Alberto Gonzales

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  • Lying about spying?

    A Washington Post report says the Bush administration broke its promise to FISA court judges. Did Alberto Gonzales lie to Congress?
  • Words by Gonzales, logic by Kafka

    Alberto Gonzales' bizarre defense of Bush's illegal domestic spying revealed him to have unsuspected imaginative gifts.
  • Alberto Gonzales and the forgetful terrorists

    The attorney general says the U.S. shouldn't keep reminding al-Qaida that it's trying to monitor its calls.
  • What Alberto Gonzales wouldn't say

    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.
  • Surveilling Gonzales

    The attorney general defended warrantless spying with yet more doublespeak, but the Senate is homing in on Bush's dangerous abuse of power.
  • Spying, torture -- is it all hypothetical?

    Feingold and Gonzales go back and forth before a Republican senator gets to the heart of the warrantless spying problem.
  • The question Gonzales won't answer

    The White House says it's right on the spying issue. But what if it's wrong?
  • Specter: Strong words, but no oath

    The Senate Judicary Committee chairman refuses to make Alberto Gonzales swear to tell the truth.
  • Questions for Alberto Gonzales

    The attorney general testifies today on the Bush administration's warrantless spying program.
  • Enough about SOTU: How about some answers from Alberto Gonzales?

    Did the attorney general lie to the Senate about Bush's warrantless spying program?
  • Excuses, excuses

    In trying to justify Bush's warrantless spying, his defenders are distorting the facts about Clinton and due process of the law.
  • Who needs the Patriot Act, anyway?

    If the Bush administraiton can help itself to warrantless wiretapping, why does it need the authority renewal of the Patriot Act would provide?
  • Patriot games

    The attorney general warns of dire consequences if the Patriot Act expires at the end of the year. It doesn't have to.
  • Warrantless spying reached domestic calls, too

    The attorney general insisted it wasn't so. He was wrong.
  • Gonzales: Bush had "inherent" authority to violate spying law

    The legal defense begins, and it is breathtaking.
  • On Jose Padilla, a blink and a bait-and-switch

    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.
  • Harriet Miers talking points: Are there any left?

    Remember how she was meticulous, detail-oriented and unchanging? Never mind.
  • Supreme Court watch: The president jokes, the right panics

    Associate Justice Alberto Gonzales? The right likes the idea of a minority justice, just not this one.
  • Harry Reid: Gonzales is "qualified"

    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.
  • The president's "defining" moment

    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.
  • See no evil

    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.
  • Fortas who?

    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.
  • The woman who could detonate the "nuclear option"

    The looming filibuster showdown is likely to be triggered by Priscilla Owen, who was accused of judicial activism by an unlikely foe -- Alberto Gonzales.
  • Rogue officialdom

    The exoneration of top brass in the Abu Ghraib scandal makes a mockery of our system.
  • The right to impose Christianity

    The religious right worked itself into a righteous fury at "Justice Sunday," using the stalemate over judges to tar Democrats as enemies of God.
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