On AlterNet: attorney general
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "attorney general"
Tim Wise, CounterPunch. March 2, 2009.
Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder blamed personal cowardice for our racial divide, rather than institutionalized inequities.
Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. February 2, 2009.
We finally have a new Attorney General.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. January 15, 2009.
"We prosecuted our own soldiers for using it in Vietnam. I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, waterboarding is torture."
John Nichols, The Nation AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 18, 2008.
For starters, he called for the firing of any "petty bureaucrat" who might dissent from the expansion of government powers after 9/11.
Staff, Huffington Post AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 18, 2008.
Eric Holder, a Clinton-ite, is in place to be the first African-American attorney general, Newsweek reports.
Laura Flanders, GRITtv AlterNet: Video. September 17, 2008.
A major breakthrough in prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's case against the president.
Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. May 27, 2008.
In his address to graduates, Attorney General Mukasey's offered a dangerous defense of Yoo.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 14, 2008.
The New York Times reports that the former attorney general can't find a job. That should be the least of his problems.
Patrick Porter, Jurist Legal News and Research AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 3, 2008.
The AG says legislation to curb the constant use of state secret privilege would "result in the harmful disclosure of national security information."
Jon Ponder, Pensito Review AlterNet: Election 2008. January 27, 2008.
Rumor has it he would, but it could also just be Robert Novak making mischief.
Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: PEEK. November 9, 2007.
Howie Klein: This was engineered by Senators Schumer and Feinstein. Whatever Mukasey does wrong should be lain on their doorsteps.
GottaLaff, Brave New Films AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2007.
GottaLaff: Mukasey accepts a politicization of U.S. Attorneys far more extreme than that attempted by Gonzales and Rove.
Joe Sudbay, AMERICAblog AlterNet: PEEK. November 3, 2007.
Joe Sudbay: Chuck Schumer (NY) and Dianne Feinstein (CA), both on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are the culprits.
Ali Frick, AlterNet: Video. November 2, 2007.
Ali Frick: The White House would prefer for Congress to confirm Mukasey now and question him later -- if at all.
Matt Corley, AlterNet: PEEK. October 31, 2007.
Matt Corley: If Mukasey doesn't rebuke waterboarding he looks likely to be rejected by the Judiciary Committee.
Marc Cooper, AlterNet: PEEK. October 30, 2007.
Marc Cooper: "That is about as basic as it gets," Dodd said. "You must obey the law. Everyone must."
Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet: Video. October 19, 2007.
Lindsay Beyerstein: Anything that simulates drowning has got to be torture.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: Video. October 17, 2007.
Weren't Republicans apoplectic when Sen. Dick Durbin said something similar two years ago?
Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research. October 12, 2007.
Bush's insistence that "we don't torture" rings hollow in light of recent Department of Justice memos supporting the harshest techniques the CIA has ever used.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2007.
Steve Benen: Among other things, he's a conservative Republican, playing an active role in Giuliani's nutty presidential campaign.
GottaLaff, AlterNet: PEEK. August 28, 2007.
GottaLaff: It would guarantee a Senate confirmation. It would change the balance of power in the Senate, in favor of the Republicans. And it smells of Karl Rove
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Joshua Holland, AlterNet: Video. May 27, 2007.
Some political parody for your holiday weekend enjoyment.
Marie Cocco, Truthdig. May 18, 2007.
Connect the Justice Department dots and you see an insidious effort to corrupt the American electoral system. It's Watergate without the break-in or the bagmen.
Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig. May 2, 2007.
A look at one of the real reasons eight U.S. attorneys were fired -- the Republican effort to stop voter registration campaigns in poor neighborhoods.
Glenn W. Smith, AlterNet. March 14, 2007.
Alberto Gonzales is trying to explain away explosive revelations in the U.S. attorney scandal by using the "aw, shucks," or "I didn't know" defense that the late Kenneth Lay of Enron so famously used.
