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Alberto Gonzales
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DEMOCRATS: INVESTIGATE ALBERTO GONZALES FOR LYING UNDER OATH
Senate Democrats have called for a special prosecutor to look into allegations that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied to Congress while testifying about the U.S. attorney firings and the terror surveillance program. Sen. Charles Schumer, who also led the...
FILES PROVE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO GONZALES LIED UNDER OATH
Documents indicate eight congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting sworn Senate testimony this week by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The documents underscore questions about Gonzales'...
WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS GET SUBPOENAS IN U.S. ATTORNEY SCANDAL
Two congressional committees are issuing subpoenas for testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor on their roles in the firings of eight federal prosecutors, according to two officials familiar with the investigation....
KARL ROVE AIDE INVOLVED IN U.S. ATTORNEY SCANDAL
Justice Department documents released tonight include new emails linking Karl Rove’s top aides - former White House political director Sara Taylor, who resigned last month, and her deputy Scott Jennings - to the U.S. attorney scandal. Subpoenas have been...
ALBERTO GONZALES A JOKE AT HARVARD REUNION
LINK: A small group of student protesters, including one wearing a black hood and an orange jumpsuit, heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he posed with old classmates Saturday during their 25-year Harvard Law School reunion. "When the photographer...
WHITE HOUSE ON RED ALERT OVER MISSING E-MAILS
"The administration has acknowledged that some e-mails missing from Rove's Republican party account may relate to the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors last year. The Democratic-run Congress is investigating whether the firings resulted from political pressure by Attorney General Alberto...
KARL ROVE BEHIND U.S. ATTORNEY PURGE PLAN
"According to someone who's had conversations with White House officials, the plan to fire all 93 U.S. attorneys originated with political adviser Karl Rove. It was seen as a way to get political cover for firing the small number of...
ATTORNEY GENERAL SCANDAL GROWS
"The attorney general's former chief of staff plans to testify today that other Justice Department officials knew about the "origins and timing" of the effort to fire eight U.S. attorneys, which began two years earlier in the White House, according...
ATTY GENERAL ALBERTO GONZALES RUNS AWAY FROM QUESTIONS
"Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales today cut short a press conference about Internet safety, leaving the room at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago when reporters questioned him about the firings of U.S. attorneys. The questioning was to have lasted...
POSSIBLE CRIMES IN U.S. ATTORNEY SCANDAL
"As the liaison between the White House and the Justice Department, Ms. Goodling seems to have been squarely in the middle of what appears to have been improper directions from the White House to politicize the hiring and firing of...
DOJ OFFICIAL TO PLEAD FIFTH
"Monica Goodling, a senior Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday." [LINK]...
SENATE, HOUSE AUTHORIZE SUBPOENAS IN PROSECUTOR SCANDAL
Both the House and the Senate have authorized the issuing of subpoenas to top Bush administration officials Karl Rove, etc.... Bush admin. is stonewalling the investigation and has hinted that they plan to obstruct the investigation by claiming executive privilege......
TOP PROSECUTORS WERE VICTIMS OF BUSH ADMIN PROSECUTOR PURGE
"Three of the eight federal prosecutors ousted by the Justice Department as poor performers ranked in the top 10 for prosecutions and convictions by the nation's 93 U.S. attorneys, an analysis of court records shows. Court records covering the last...
USA TO BUSH: FIRE ALBERTO GONZALES
"The NEWSWEEK poll results offer little good news for Gonzales, who faces pressure to resign from Democrats and a handful of Republicans. Fewer than one third (32 percent) of those surveyed want him to stay remain in his job, while...
U.S. ATTORNEY SCANDAL: HILLARY TELLS GONZALES TO RESIGN
"In an exclusive interview to air Wednesday morning, March 14, on "Good Morning America," Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, for the first time called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales." [LINK]...
ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO GONZALES UNDER CORRUPTION PROBE BY DEMS
"House Democrats, led by Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel, are targeting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department under him in a wide-ranging congressional investigation. The point of the Democratic attack is dismissal of seven U.S. attorneys, all involved in...
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