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A must-read interview with David Iglesias
1:47 AM Sun, Jul 13, 2008
Tod Robberson
December 6, 2006, the Bush administration’s Justice Department carried out an unprecedented decision to fire seven U.S. attorneys - all Republicans - in a single day. It was originally portrayed as a performance-related issue in which the attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, was exercising the […]
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Dick waits impatiently to feed.
(Original AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
Cheney blocked official’s promotion
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Vice President
Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a Justice Department official involved in a bedside standoff over President Bush’s eavesdropping program, a Senate committee learned Wednesday.
In a written account, former Deputy […]
Bush’s Monica Problem: The Gonzales Mess
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Stephanie Kuykendal for Newsweek
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Gonzales, the president’s lawyer and Texas buddy, is twisting slowly in the wind, facing a vote of no confidence from the Senate.
By Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas
Newsweek
June 4, 2007 issue - The United States Department of Justice has not always been above politics. John F. Kennedy, after […]
Just because the Bush administration employs the theories and practices of the Simpson’s Itchy ‘n Scratchy does not mean it is not dangerous.
These are mere excerpts from a column worth your time.
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The Gonzalez-Card caper: Why the Bush administration can not oversee itself
By Eric Mink
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Wednesday, May. 23 2007
It was crude and almost ludicrous: […]
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Jim Comey tells of Alberto Gonzales’s bedside manner. Jim Comey tells of Alberto Gonzales’s bedside manner.Photo Credit: By Susan Walsh — Associated Press
Ashcroft and the Night Visitors
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, May 16, 2007; Page A02
As if Attorney General Alberto Gonzales didn’t have enough trouble, now comes word that, before coming to the Justice Department, Gonzales preyed […]
Tony may have said “No comment.”
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Snow: Ashcroft Wasn’t That Ill, It Wasn’t Like ‘His Brain Didn’t Work’
In March 2004, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and then-chief of staff Andrew Card attempted to go around acting Attorney General James Comey and get John Ashcroft, who was debilitated with pancreatitis, to sign off on an extension […]
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, left, talks with artist John Howard Sanden, right, after the unveiling ceremony of Ashcroft’s official portrait at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Ashcroft, a former governor of Missouri and a U.S. senator, served as President George W. Bush’s attorney general from February 2001 to February 2005. […]
The Associated Press wrote yesterday that a State Department spokesman confirmed the meetings with Condi who had claimed she would have remembered such an important threat had it been given. According to the story, the spokesman said she had told him to forward the report to Secretary of Defense Rumnsfeld and then Attorney General Ashcroft […]