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Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he wishes he could "do some things over" from his years with the Bush administration, citing a memo he wrote that human rights groups contended led to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.
A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the southern Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.
A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra asked Presiding Judge Manuel Banales to recuse himself from the case, which alleges abuse at federally run prisons.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense former federal judge who took over the Justice Department after Alberto Gonzales resigned in disgrace, collapsed during a speech Thursday night and was rushed to a hospital after losing consciousness.
A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.
Democratic lawmakers on Friday questioned the independence of a veteran federal prosecutor named to investigate whether laws were broken in the partisan political firings of U.S. attorneys.
The Justice Department refused to prosecute former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for improperly — and possibly illegally — storing in his office and home classified information about two of the Bush administration's most sensitive counterterrorism efforts.
A look at other internal reports released this year taking former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his top aides to task for mismanagement and political meddling at the Justice Department.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mishandled highly classified notes about a secret counterterror program, says a memo by his legal team, which touches on one of the most contentious episodes of high-level infighting in the Bush administration's war on terror.
Former Justice Department officials broke the law by letting Bush administration politics dictate the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, according to an internal investigation released Monday.
The Justice Department is considering launching a grand jury investigation into whether one of its former leaders misled Congress about playing politics with civil rights issues, a government official said Monday.
In a Feb. 29 story and a March 1 news analysis about Democrats seeking contempt charges against two of President Bush's top aides, The Associated Press erroneously reported that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had told Congress he would not refer contempt citations to a prosecutor.
Negative news coverage may have cost former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales his job, but it won him a dubious honor Wednesday from a magazine published by the American Bar Association: Lawyer of the Year.
As he steps out on a speech-giving tour at college campuses, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may soon wish he was still talking to hostile congressional committees.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endured screams of "criminal" and "liar" during a speech at the University of Florida on Monday evening.
Retired federal judge Michael Mukasey was sworn in Friday as the nation's 81st attorney general, filling a vacancy left when Alberto Gonzales resigned amid questions about his credibility.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer to represent him in investigations of mismanagement of the Justice Department. George Terwilliger, a white-collar crime defense attorney and the second-ranking Justice official in the early 1990s, was on the White House's short list last month to replace Gonzales.
Senate and House Democrats demanded Thursday to see two secret memos that reportedly authorize painful interrogation tactics against terror suspects — despite the Bush administration's insistence that it has not violated U.S. anti-torture laws.
Former federal judge Michael Mukasey, picked by President Bush to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, appears unlikely to face a bruising confirmation battle in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Resigning Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left the scandal-scarred Justice Department on Friday, declaring himself hopeful about its mission of ferreting out crime and defending the truth.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation Monday after months of draining controversy drew expressions of relief from Republicans and a vow from Democrats to pursue their investigation into fired federal prosecutors.
Quotes Monday on the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales conceded on Wednesday that he used confusing language in describing national security efforts in recent Senate testimony.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales must quickly clarify apparent contradictions in his testimony about warrantless spying or risk a possible perjury investigation, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday.
The White House labored on Friday to explain how apparently dueling testimony from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller actually was not at odds.
Gonzales Evades Criminal Prosecution for Misleading Congress on NSA spyingThe Justice Department has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program.
Gonzales defends Holder's decision on CIAFormer U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on Tuesday defended the decision of his current successor, Eric H. Holder Jr., to investigate alleged prisoner abuse by CIA interrogators over President Obama's desire to look forward.
Testimony Links Rove, Bush to Political Firing of US Attorneys - The Boston GlobeThousands of pages of internal e-mails and once-secret congressional testimony showed yesterday that Karl Rove and other senior aides in the Bush White House played an earlier and more active role than was previously known in the 2006 firings of a number of US attorneys.Aides to …
Texas Tech Faculty Circulate Petition Protesting Alberto GonzalesEarlier this month, Texas Tech announced that it had offered former Bush attorney general Alberto Gonzales a position to teach political science during the upcoming fall semester.
