States legally or illegally, but that his family's story is the "American dream. [read post]
29 Aug 2006, 4:56 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official website] said during a one-day visit to Baghdad [press release] Tuesday that enforcement of the rule of law is essential to Iraq's future, but stressed that it was up to the country's leaders and people to determine what kind of law that would be. [read post]
23 Aug 2006, 9:15 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] has said that he will divert additional resources [prepared remarks] to New Orleans to address the city's high crime rates following the Hurricane Katrina disaster [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
21 Aug 2006, 2:01 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] on Monday called on all states to standardize their criminal statutes dealing with sexual predators during a speech [text] given at the 18th Annual Crimes Against Children Conference [PDF materials] in Dallas. [read post]
17 Aug 2006, 1:42 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] on Wednesday praised new British anti-terrorism laws [UK Home Office materials] that helped thwart a terror plot [JURIST report] to explode jetliners traveling over the Atlantic Ocean, saying that the provision that allows British authorities to detain terror suspects for up to 28-days without charge [JURIST report] is a useful [read post]
15 Aug 2006, 1:00 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official website] on Monday directed the US Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy and Office of Legal Counsel to conduct a comparative review of American and British anti-terrorism laws [Home Office materials]. [read post]
9 Aug 2006, 9:19 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official website] on Wednesday announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] will implement new rules to improve the performance of federal immigration courts [DOJ listing] and the Board of Immigration Appeals [DOJ backgrounder]. [read post]
3 Aug 2006, 3:40 am
[JURIST] Following up on previous consultations with Republican lawmakers [JURIST report], US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] said on Capitol Hill Wednesday that Congress should clarify the definition of war crimes prohibited by Common Article 3 [text] of the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials], suggesting that "a definite and clear list of offenses serious enough to be [read post]
2 Aug 2006, 2:18 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] confirmed before a Senate panel Wednesday that the Bush administration is drafting legislation [JURIST report] authorizing military commissions [JURIST news archive] for terror detainees that will allow hearsay evidence and coerced testimony to be admitted against terrorism suspects, limit their rights against pretrial [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 10:54 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] pressed Republican lawmakers last week for a bill that would "shield" US soldiers from potential prosecution in US federal courts over violations of the 1996 War Crimes Act [text], according to a report in Friday's Washington Post. [read post]
19 Jul 2006, 1:01 am
[JURIST] Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] on Tuesday, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] urged Congress to authorize military commissions [JURIST news archive] to try terror detainees following the US Supreme Court's decision last month in Hamdan v. [read post]
18 Jul 2006, 4:45 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] told the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] Tuesday that President Bush personally put an end to an internal Justice Department investigation into the role DOJ lawyers played in designing the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Jun 2006, 4:11 am
[JURIST] US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website] has threatened to subpoena administration documents on its warrantless domestic spying program [JURIST news archive] if US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales does not respond to Specter's requests to answer questions on domestic spying and a host of other issues, including presidential signing statements and [read post]
7 Jun 2006, 1:02 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] called the May FBI raid of the congressional office [JURIST report] of Rep. [read post]
29 May 2006, 7:55 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] and FBI Director Robert Mueller [official profile] held a private meeting with representatives from major internet service providers late last week urging them to retain customer internet activities to combat child pornography. [read post]
27 May 2006, 10:09 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and FBI Director Robert Mueller [official profiles] were among a host of other government officials and prosecutors at the US Department of Justice [official website] who said they would resign if the White House forced them to hand over information gathered during the FBI office search [JURIST report] of US Rep. [read post]
24 May 2006, 10:02 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] has said the government does not need court approval to obtain domestic telephone records because they are not protected by the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment [text] according to the Supreme Court's 1979 decision in Smith v. [read post]
22 May 2006, 2:52 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] said Sunday that the US does not need to make English the "national language" and that a Senate move to add English language amendments to an immigration reform proposal [JURIST news archive] was symbolic. [read post]
