Archive for the 'Judge Mukasey' Category
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 12, 2008; A02
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence and even ordinary criminal cases.
The overhaul, the most […]
Posted in FBI, Constitution, Bush, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey |
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago
NEW YORK - No criminal prosecutions are planned for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
Mukasey used his sharpest words yet […]
Posted in Cong-SENATE, Charles Schumer, Department of Justice, Karl Marx, Judge Mukasey, Diane Feinstein |
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
baltimoresun.com
Bush stance likened to Nixon’s
Judiciary Committee lawyers urge judge to make White House answer subpoenas
Associated Press
April 11, 2008
WASHINGTON President Bush’s refusal to let two confidants provide information to Congress about fired federal prosecutors represents the most expansive view of executive privilege since Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee told a federal judge yesterday.
Lawyers for the Democratic-led […]
Posted in Congress, Bush, Charles Schumer, Department of Justice, Richard Nixon, Judge Mukasey, Diane Feinstein |
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Mukasey refuses probe of Bush aides
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer the House’s contempt citations against two of President Bush’s top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers committed no crime.
As […]
Posted in Constitution, Cong-HOUSE, Bolton, Nancy Pelosi, Harriet Miers, Judge Mukasey |
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Sadly, Feinstein and Schumer were blinded by the light…
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…or was it the nifty lapel flag?
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By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 8, 2008; Page A04
The attorney general yesterday rejected growing congressional calls for a criminal investigation of the CIA’s use of simulated drownings to extract information from its detainees, as Vice President Cheney called […]
Posted in administration, Torture, Charles Schumer, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey, Diane Feinstein |
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Mukasey Rejects Call for CIA Tape Details
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 14, 2007; 2:27 PM
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department’s inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, saying that providing such information would make it appear that the department was “subject to […]
Posted in Torture, CIA, Charles Schumer, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey, Diane Feinstein |
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
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Special Comment:
On waterboarding and torture
Nov. 5: Keith Olbermann comments on Pres. Bush and Michael Mukasey’s response to allegations of waterboarding in the Bush administration. Why was an Acting Assistant Attorney General forced out – just because he had the guts to do what Pres. Bush couldn’t?
Posted in Bush, Torture, Terrorism, Cong-SENATE, Judge Mukasey |
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Chuck has a very short memory so he’ll trust Mukasey to do the right thing. Meanwhile, Diane would probably not be a senator had it not been for someone purchasing a package of Twinkies in November, 1978.
November 3, 2007
New York Times
Justice Nominee Gets 2 Key Votes From Democrats
By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON, Nov. […]
Posted in Democrats, Cong-SENATE, Charles Schumer, Alito, 1920s, John Roberts, Judge Mukasey, Diane Feinstein |
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Kennedy turns against Mukasey
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - President Bush, seeking Thursday to salvage the embattled nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, defended the former judge’s refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding as illegal torture. But the nomination suffered another setback in the Senate.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., […]
Posted in administration, Bush, Torture, Ted Kennedy, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey |
Friday, October 19th, 2007
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Images: (Donnie Brasco) via homepage.calypso.net; (Judge Mukasey) via ABCNews (mook) Scorsese Mean Streets
Posted in Movies, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey |
