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Michael Mukasey stories: 68 news summaries

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Executive Privilege
Goes to Court

Ruling in lawmakers' challenge could
cement power grab

Apr 25, 08 9:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - The civil suit brought by Congress as it investigates the 2005-06 firings of US attorneys is becoming a groundbreaking constitutional tussle that could decide the true scope of executive privilege. The precedent that could be set in the ruling from a US district court is now more significant than the... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Harriet Miers • Josh Bolten • US attorney firings • contempt of congress • Michael Mukasey

Congress Prods Justice Dept.
on Secrecy

Dems accuse Mukasey, underlings of stalling on requests

Apr 8, 08 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congress is redoubling its efforts to get info from the Justice Department, the Washington Post reports. Requests for classified documents have languished for as long as 3 years, and the contretemps between Congress and Alberto Gonzales over their disclosure has improved little under the new AG, Michael Mukasey. "We... More »

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Congress • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • Patrick Leahy • detainee • US attorney firings • Michael Mukasey • warrantless wiretapping

OPINION

AG's 'Invented' 9/11 Claim Is Scare Tactic

Salon scribe blasts Mukasey claim that law blocked key eavesdrop

Apr 3, 08 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Mukasey’s recent claim that surveillance laws barred eavesdropping on a crucial pre-9/11 phone call is either an attempt to scare up support for spying or a revelation of massive US failure, Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon. The 9/11 Commission never mentioned the mysterious phone call—and the executive... More »

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September 11 • FISA • Michael Mukasey • 9/11 commission • warrantless wiretapping • Lee Hamilton • Glenn Greenwald • Philip Zelikow

Mukasey Open to Spy Bill Deal

AG calls for 'creative' solution to debate on phone company lawsuits

Mar 21, 08 8:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The nation's top lawman welcomed a deal today on a stalled federal spy bill, Reuters reports. “If somebody has some brilliantly creative compromise, I'm happy to hear that,” Attorney General Michael Mukasey said. A recent House bill would allow lawsuits against phone companies that gave records to Washington,... More »

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Senate • telecom • FISA • Michael Mukasey • warrantless wiretapping • House Democrats • telecommunications companies

House Sues Bush Aides Over Subpoenas

Lawsuit calls on
Miers, Bolton to talk about fired prosecutors

Mar 10, 08 6:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lawmakers sued two top Bush aides today to make them testify about the sacking of federal prosecutors in 2006. The House Judiciary Committee suit seeks to enforce subpoenas against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former Bush counsel Harriet Miers, who have refused to testify or supply subpoenaed... More »

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Bush administration • House Judiciary Committee • Harriet Miers • House of Representatives • Josh Bolten • US attorney firings • Michael Mukasey • Executive Branch

First Inmates Freed in Crack Overhaul

More than 3,000 eligible for release this year under new sentencing guidelines

Mar 5, 08 3:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Federal prisons are beginning to release prisoners to comply with new crack-cocaine sentencing guidelines, the Washington Post reports. The US Sentencing Commission made more than 3,000 inmates eligible for release this year by voting in December to even out punishments for crack-cocaine offenses against those involving powdered cocaine; crack... More »

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drugs • cocaine • Michael Mukasey • crack cocaine • sentencing guidelines • US Sentencing Commission • prisons • jail overcrowding • drug sentence

Mukasey Nixes Bush Aides Contempt Case

AG rejects House request, saying no crime was committed

Mar 1, 08 5:12 AM CST
(Newser) - A  showdown over executive privilege got more likely yesterday when Attorney General Michael Mukasey said he wouldn't pursue contempt charges against two Bush aides, Reuters reports. Mukasey rejected the request from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to refer the case to a grand jury, arguing that they had committed no crime... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Democrats • Harriet Miers • House of Representatives • executive privilege • Josh Bolten • US attorney firings • Michael Mukasey • George W. Bush

Congress Asks Justice Dept. for Clemens Probe

Bipartisan letter wants to look at star's steroids denials for perjury

Feb 27, 08 1:56 PM CST
(Newser) - A congressional committee today asked the Justice Department to examine Roger Clemens’ denials under oath that he used performance-enhancing drugs and determine if they constitute perjury, the AP reports. In the letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Reps. Henry Waxman and Tom Davis cite the pitcher's statements contradicting those of... More »

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steroids • MLB • Henry Waxman • Roger Clemens • anabolic steroids • Tom Davis • Andy Pettitte • perjury • Michael Mukasey • human growth hormone • baseball • Mitchell steroids investigation • Brian McNamee • House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Jailed Ex-Gov Wants Special Counsel

Siegelman seeks probe after '60 Minutes' report; Rove denies role

Feb 26, 08 8:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Lawyers for Jim Siegelman want an outside investigator to look into charges that GOP operatives railroaded the ex-governor of Alabama on bribery charges, reports the AP. "60 Minutes" reported Sunday that prosecutors met over 70 times with the aide that helped put Siegelman behind bars, and had him write... More »

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Karl Rove • Attorney General • corruption • Don Siegelman • Alabama • Michael Mukasey • governor

Stalling Spy Bill Hurts Intel, Admin Asserts

Letter pushes House Dems to pass new wiretapping rules

Feb 23, 08 8:45 AM CST
(Newser) - As House Dems refuse to pass the Senate’s wiretapping bill, the administration is heaping more pressure on them to change their minds, reports Muckraker. A letter to the House intelligence committee from top administration officials claims that the failure to pass the bill is causing “lost intelligence information”... More »

