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A Washington Post report says the Bush administration broke its promise to FISA court judges. Did Alberto Gonzales lie to Congress?
By Tim Grieve
February 9, 2006
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Alberto Gonzales' bizarre defense of Bush's illegal domestic spying revealed him to have unsuspected imaginative gifts.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 9, 2006
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The attorney general says the U.S. shouldn't keep reminding al-Qaida that it's trying to monitor its calls.
By Tim Grieve
February 7, 2006
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If the attorney general believes there are limits on the president's power as commander in chief, it's not at all clear what those are.
By Tim Grieve
February 7, 2006
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The attorney general defended warrantless spying with yet more doublespeak, but the Senate is homing in on Bush's dangerous abuse of power.
By Walter Shapiro
February 7, 2006
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Feingold and Gonzales go back and forth before a Republican senator gets to the heart of the warrantless spying problem.
By Tim Grieve
February 6, 2006
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The White House says it's right on the spying issue. But what if it's wrong?
By Tim Grieve
February 6, 2006
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The Senate Judicary Committee chairman refuses to make Alberto Gonzales swear to tell the truth.
By Tim Grieve
February 6, 2006
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The attorney general testifies today on the Bush administration's warrantless spying program.
By Tim Grieve
February 6, 2006
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Did the attorney general lie to the Senate about Bush's warrantless spying program?
By Tim Grieve
January 31, 2006
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In trying to justify Bush's warrantless spying, his defenders are distorting the facts about Clinton and due process of the law.
By Joe Conason
December 23, 2005
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If the Bush administraiton can help itself to warrantless wiretapping, why does it need the authority renewal of the Patriot Act would provide?
By Tim Grieve
December 21, 2005
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The attorney general warns of dire consequences if the Patriot Act expires at the end of the year. It doesn't have to.
By Tim Grieve
December 21, 2005
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The attorney general insisted it wasn't so. He was wrong.
By Tim Grieve
December 21, 2005
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The legal defense begins, and it is breathtaking.
By Tim Grieve
December 19, 2005
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The White House avoids a Supreme Court showdown by charging Jose Padilla with a crime -- but not the one for which he has been held.
By Tim Grieve
November 22, 2005
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Remember how she was meticulous, detail-oriented and unchanging? Never mind.
By Tim Grieve
October 20, 2005
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Associate Justice Alberto Gonzales? The right likes the idea of a minority justice, just not this one.
By T.G.
September 7, 2005
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Entering the Supreme Court spin zone, the Senate minority leader tweaks the religious right for going ballistic over a nomination that hasn't happened yet.
By Tim Grieve
July 6, 2005
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The press says that a vacancy on the Supreme Court gives George W. Bush a chance to define himself. Pardon us for thinking that moment passed a long time ago.
By Tim Grieve
July 5, 2005
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Cloaked in myopic self-righteousness, the Bush administration is trying to make its gulag problem disappear by attacking Amnesty International. This isn't just blind and arrogant, it's harming the national interest.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 1, 2005
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If the GOP applied the same ethical tests to Priscilla Owen that its predecessors used to disqualify a liberal judge in 1968, she'd have to withdraw her nomination.
By Joe Conason
May 20, 2005
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The looming filibuster showdown is likely to be triggered by Priscilla Owen, who was accused of judicial activism by an unlikely foe -- Alberto Gonzales.
By Eric Boehlert
May 3, 2005
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The exoneration of top brass in the Abu Ghraib scandal makes a mockery of our system.
By Joe Conason
April 29, 2005
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The religious right worked itself into a righteous fury at "Justice Sunday," using the stalemate over judges to tar Democrats as enemies of God.
By Michelle Goldberg
April 25, 2005