Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 10, 2008. News that the Bush administration threw out the Fourth Amendment after 9/11 is a sobering reminder of the lawlessness of its spying program.
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."
Steve Czajkowski, Jurist Legal News and Research AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 18, 2008. The Attorney General claims to have a personal disagreement with seeking the death penalty against the Gitmo prisoners.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. March 8, 2008. The attorney general's last-ditch attempt to preserve our federal crack cocaine sentencing guidelines was pure "War on Drugs" propaganda.
GottaLaff, Cliff Schecter's Blog AlterNet: PEEK. March 1, 2008. So can I refuse subpoenas too? Not that I've ever been subpoenaed, or would be, should be, could be, shall be, or expect to be subpoenaed...
Aziz Huq, Middle East Online. February 14, 2008. The Bush Administration is secretly ensuring that the misbegotten policies of the past eight years will haunt the next President.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. February 6, 2008. Despite its hedging, the White House made clear today it very well may commit illegal torture again.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. January 30, 2008. The Attorney General admits he might "feel" waterboarding is torture if he went through it, but calls the matter "unresolved."
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 3, 2007. Sam Stein: Rep. Waxman notes that "White House objections are preventing Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald from disclosing key information to investigating officials."
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2007. Amanda Terkel: Gonzales claimed the law was his "lodestar", but he must have forgotten it while he was in office.
Max Follmer, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. November 15, 2007. Max Follmer: "I'm concerned that party employees don't want to hear from party members," says Rick Jacobs of the Courage Campaign.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 14, 2007. Faiz Shakir: High professional standards were once a threat to the Gonzales-led DoJ. Hopefully, that tide is turning.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 13, 2007. Satyam Khanna: The Army wants to “eliminate any confusion that may have arisen as a result of recent public discourse on the subject.”
Max Follmer, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. November 13, 2007. Max Follmer: A coalition of progressive Democrats upset with Feinstein's controversial votes will ask the California Democratic Party to censure her.
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.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. November 7, 2007. If a U.S. citizen, soldier or official were waterboarded somewhere overseas, would Americans hesitate for a moment to call it torture?
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. November 5, 2007. Daviel Levin, the former U.S. Acting Assistant Attorney General, who was himself waterboarded to determine whether or not the act constituted torture made you into a liar Mr. Bush."
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.
