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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Alberto Gonzales

Alberto Gonzales stories: 104 news summaries

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Let Gonzo
Off the
Perjury Hook

He's a creep but
not a criminal, says Post’s Marcus

Jul 31, 07 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales’ Senate testimony last week was a disgraceful exercise in dodging, but the perjury charge Democratic senators have been hawking ever since doesn’t hold water, says  the Washington Post’s lefty Ruth Marcus. In an “unexpected position,” the writer defends Gonzales, saying he may have minced... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Attorney General • John Ashcroft • Senate • surveillance • perjury • wiretap • scandal

Justice Faces Blank Slate in Gonzo Probe

Few precedents for special prosecutor to investigate dept. boss

Jul 30, 07 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Solicitor General Paul Clement has a tough decision to make: whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate his boss Alberto Gonzales' testimony to Congress. Four Senate Democrats have written to Clement requesting a special counsel to determine if Gonzales concealed the truth in his testimony in the US Attorney... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • investigation • perjury • US attorney firings • testimony • Paul Clement

NY Times:
Impeach Gonzales

Editorial board drops the 'I' bomb in call for special prosecutor

Jul 29, 07 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A scathing editorial in today's New York Times calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Alberto Gonzales' "words and deeds" and concludes with an unequivocal recommendation: "If that does not happen, Congress should impeach Mr. Gonzales." The call comes as the White House attempts... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • New York Times • Attorney General • impeach • wiretap • George W. Bush

FBI Chief's Testimony Contradicts Gonzales

Democrats demand perjury probe

Jul 27, 07 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pressure mounted on Alberto Gonzales yesterday as FBI director Robert Mueller directly contradicted the attorney general in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. Mueller and Gonzales gave dramatically different accounts about  whether the Justice department's secret eavesdropping program was the subject of the now-legendary nighttime confrontation at the hospital bedside... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • FBI • John Ashcroft • House Judiciary Committee • Robert Mueller • testimony • National Security Agency • Terrorist Surveillance Program • eavesdrop

Senate Sends Rove Subpoena

Adviser called over
role in attorney firings as Dems urge perjury charges for AG

Jul 26, 07 2:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed presidential strategist Karl Rove today, over his role in the 2006 US attorney firings. Chairman Patrick Leahy said he’d “exhausted every avenue seeking the voluntary cooperation" of Bush's Brain, and was left no option but to force him to appear. More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Karl Rove • Senate Judiciary Committee • Patrick Leahy • subpoena • US attorney firings • wiretap

Intel Memo Contradicts Gonzales

Senator threatens perjury probe over conflicting accounts

Jul 26, 07 8:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales' Senate testimony this week is at odds with a year-old intelligence document, and the discrepancy may earn the AG in a congressional perjury investigation. At issue is a 2004 White House briefing, which Gonzales has repeatedly testified did not concern the warrantless wiretapping program; a memo from the... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • John Ashcroft • Senate Judiciary Committee • Arlen Specter • Patrick Leahy • National Security Agency • Terrorist Surveillance Program • warrantless wiretapping

AG Refutes Account of Hospital Visit

Senators assail Gonzales in acrimonious oversight hearing

Jul 24, 07 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales today refuted an ex-colleague's dramatic testimony about a 2004 visit to John Ashcroft's hospital bed, but the Senate Judiciary Committee wasn't buying it. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter were openly skeptical of the AG's account of the scene in John Ashcroft's room, and Specter raised the possibility of... More »

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Congress • Alberto Gonzales • Democrats • Republican • Attorney General • John Ashcroft • James Comey • NSA • hospital • testimony • warrantless wiretapping • Deputy Attorney General • George W. Bush

House Panel Schedules Contempt Vote

Executive privilege battle looms in US attorney firings probe

Jul 24, 07 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congress is speeding toward a constitutional collision with the White House over the US attorney firings, the Washington Post reports. The House Judiciary Committee votes tomorrow on contempt citations against current chief of staff Joshua Bolten and ex-counsel Harriet Miers. President Bush has said he will challenge any attempt to... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • House Judiciary Committee • Harriet Miers • Josh Bolten • John Conyers • US attorney firings

US Firms Fund Colombian Terror Groups

Multinationals' payoffs to paramilitaries run afoul of antiterror laws

Jul 23, 07 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Business as usual for US multinationals in Colombia involves paying off paramilitaries and guerrillas, a practice that offers "insurance" against violence—and violates US law. The LA Times looks at the tension between protecting economic investments and essentially if not directly foiling counterterrorism efforts, a conflict that has the... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • terrorism • John Ashcroft • Colombia • corporations • terrorist

Gonzales Alerted to
FBI Misdeeds

AG told of violations before testimony that no abuses occurred

Jul 10, 07 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI alerted Alberto Gonzales that agents had violated privacy regulations at least six times in the weeks before he told a Senate committee that no abuses had occurred, the Washington Post reports. The 2005 and 2006 internal reports detailed numerous problems with FBI activities under the Patriot Act, but... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • FBI • Senate • national security letters • Senate Intelligence Committee • Patriot Act

Legal Battle Looms Over Domestic Spy Documents

Senate subpoenas; White House balks

Jun 22, 07 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A showdown on the White House's warantless wiretapping program looms after the Senate Judiciary Committee authorized subpoenas for documents on the progam, and the administration said it had no plans to comply, claiming the material is classified and off limits. The president may invoke executive privilege to prevent the documents'... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • John Ashcroft • Senate Judiciary Committee • domestic intelligence • executive privilege • subpoena • spy • wiretap • warrantless wiretapping

Gonzogate Trickles Down
Into the Courts

Defense teams charge
political motivation in broad array of cases

Jun 18, 07 10:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Months after the scandal over eight US Attorney firings first hit, the accusation of politically motivated justice has reached federal courtrooms around the country. Defense attorneys are invoking the controversy to call indictments into question in cases from bank fraud to child pornography, the LA Times reports. More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • Attorney General • scandal

Race Cases Don't Have a Prayer With Feds

Justice targeting religious discrimination, snubbing civil rights

Jun 14, 07 7:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department has set race discrimination cases on the back burner to pursue claims by religious groups that their rights have been violated, the Times reports. Bush administration attorneys have intervened spiritedly in protecting churches and synagogues from zoning committees, for instance, but slashed lawsuits on behalf of minority... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • religion • holy hires

Democrats Don't Live Up to Hype

New majority's accomplishments are
few, and mostly symbolic

Jun 12, 07 4:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Seven months after wresting control of Congress from Republicans, Democrats have failed to make good on their promises, writes the Economist. Almost none of the bills introduced in the first "100 hours" has become law, AG Alberto Gonzalez still has a job, and an Iraq pullout is nowhere in... More »

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Congress • Alberto Gonzales • Democrats • Republican • Congressional investigations • Democratic Congress • Senate Democrats • 100 hours • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Vote on AG Derails in Senate

Legislative maneuver comes up 7 votes short

Jun 11, 07 8:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - A no-confidence vote on Alberto Gonzales failed to get out of the Senate today when a procedural vote to cut off debate failed by seven votes. Both sides proclaimed partial victory: Republicans had blasted the vote as a stunt, but Democrats lured seven GOP senators across party lines to support... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • Senate • Trent Lott • Arlen Specter • no confidence

Report: White House Stacking Immigration Courts

Bush appointees chosen for GOP loyalty

Jun 11, 07 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House is illegally packing the nation's immigration courts with GOP partisans, circumventing civil service rules to appoint administration insiders and cronies, according to a Washington Post analysis of relevant records. A third of judges appointed to the immigration bench since 2004 have been party loyalists, and half had... More »

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immigration • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • GOP • Citizenship and Immigration Services

Ex-Justice Aide Points Fingers

Deputy AG was 'not fully candid,' Goodling tells House committee

May 23, 07 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The deputy attorney general dissembled in his Senate testimony about the US attorney firings, Monica Goodling told a House committee today. Testifying under limited immunity from prosecution, the AG's former White House liaison said Paul McNulty's account was "incomplete or inaccurate" and accused him of "downplaying" the White... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Karl Rove • Senate hearings • Monica Goodling • Paul McNulty • Harriet Miers • scandal

Dems Crank Up Heat on Gonzales

No-confidence vote on the table;
US attorney hit list keeps growing

May 18, 07 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales will face a non-binding motion of no confidence in the Senate as soon as next week, intensifying pressure on the AG to resign. The Washington Post reports today that the list of US attorneys his office considered for dismissal—which Gonzales has testified included just eight names—now... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Charles Schumer • Attorney General • Dianne Feinstein • resignation • scandal

US Attorney Scandal Widens

Justice Dept. considered firing 26; documents contradict Gonzales' testimony

May 17, 07 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department considered firing at least 26 US attorneys, the Washington Post reports, including 13 who still have their jobs. Alberto Gonzales' office compiled the previously undisclosed lists, which appear to indicate that the AG targeted far more prosecutors than he has acknowledged. He has testified that the purge... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • Kyle Sampson • scandal

Comey's Star Rises as Support for Gonzo Falls

Testimony spotlights political future of former Justice No. 2

May 17, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - James Comey's star turn in Senate testimony against Alberto Gonzales this week prompts speculation that the charismatic former deputy AG should be on the short list to replace him—and might even have legs as a presidential candidate some day. The Wall Street Journal assesses Comey's political future, as support... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Patrick Fitzgerald • politics • Senate hearings • White House • James Comey

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