Friday Talking Points [Vol. 12]
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.
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.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics
The U.S. has now become the dumping ground of choice for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, principally because we lack the laws necessary to prosecute them.
AP | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endured screams of "criminal" and "liar" during a speech at the University of Florida on Monday evening. Abo...
AP | Frederic J. Frommer | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics
Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. attorney for Minnesota, will be leaving the post to take a position at the Justice Department in Washington, ending...
William Fisher | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics
Checkbooks at the ready? After all, don't we all owe poor Al Gonzales our support in his time of need?
Thinkprogress.org | Amanda | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Yesterday, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spoke at the Corpus Christi Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, giving his views on "immigration, educat...
Michael Roston | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
In the future, donations to keep your favorite alleged criminal politician out of the slammer will be tax deductible.
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
The contribution form distributed by Leitch asks that donations be sent to a post office box in Alexandria. Leitch said in an e-mail yesterday that th...
AP | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
President Bush welcomed Michael Mukasey back into government Wednesday and promised to help the new attorney general rebuild the top leadership of the...
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
Supporters of former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales have created a trust fund to help pay for his legal expenses, which are mounting in the face...
Elizabeth Holtzman | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics
Criminal liability of this White House will have wider repercussions than Mr. Mukasey's confirmation. It will reverberate through his tenure as Attorney General, and beyond the end of the Bush administration.
Huff TV | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
Michael Mukasey says he needs more information to determine if the ancient Spanish Inquisition technique of waterboarding is torture as defined under ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.03.2007 | Politics
So, is waterboarding a deal-breaker? It clearly is for Chris Dodd, Patrick Leahy, and the other senators who vowed to vote no on the Mukasey nomination due to his refusal to say whether the controversial torture technique is illegal. But the AG designate's unwillingness was apparently not enough to dissuade Judiciary Committee members Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, whose support virtually guarantees Mukasey's confirmation. In announcing her decision, DiFi delivered the week's lamest endorsement. "First and foremost," she said, "Michael Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales." Wow, with credentials like that, how could you not make him America's top cop? Bush defended Mukasey's waterboard waffling, saying "he had not been briefed" on the technique. Allow us: Kaj Larsen blogs about having himself waterboarded for Mukasey's edification.
Tom Alderman | Posted 10.26.2007 | Media
We need a Sorry Guide to the various apology life forms alive in the media. Many of them seem to fall into a set of basic categories.
Michael Roston | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
If Mukasey was the man for the job, as Cheney says, why did it take 2 and 1/2 years of Alberto Gonzales before we hired him?
Coleen Rowley | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
The president, vice president, and CIA director--not to mention the credulous crowd around Nancy Pelosi--have all been regurgitating a king-sized whopper aimed at providing "justification" for the NSA program.
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics
Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee seem so thrilled that Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales that they're willing to vote for him even though he's another loyal Bushie.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
The Democrats need to be as clever at using Senate rules as the Republicans have been.
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
I must admit that listening to McCain answer Pastor Rick Warren's questions...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics