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The Real Importance of Telecom Immunity to the Cheney Administration

March 14, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 212 Views 0 Comments Alberto Gonzales, Andrew Card, FISA, george bush, James Comey, John Ashcroft, Marty Lederman, Telecom Amnesty

Well, the House seems to be sticking to their guns, and not passing a FISA bill that will grant immunity to the telecom industry for illegal spying. This is critically important, because it’s the last best hope to have the illegal surveillance activities of the current Cheney Administration see the light of day. During a press conference on February 28, George Bush finally went rogue on Dick, and accidentally told the truth about the reason for telecom immunity.

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The Cure for Republican Memory Loss

May 25, 2007 B. John 179 Views 1 Comment Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, Immunity, Memory Loss, republicans

This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen yet on YouTube. It’s an ad for “immunity,” the cure for republican memory loss.

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Miracle on DOJ Street

May 24, 2007 B. John 186 Views 0 Comments Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Crooks and Liars, Department of Justtice, DOJ, Kyle Sampson, Monica Goodling, Paul McNulty, Steve Benen, U.S. Attorney

Steve Benen, in a post at Crooks and Liars makes an excellent point about the U.S. Attorney firings. It seems that all these high ranking Justice Department officials have been asked who created the list of the U.S. Attorneys to be fired, and none of them know. I guess given Bush’s divine dispensation, it just floated down from heaven.

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Time For Alberto Gonzales to go

March 11, 2007 B. John 125 Views 1 Comment Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Bush, NY Times

On Thursday, Senator Arlen Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hinted very obliquely that perhaps Mr. Gonzales’s time was up. We’re not going to be oblique. Mr. Bush should dismiss Mr. Gonzales and finally appoint an attorney general who will use the job to enforce the law and defend the Constitution.

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Waterboard Rumsfeld?

November 10, 2006 B. John 263 Views 0 Comments Abu Ghraib, Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, CIA, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Guantanamo Bay, rendition, SecDef, Secretary of Defense, torture, War crimes, Waterboarding

Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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The Energizer Bunny of Corruption

October 16, 2006 B. John 196 Views 0 Comments Alberto Gonzales, FBI, Kurt Weldon, Wolf Blitizer, YouTube

Rep. Kurt Weldon is now under investigation for using his position to gain contracts and favorable treatment of his daughters lobbying firm.

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Gonzales Backtracks on Senate Testimony – Hints At Additionaly Spying Programs

March 1, 2006 B. John 201 Views Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Domestic Spying, U.S. Senate, war on terror, Warrantless Spying

In a letter yesterday to senators in which he asked to clarify his Feb. 6 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales also seemed to imply that the administration’s original legal justification for the program was not as clear-cut as he indicated three weeks ago.