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Attorney General • Steny Hoyer • surveillance • Mike McConnell • Michael Mukasey • warrantless wiretapping • House Democrats • Director of National Intelligence • wiretapping bill

Look Who's Trying Out Waterboarding

Young men sample torture technique to settle debate

Jan 31, 08 12:38 PM CST
(Newser) - As the debate over waterboarding continues unabated, it has occurred to more than one cocky—or conscientious—young man that anyone can see for himself what it feels like, and whether it constitutes torture. The Wall Street Journal talks to several who've tried it—using friends with no special training.... More »

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CIA • torture • Michael Mukasey • waterboarding • interrogation techniques

Mukasey Won't Budge on Waterboarding

He again refuses
to answer senators' questions on legality

Jan 30, 08 4:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Testifying before a Senate committee today, Attorney General Michael Mukasey frustrated attempts to get him to answer on whether waterboarding constitutes torture. "I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to pass definitive judgment on the technique’s legality,” said Mukasey, hedging in a manner that,... More »

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torture • Michael Mukasey • waterboarding

Senate Grills Mukasey
Today on Waterboarding

Mukasey warns he'll stonewall on questions about legality

Jan 30, 08 3:43 AM CST
(Newser) - A high-noon face off is looming today between Attorney General Michael Mukasey and the Senate Judiciary Committee over waterboarding, the simulated drowning interrogation technique that many consider torture. Committee chair Patrick Leahy said Mukasey faces "serious questions" on the issue at today's hearing. But Mukasey has warned Leahy in... More »

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CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Attorney General • Senate Judiciary Committee • interrogation • Michael Mukasey • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • Abu Zubaydah • Military Commissions Act • Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri

Waterboarding Returns to Spotlight

Ex-spy chief confirms use of tactic as Mukasey preps for Hill hearing

Jan 29, 08 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - American interrogators' tactics included waterboarding sometime before 2005, but the tactic "has not been used in years," the ex-director of national intelligence says. John Negroponte's acknowledgment, the most definitive confirmation yet of the Bush administration's use of waterboarding, comes as Michael Mukasey prepares to return to Capitol Hill... More »

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torture • John Negroponte • Michael Mukasey • waterboarding

Judge Refuses to Step Into
CIA Tape Case

Justice Department's investigation sufficient for now, justice rules

Jan 9, 08 7:31 PM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge today denied a request by a lawyer representing terrorism suspects that he open hearings into the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes, the AP reports. Judge Henry H. Kennedy said that he had no evidence that the Bush administration had defied court orders and that the Justice Department's... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • CIA • Department of Justice • investigation • Guantanamo Bay • Michael Mukasey • interrogation tapes • terror suspects

Justice to Probe CIA Tapes

Department launches criminal investigation

Jan 2, 08 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - The Justice Department has launched a criminal probe into the CIA's destruction of videotapes documenting the interrogation of  two Al-Qaeda suspects. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed John Durham, a federal prosecutor from Connecticut, to head the inquiry. Durham has a reputation as a tough prosecutor; he has overseen investigations... More »

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CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Jose Rodriguez • Michael Mukasey • John Durham • al-Qaeda

NSA Deepens Tense Alliance with Telecoms

Both sides await word on possible immunity
for carriers

Dec 16, 07 2:33 PM CST
(Newser) - The telecom industry will be all ears to proceedings beginning tomorrow on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers will decide if companies helping the government’s warrantless surveillance program should receive immunity. President Bush personally lobbied Congress to further the NSA’s tenuous alliance with the industry, whose members are increasingly resistant... More »

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Verizon • Qwest • privacy • NSA • Drug Enforcement Administration • Mike McConnell • AT and T • Michael Mukasey • telecommunications companies

White House Urges Judge Not to Probe CIA Tapes

Says order to protect evidence didn't apply

Dec 15, 07 11:39 AM CST
(Newser) - The Bush administration has asked a federal judge—who issued a 2005 order demanding the safeguarding of evidence on detainees—not to investigate the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes, the AP reports. White House lawyers, addressing the tapes issue for the first time in court, say that if Judge Henry... More »

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Bush administration • Guantanamo Bay • Michael Mukasey • CIA videotapes

Mukasey Tells Congress to Back Off CIA Tapes Inquiry

AG won't divulge investigation details

Dec 14, 07 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - Michael Mukasey isn't about to open up to Democratic lawmakers who want details of the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation tapes, the Washington Post reports. In letters sent today, the new AG also restated his objections to appointing a special prosecutor to investigate,... More »

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Congress • CIA • Department of Justice • Senate Democrats • Arlen Specter • Patrick Leahy • Michael Mukasey • interrogation techniques

Biden Calls for CIA Video Probe

CIA chief to testify before Congress tomorrow

Dec 10, 07 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Sen. Joe Biden has called for Attorney General Michael Mukasey to appoint a special counsel to investigate the CIA's destruction of videos of interrogations of suspected terrorists. Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cited Mukasey's unwillingness, during confirmation hearings, to take a stand on whether waterboarding is... More »

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CIA • torture • Senate Intelligence Committee • Michael Hayden • Michael Mukasey • interrogations

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