Where's Alberto Gonzales?
There's a new game that can be played in DC, and it's called "Where In The World Is Alberto Gonzales." On Wednesday he published an op-ed in The LA T...
There's a new game that can be played in DC, and it's called "Where In The World Is Alberto Gonzales." On Wednesday he published an op-ed in The LA T...
The Carpetbagger Report | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
We haven't heard too much from Alberto Gonzales since he resigned in disgrace as Attorney General. He was last seen struggling to find a job in his pr...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
David Misch | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
There are those of us on the bleeding-heart (wait, shouldn't that term now be restricted to those killed in Iraq?) Left who, cynically, believe that c...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Ivy Leaguers and other top law students were rejected for plum Justice Department jobs two years ago because of their liberal leani...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress was trying to be diplomatic when it brought an unprecedented lawsuit to settle its subpoena fight against the White House,...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
In an interview in Sunday 's New York Times Magazine, David Igelsias, fired by the Bush administration in the U.S. Attorney scandal, tackles a wide range of issues.
Lauren Kirchner | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
My greatest strength: agreeability. My greatest weakness: chocolate!! So, in conclusion, please hire me at your law firm and/or mens clothing chain store.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
The New York Times is reporting Sunday that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is having a hard time finding a job at a law firm: He has, throu...
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home
The involuntary resignation of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson this week provides an opportunity to underscore and distinguish the three major failings of the Bush administration.
Jeanine Molloff | Posted 02.22.2008 | Home
A recent gathering protesting Alberto Gonzales' appearance in St. Louis underscored the Obama and Clinton's deafening silence on the erosion of our civil liberties under George W. Bush.
Think Progress | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, former attorney general Alberto Gonzales gave a speech at Washington University, for which he was compensated $30,000. Gonzales agreed to a...
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
I am glad that I turned my back on Alberto Gonzales back in 2004. I am not a traitor to Latinos, or a blind partisan.
LA Times | Richard B. Schmitt and Tom Hamburger | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
The government agency that enforces one of the principal laws aimed at keeping politics out of the civil service has accused the Justice Department of...
William Fisher | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
We need to stop substituting post-9/11 paranoia for evidence. Using the law as a blunt instrument is highly unlikely to make many friends for the U.S. in a community where we desperately need all the friends we can find.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.31.2007 | Politics
As we ring out 2007, and ring in 2008, our bloggers are looking back on the year that was (goodbye "wide stance," bald Britney, juiced up ballplayers, Melamine-tainted pet food, recalled toys, heavily-armed school shooters, Karl Rove's historical revisionism, Miss Teen USA's views on education ("like such as..."), Bill Clinton's fears of "rolling the dice," Don Imus apologizing, Michael Vick apologizing, David Vitter apologizing, Marie Osmond dancing, Lindsay Lohan rehabbing, Alberto Gonzales testi-lying, Blackwater thugs, and fired US Attorneys) and looking ahead at the year to come (hello primaries, conventions, November 4, and the end of the Bush presidency), as well as offering up their New Year's resolutions. Click here to read my resolutions.
William Fisher | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics
The destruction of the CIA tapes has raised questions about whether CIA officials withheld information from Congress, the courts and the Sept. 11 commission about aspects of the program.
New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy vid...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
The whole Obama flap over cocaine (fueled by the Clinton camp) needs to get shot down right away, before any Republicans consider using it to attack Obama. And it's so pathetically easy to shoot this one down.
Associated Press | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
In a stinging defeat for the Bush administration, one of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicago's Sears T...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
Negative news coverage might have cost Alberto Gonzales his job as attorney general, but it won him a dubious honor yesterday from a magazine publishe...
ABA Journal | Siobhan Morrissey | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
The most talked-about attorney this past year by a mile, Gonzales, 52, rose from being the grandson of illegal immigrants to the first Hispan ic attor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
Though Alberto Gonzales is gone, the Justice Department is still backing controversial voter identification laws that many believe are specifically de...
Think Progress | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
This morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform. Using his privilege as a...
Michael Siegel | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
We owned the room for 20 minutes. Ashcroft stammered and said he didn't know what to do. Only after the campus Republicans shouted, "Keep going!" did the former AG attempt to regain his flow.
Today, Barack Obama posted a message to supporters on my.barackobama.com about the...
US News and World Report printed a short piece about GOP fears that the...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! In honor of the great American holiday, Huffington Post has pulled together...
I've been running VoteVets.org for a couple of years now. In 2006 and in...
Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, two writers from Jezebel.com were invited to appear on my show, Thinking...
Florida's bachelor Governor Charlie Crist is getting married, and to a woman, too. That's how badly...
Lee Grivas, the 26-year-old boyfriend of Christina Applegate, was found dead in...
From Media Matters: On the July 2 edition of MSNBC's Verdict, during the...
Today the New York Times reports on a jaw-dropping addition to the medical spa trend. Now comes...
Even with the GOP convention nearly two months away, some in the Republican...
PARIS — A French judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people...
The bottom-up political movement that Barack Obama has been so fervently encouraging may have come too...
Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics