WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey has recused himself from the Justice Department's investigation into Bernard L. Madoff, accused of...
Lynne Glasner | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
It's time to reset the table. There's much talk about lame duck Bush, but what about lame duck Congress?
Paul Peete | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home
America can no longer afford to wait for an Attorney General to be selected by the next president to address the breakdown in control over the nation's police departments' use of force policies.
Shayana Kadidal | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
Mukasey's complaints and the accompanying proposals are another attempt to drag us into years of further legal challenges and delays in these cases. Let's take a look at them, one by one.
Muckraked.com | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics
In describing the post-9/11 mindset at the Department of Justice which included the promotion of such methods as waterboarding during interrogations a...
Washington Post | Ben Pershing | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today accused the Bush administration of being overly obstinate on a range of controversial issues, expressing particular f...
Boston Globe | Peter Schworm | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Boston College Law School will not award its highest honor to US Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at its May commencement amid sharp criticism from...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The CIA on three occasions shortly after the September 11 attacks used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, CIA Director...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboardin...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Throughout his October confirmation hearings, Attorney General Mike Mukasey denounced the use of torture, stating that it is "antithetical to what thi...
NY Times | Ariel Alexovich | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Justice Department's criminal inquiry into the destruction of the Central Intelligence Agency interrogation tapes will be carried out largely by a...
Associated Press | Matt Apuzzo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
For the high-profile, politically charged investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videos, the Justice Department is turning to a low-p...
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
When news broke that the CIA had kept videotapes showing torture of detainees secret and then secretly destroyed them, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) was fast ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Someone call Patrick Fitzgerald. Today Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) sent a letter to Attorney General Mukasey requesting the immediate appointment of a speci...
Thinkprogress.org | Amanda | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spoke at the Corpus Christi Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, giving his views on "immigration, educat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the pr...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The White House on Friday defended Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, say...
Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Paul Kane | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey suggested today that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his constituti...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey on Wednesday pledged to strike a delicate balance between keeping the nation safe and protecting the civil ...
Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey calls GOP presidential hopeful Rudolph W. Giuliani a "good friend" in new documents released by the Senate...
Newsweek | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
After president Bush settled on Michael Mukasey to be his next attorney general, White House officials were privately worried about how conservatives ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics