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House Committee Charges
Bush Aides With Contempt

Judiciary Committee votes along party lines to issue contempt citations to Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten

Jul 25, 07 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - The House Judiciary Committee voted to issue contempt citations to two of President Bush's top aides for defying subpoenas related to the US attorney firings scandal, edging Congress closer to a Constitutional showdown with the White House over its claims of executive privilege. The committee voted along party lines 22-17... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • US attorney • Democrats • Republican • Harriet Miers • executive privilege • contempt • Josh Bolten • US attorney firings • District of Columbia • contempt of congress • constitutional showdown • Constitution • 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

White House Expands Exec Privilege Claims

Congressional Dems face new obstacle in
US attorneys probe

Jul 20, 07 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - White House officials have made a broad new claim to executive privilege that would block the Justice Department from pursuing contempt charges initiated by Congress, the Washington Post reports. Citing a Regan-era legal opinion, they argued that "A US attorney would not be permitted to bring contempt charges or... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • US attorney • Democrats • White House • executive privilege

Bush Chief of Staff May Face Contempt Charge

House panel rejects privilege claim

Jul 20, 07 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten may face contempt charges over the administration's refusal  to turn over subpoenened documents. A House panel yesterday voted 7-3 to reject the White House contention that the documents—sought in the probe of the dismissals of US attorneys—are covered by executive privilege,... More »

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US attorney • House Judiciary Committee • Harriet Miers • executive privilege • Josh Bolten • Linda Sanchez

White House Stonewalls
on Subpoenas

Bush invokes executive privilege
in Senate probe of US attorney firings

Jun 28, 07 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - The White House shot down attempts to subpoena internal documents concerning the US attorney firings today by invoking executive privilege. Though not a surprise, the refusal moved the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to accuse the administration of "Nixonian stonewalling." If the committee doesn't back down, the... More »

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Congress • US attorney • investigation • Senate Democrats • Senate Judiciary Committee • White House • Harriet Miers • House of Representatives • Fred Fielding • Sara M. Taylor • Patrick Leahy • executive privilege • subpoena • stonewall • scandal • George W. Bush

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

US Attorney Firing Probe Spreads to White House

Congress calls Miers, another ex-official

Jun 13, 07 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The congressional investigation of the US attorney firings reached the White House today as the judiciary committee in each chamber subpoenaed a different former high-level official. Lawmakers subpoenaed documents from the White House chief of staff, the AP reports, but Karl Rove has not been served because Democrats are... More »

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US attorney • Karl Rove • White House • Harriet Miers • Sara Taylor • scandal

10 Arrested in Laos Takeover Scheme

Plotters led by former Laotian general and US military officer 

Jun 5, 07 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ten suspects were arrested in six Californian cities today for conspiring to overthrow the government of Laos. The plotters included a former general in the Laotian army and a former US military officer who was a covert operative during the Vietnam War, the AP reports. Most of the group were... More »

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California • US attorney • Vietnam • Los Angeles • United States • Laos • explosives • Sacramento • missile • Hmong • mine

Elle Woods,
Is That You?

Slate's legal correspondent is tougher on Dems than they were on Goodling

May 24, 07 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Monica Goodling cleared a very low bar in her Congressional testimony yesterday, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick argues, and she can thank the Democrats who questioned her for making her look good. The majority members of the House Judiciary Committee, "in expecting to question the Great Exploding Idiot Barbie," Lithwick... More »

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Department of Justice • US attorney • Monica Goodling • Congressional hearings • House Judiciary Committee • scandal

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

Gonzales Fingers Lame-Duck Aide

McNulty responsible
for US attorney firings, AG contends

May 15, 07 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paul McNulty bears the ultimate responsibility for the US attorney firings, Alberto Gonzales said today, placing the blame for the scandal rocking the Justice Department on its second-highest-ranking official. "He signed off on the names," the AG said. McNulty, who announced yesterday that he'll step down this summer,... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Attorney General • Paul McNulty • resignation • scandal

Rove Had Motive to Oust Attorneys

Fired attorneys ticked off Rove by being lax on voter fraud, says Dan Froomkin

May 15, 07 7:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove's role in the US attorney firings wouldn't be atypical for the power broker, writes  the Post's Dan Froomkin. Bush's ballot-calculating mastermind has long been monomaniacal about prosecuting voter fraud, a move his critics decry as a tactic to "suppress poor and minority turnout." More »

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US attorney • Karl Rove • voter fraud • Dan Froomkin • scandal • presidential election

No. 2 at Justice to Step Down

May 14, 07 6:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty will quit the Justice Department after admitting he misled a Senate committee in its investigation into nine fired US attorneys. Three other top Justice officials have resigned in recent weeks, but McNulty, AG Alberto Gonzales' second-in-command and himself a former US attorney, is the highest-ranking... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • investigation • Congressional investigations • Attorney General • Paul McNulty

White House
Hid Rove's Role
in US Attorney
Hiring

Leaked emails show cover-up of meddling

May 11, 07 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove finagled a U.S. attorney post for his protégé Timothy Griffin, and the White House concealed his role in the appointment, the National Journal concludes from previously unrelease e-mails leaked to them. Griffin replaced fired attorney Bud Cummins; a Justice Department letter (later retracted) assured Congress Rove... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • US attorney • Karl Rove • White House • Timothy Griffin • Patriot Act • scandal

Push to Oust Gonzales
Loses Steam

AG looks more confident as GOP defenders materialize

May 11, 07 7:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democrats' campaign to unseat Alberto Gonzales appears to have lost some luster, the Financial Times reports. As the House Judiciary Committee continues to grill the attorney general about the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys last year, Republicans are increasingly rallying behind their man, and are now calling for... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Republican • Democratic Congress • House Judiciary Committee • scandal

Ninth Fired Prosecutor Named

Addition to list belies Gonzales testimony, shifts timetable

May 10, 07 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Alberto Gonzales heading for more congressional grilling tomorrow—this time by the House—the Washington Post reports that a ninth federal prosecutor, Todd P. Graves, was asked to step down from his job in January 2006. Graves, who served in Kansas City, said he was told to resign to... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Congressional hearings • Todd P. Graves • scandal

Comey Defends Fired Attorneys

Most were strong performers, former deputy AG tells
House panel

May 4, 07 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most of the U.S. attorneys axed en masse by the Justice Department last year weren't underperforming, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told a House panel yesterday. Comey, who left Justice over a year before the firings, said he'd rated the attorneys' performance for Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Monica Goodling • Congressional investigations • Democratic Congress • James Comey • scandal

Gonzales Aide Probed for Political Hiring

Goodling accused of screening prosecutors for party affiliation

May 3, 07 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department is investigating whether Monoica Goodling, the former aide to Alberto Gonzales recently given immunitiy to testify before Congress, illegally used party loyalty as a criteria in hiring federal prosecutors. Goodling's position involved reviewing applications for prosecutors; it's a violation of federal law to consider political affiliation in... More »

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Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • investigation • law • Monica Goodling • Attorney General • Senate Judiciary Committee • White House • trial • scandal

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