Texas Tech profs oppose hiring of Bush's A-G GonzalesThe former attorney-general under President George W. Bush will soon be teaching "Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch" at Texas Tech -- a job for which, at least 40 of the school's professors say, Gonzales is profoundly unqualified.
Nobody Expected the Spanish Prosecution of the 'Bush Six'EXCERPT: Will former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other senior Bush administration officials end up in jail for crafting the policies that led to the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo? As of yet, no government prosecutor is targeting them in the United States.
Did Alberto Gonzales Lie to Congress over Torture?excerpt: ""Senator, that I don't recall remembering." With those six words uttered during the furor over his purge of U.S. prosecutors, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales likely etched his epitaph.
James Mitchell Asked, 'Please Can I Torture Abu Zubaydah?'; Did Alberto Gonzales Say Yes?By Spencer Ackerman 5/20/09 5:54 PM
The 13 people who made torture possible "...13 key people in the Bush administration cannot claim they relied on the memos from the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel. Some of the 13 manipulated the federal bureaucracy and the legal process to "preauthorize" torture in the days after 9/11.
Gonzales says US should be open to torturing againIn an interview posted Monday, former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that because use of torture "may be necessary" in the future, the Obama administration erred in disclosing the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation" techniques.
Gonzales says US should be open to torturing againIn an interview posted Monday, former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that because use of torture "may be necessary" in the future, the Obama administration erred in disclosing the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation" techniques...
Interrogation Debate Sharply Divided Bush White HouseThe proclamation that President George W. Bush issued on June 26, 2003, to mark the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture seemed innocuous, one of dozens of high-minded statements published and duly ignored each year.
SCANDALS - The Jane Harman, Nancy Pelosi, AIPAC, Alberto Gonzales, Power Ranger Spy Plot and the Biden BoysWASHINGTON, DC - In January, I wrote an Austrian economic proof that the Obama stimulus plan would fail, I noted that one of the many symptoms would be inevitable, unstoppable corruption.
This article is not going to discuss the morality of torture. Why? Because most of the people that support the use of torture in extracting humint (human intelligence) that even suspect someone of opposing torture on moral grounds reacts thusly:
It is pretty straightforward... President Bush, Vice President Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales were all intimately involved in the decisionmaking process to go ahead with what amounts to torture.
EDITORIAL: Power, humiliation and torture In the wake of 9/11, no phrase more succinctly projected the upwelling of popular jingoism across the United States than the words "Power of Pride."
Larisa Alexandrovna: Hastert informed of Harman investigation?So former House speaker Denny Hastert was informed of the investigation into Harman? I find this amazing really. This man has allegedly sold classified information to the American Turkish Council and allegedly taken briefcases full of cash for votes.
Watchdog Demands Harman Ethics ProbeIs an ethics committee investigation in Rep Jane Harman's future? DC-based watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics In Washington certainly thinks one is warranted, and just faxed faxed a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) requesting an investigation …
Everyone go read the full article here. Some clippings:
Obama Administration Moves to Protect Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, AT&T et al. on Illegal NSA WiretappingPresident Barack Obama invoked "state secrets" to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency's warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed.
Scott Horton: The Accountability ImperativeA little more than one year ago, we found ourselves in the midst of a presidential election campaign that seemed almost interminable. In one of the Republican primary debates, Senator John McCain spoke some words that stood out then and still reverberate today.
Spain Looks To Prosecute Bush Officials - CBS News(AP) A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the case said Saturday.
Ashcroft: Some forms of waterboarding might be legalIs it any surprised that a man who spends free time making sculptures out of barbed wire still does not believe his approval of torturing prisoners was wrong?
Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers When John C. Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer, was selected by President George W. Bush in May 2004 to join a government board charged with releasing historical Nazi and Japanese war crimes records, trouble quickly followed...
George W. Bush's Disposable Constitution (Harper's Magazine Article & Rachel Maddow Video)Yesterday the Obama Administration released a series of nine previously secret legal opinions crafted by the Office of Legal Counsel to enhance the presidential powers of George W. Bush.
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