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Kyle Sampson
Kyle Sampson is the Justice Department aide who resigned over the firings of U.S. attorneys. He was forced to appear before a Senate committee, but he claimed to "not remember" many of the answers to questions asked. However he did say... [more]
Kyle Sampson is the Justice Department aide who resigned over the firings of U.S. attorneys. He was forced to appear before a Senate committee, but he claimed to "not remember" many of the answers to questions asked. However he did say that the lawyers weren't fired based on their professional performance, but instead because they weren't supporting President Bush's political agenda.
Excel Academy and Uvalde High School students were treated to what might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience Feb. 18 when they met with Alberto Gonzales, a former U.S. attorney general and current visiting professor with Texas Tech University.
The message shared by Gonzales, who served in the administration of President George W. Bush for four years as [...]
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Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defends Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to investigate allegations of prisoner abuse by the CIA . Referring to Holder's decision going against the apparent wishes of President Obama, Gonzales says, "As chief prosecutor of the United States, he should make the decision on his own, based on the facts, then inform the White House." The attorney general has a "great deal of discretion" in such...
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From historycommons.org
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Earlier today, former Attorney General John Ashcroft admitted at a Conservative Political Action Conference that civilian trials for terrorists have "use and utility."
Sam Stein on Huffington Post points out that the statement "throws a wrench in Republican talking points" which lately have dismissed the civilian justice system as irrelevant to the war on terror.
But Ashcroft is hardly the first Republican to acknowledge the civilian courts...
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From open.salon.com
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For most people, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is a national embarrassment, a pimple on the ass of American history. But to hear him tell it, the man George W. Bush called "Fredo" is a victim of partisan warfare. And the lesson he apparently learned in Washington is not that he politicized the Bush Justice Department, but that he didn't politicize it enough.
Those are among the head-shaking takeaways in a brief but revealing...
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From crooksandliars.com
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Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the Bush administration should have abandoned the idea of firing U.S. Attorneys in 2008 because they could not count on Republicans to stop an investigation. His comments appear in Esquire’s Meaning of Life issue.
Al Kaman of the Washington Post picked out some choice quotes from Gonzales.
“We should have [...]
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From newmexicoindependent.com
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On this day in 2005, Alberto Gonzales became the first U.S. attorney general of Hispanic descent when the Senate approved his nomination 60-36, in a largely party-line vote. Democratic opposition focused on Gonzales’s role as White House counsel in pursuing...
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From feedburner.com
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TIMECongress vs. GonzalesTIME24, 2010 In April 2007, then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took a five-hour verbal lashing from Senators in a panel hearing over the firing of eight US ...
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