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What Pelosi Could Have Done: A Response to Chris Weigant

Frank Dwyer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


Frank Dwyer

"What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?" the estimable Chris Weigant asked in a recent post. She could have defended her country. She could have ...

Does Torture Work?

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics


Robert Creamer

As a country, we need to emerge from this debate having placed the argument that "torture works" outside of the boundaries of acceptable political discourse once and for all.

Obama To Keep All U.S. Attorneys 'For The Time Being'

CNN | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics


President-elect Obama has asked all U.S. Attorneys to "continue to serve for the time being" and is not demanding immediate wholesale resignations of ...

Mukasey returns to work after collapse

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — With briefcase in hand and a smile on his face, Attorney General Michael Mukasey returned to work Friday after collapsing during a ...

Friday Talking Points [53] -- Why McCain Is Losing, And Why Democrats Shouldn't Say So

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

John McCain is losing the race for the White House. Now, this doesn't mean he has already lost it -- we've still got to go vote, after all. I'll cov...

This Election, It's "Déjà Vu All Over Again"

Paul Peete | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home


Paul Peete

No one expects Americans to riot or protest the war like my generation did. But we cannot let what the Bush Administration started continue into the next presidential administration.

It Ain't Over Mukasey

Paul C. Light | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics


Paul C. Light

Mukasey declared the Justice Department hiring scandal closed yesterday. There was no criminal harm, he told the American Bar Association, therefore no foul. He is absolutely wrong.

Boston College Law School Won't Honor Mukasey

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...

Three Men Waterboard Themselves And Tell The Terrible Tale

Wall Street Journal | YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


One night last month, Jean-Pierre Larroque drove into the desert here, lay down in the road and waited for one of his best friends to waterboard him. ...

Mukasey Still Refuses To Say If Waterboarding Is Illegal

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...

Ashcroft No-Bid Contract Brings Scrutiny To Justice Department

New York Times | PHILIP SHENON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


When the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey needed to find an outside lawyer to monitor a large corporation willing to settle criminal charges out o...

Congress To Subpoena CIA Officials To Testify About Destroyed Tapes

AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In a direct challenge to President Bush, a House panel said Wednesday it has prepared subpoenas to force CIA officials to testify about the agency's s...

Max Follmer

Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey

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...

Clinton, Dodd, Biden, Obama Skip Mukasey Confirmation Vote

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Mukasey, 66, was the White House's first choice to replace Gonzales. Besides Schumer and Feinstein, Democrats voting to confirm Mukasey were: Sens. E...

Torture Hearings

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A Marine Corps lawyer told a House subcommittee Thursday the Pentagon blocked him from testifying that harsh interrogation methods tripped up his pros...

Mukasey Nomination May Face Senate Filibuster

Congressional Quarterly | Keith Perine and Seth Stern | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Michael Mukasey appears headed for confirmation as attorney general before Thanksgiving, but Senate Democratic leaders are leaving open the possibilit...

America Speaks: Poll Finds Majority Believe Waterboarding Is Torture

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A majority of Americans consider waterboarding a form of torture, but some of those say it's OK for the U.S. government to use the technique, accordi...

Mukasey Responds: Unsure About Legality Of Waterboarding

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In an effort to quell growing doubts in the Senate about his nomination as attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey on Tuesday declared that waterboarding...

All 10 Dems On Judiciary Cmte Write Mukasey: Denounce Waterboarding As Torture

New York Times | PHILIP SHENON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


All 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pressed Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, on Tuesday for a clear-c...

NYT Op-Ed: Mukasey Must Retract Statement Giving Bush Authority To Break Federal Law

New York Times | JED RUBENFELD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


AT his confirmation hearings last week, Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, was asked whether the president is required...

Top Judiciary Dem Leahy: Mukasey 'Headed For Swift Approval'

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey is headed for swift approval with scant objections, the powerful Democrat who will chair his confirmation h...

Mukasey Papers Cite Giuliani Friendship

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...

Bush Attorney General Nominee Will Recuse Himself From Giuliani Issues

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Judge Michael B. Mukasey, if confirmed by the Senate as attorney general, will recuse himself from any matters involving his close friend Rudolph W. G...

Gonzo Redux? Mukasey Tells Right-Wing Activists He Backs Gitmo, "Enhanced" Interrogation

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 ...

Democrats May Tie Mukasey Confirmation to Gonzales Papers

Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The retired federal judge nominated as attorney general enjoyed a warm reception on Capitol Hill yesterday, but Democrats continued sending mixed sign...