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Washington Post: Karl Rove Mischaracterized His Role in Attorney Firings
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyWhen the dust settled after the Bush administration's firing of U.S. attorneys in 2006 that resulted eventually in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigning, Karl Rove painted his own role as a middleman who just passed messages along. Now, Rove is delivering testimony on the firings behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, after a protracted legal battle over whether he would need to testify at all. And The Washington Post reports that Rove's role was greater than he previously suggested, according to emails it obtained and interviews with key participants. Says the Post:In an ...
Alberto Gonzales to 'Set Record Straight' in New Book
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyIn an interview with The Wall Street Journal, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took umbrage with the widespread public disapproval of his performance in office. "What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong," Gonzales asked, "that deserves this kind of response to my service?" He went on to say, "[I] am portrayed as the one who is evil in formulating policies that people disagree with. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror." Gonzales reserved his harshest criticism for James Comey, the man who was acting Attorney General when Gonzales, ...
Cheney/Gonzales Prosecutor Loses It In Court
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyChris Weber reported last week on indictments of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that were handed down by a south Texas grand jury. I'm no legal expert, but the whole thing sounds like a bit of a reach to me, and has about the same chance of success as my attempt to ground John McCain for his sex education ad.Still, with not much to talk about these days, my Unusable Signal co-host, Caleb Howe, described for me, Saturday night, how the scene in the Texas courtroom turned surreal on Friday. Willacy County District attorney Juan Angel Guerra, he said, went ...
No Charges For Gonzales in Attorneys Purge
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThe Washington Post reports that Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine will not refer former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to a federal grand jury for his role in the U.S. Attorneys purge. A report, written by another official in the department, however, calls for a prosecutor to investigate the firings. According to report, current Attorney General Michael Mukasey will name a prosecutor from within the department. The controversy over the firings began in December of 2006, when eight U.S. attorneys were fired. Though firing U.S. Attorneys is the prerogative of the President, ...
Details of Gonzales Hospital Visit Emerge
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyThings just keep getting worse for former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Murray Waas of The Atlantic has two stories out today about the details of the infamous visit Gonzales, serving as White House counsel at the time, and former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card made to the hospital room of ailing then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in March of 2004. In one of the stories, Waas reports that Gonzales' former department launched an investigation into whether notes Gonzales kept were faked in order to create, as Waas puts it, "a rationale for reauthorizing his warrantless eavesdropping ...
No 'Wackos' Allowed
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyIf you're considered a "wacko," a "wack job," or a liberal, the Justice Department in 2006 likely had no interest in you working at the agency.The Justice Department's inspector general today released a report that found that the DOJ, under President Bush, inappropriately injected politics into hiring programs. Problems were found in hiring practices during 2002 - when John Ashcroft was attorney general - and in 2006, under Alberto Gonzales. 2006 was apparently full of many more flagrant violations of the law and department policy. "We found that in 2006 the Screening Committee inappropriately ...
Rove Subpoenaed
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers today issued a subpoena to the man dubbed "Bush's brain" about the politicization of the Department of Justice in the Bush administration.That "brain" would be none other than former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. Rove's lawyer sent a letter to the congressional committee yesterday saying his client wouldn't testify voluntarily. "Contrary to your letter of May 14, 2008, I do not misunderstand either the Committee's procedures or the scope of its interest in Mr. Rove; nor, in light of your reported remarks about the need for ...
Gonzales' Resume Just Isn't Working
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyFormer Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is also feeling the pinch of quasi-unemployment these days. Lawyers and his associates inside the Beltway tell The New York Times that Gonzales, who was forced to resign last year amid the dismissed attorneys scandal, hasn't been able to get any law firms to bite on his resume. Gonzales' experience should be enough for firms to be chomping at the bit. We've all heard his personal story - the son of poor Mexican immigrants makes his way through the Texas public school system, then goes on to Rice University and Harvard Law School. He has won numerous ...
ABA Names Gonzales 'Lawyer of the Year'
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyYeah, I saw that on MSNBC this morning and said, "Whaaat??". Has the American Bar Association lost it's collective mind? I think even the most conservative among us would be less than thrilled that the controversial ex-Attorney General is up for a major award. But digging a little further I found a that on its face this news is not so scary after all. Apparently this award is granted for the lawyers that make the most news - it doesn't have to be all good. From the AP report: ...
Alberto Gonzales Passes the Hat
By Jonathan Berr - Politics DailyAttention Republicans, neo-cons and other supporters of President George W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales, the most incompetent attorney general in history, needs your money.Faced with mounting legal bills because of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into whether he committed perjury or improperly tampered with a congressional witness, friends of the former attorney general have set up a legal defense fund, according to the Washington Post. "In the hyper-politicized atmosphere that has descended on Washington, an innocent man cannot simply trust that the truth will out," wrote Gonzales pal ...
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