Attorney General

The real reason Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich The real reason Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich

During Eric Holder's confirmation hearing, Arlen Specter scolded the attorney general-designate, but no one mentioned Israeli pressure.
By Joe Conason Jan 16, 2009

  • Freeh: Holder "used" by Clinton in Rich pardon

    While he largely praised Attorney General-designate Eric Holder, Former FBI Director Louis Freeh also criticized his conduct during the pardon process.
    By Vincent Rossmeier January 16, 2009

  • The sad decline of Michael Mukasey

    His reputation for integrity was meant to restore credibility to the Justice Department. Instead, his remarks on waterboarding show that he, like Alberto Gonzales, has let the White House call the shots.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 1, 2007

  • The dismal legacy of Bush's top yes man

    Alberto Gonzales' successor will face a heckuva job rectifying the damage the attorney general did to American justice.
    By David Cole August 28, 2007

  • Why did Gonzales resign?

    Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 27, 2007

  • Mukasey checks out of hospital

    The attorney general, who collapsed while giving a speech on Thursday night, says he's feeling fine and that tests came back with good results.
    By Alex Koppelman November 21, 2008

  • Report: Holder will get attorney general nod

    Newsweek reports that Barack Obama has offered Eric Holder, a former deputy attorney general, the job; Holder would be the first African American to lead the DOJ.
    By Alex Koppelman November 18, 2008

  • Senate confirms Mukasey

    Six Democrats defect, making the waterboarding equivocator America's top lawyer.
    November 9, 2007

  • The attorney general's "tremendous credibility problem"

    Republicans and Democrats alike pummeled Alberto Gonzales in a daylong hearing that left the future of his job in doubt.
    By Michael Scherer April 20, 2007

  • The U.S. attorneys scandal gets dirty

    As Congress prepares to grill Alberto Gonzales, Salon has uncovered another partisan issue connected to the mass firings: Pornography.
    By Mark Follman April 19, 2007

  • All roads lead to Rove

    The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.
    By Sidney Blumenthal March 15, 2007

  • Why we should make attorney general an elective office

    Like Watergate, the unfolding U.S. attorneys scandal proves that it's dangerous for the nation's chief law enforcement officer to be an appointed crony of the president.
    By Garrett Epps March 9, 2007

  • The facilitator

    When Alberto Gonzales briefed George W. Bush on the cases of Texas death row inmates up for clemency, his memos were so shabby they seemed intended solely to make it easy for Bush to send prisoners to their deaths.
    By Alan Berlow January 6, 2005

  • Less safe, less free

    John Ashcroft's war on terrorism has done enormous damage to our liberties -- and he has few tangible results to show for it.
    By David Cole November 19, 2004

  • Ashcroft in bondage

    An interview with S/M photographer Barbara Nitke about her lawsuit against the attorney general, her art, and the thousand-yard stare.
    By David Bowman July 22, 2002

  • Dems fold on Ashcroft

    By Alicia Montgomery
    February 5, 2001

  • Round 2: Ashcroft wins over a Democrat

    Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein.
    By Alicia Montgomery January 18, 2001

  • Get Ronnie White, Round 2

    In their battle for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft, Republicans are once again attacking the Missouri Supreme Court justice whose federal judgeship Ashcroft scuttled.
    By Eric Boehlert January 11, 2001

  • John Ashcroft's big mistake

    He denied Ronnie White a federal judgeship for being soft on crime, when his real grudge was against his pro-choice politics -- and the move cost him his Senate seat.
    By Eric Boehlert January 8, 2001

  • Ashcroft whistles Dixie

    Bush's attorney general nominee is only the latest conservative lawmaker caught pandering to fans of the Confederacy in a tiny but powerful Southern journal.
    By Alicia Montgomery January 3, 2001

  • "A clear and present danger to American women"

    Pro-choice activists criticize the appointment of conservative John Ashcroft as the Bush administration's attorney general.
    By Daryl Lindsey December 22, 2000

  • Elian's closing chapter?

    A legal expert says the Cuban boy's legal saga is slowly winding down.
    By Daryl Lindsey June 2, 2000

  • Letting go of Thomas

    The baby's abuser is still uncharged, but the issue of his death -- in surrender or at the end of painful medical heroics -- finally reaches the court.
    By Beth Broeker April 25, 2000

  • Reno's redemption

    The attorney general robs Little Havana of its most potent symbol and redeems her last months in office.
    By Bruce Shapiro April 22, 2000

  • "It reads like a novel"

    Judge Jackson's findings are music to prosecutors' ears -- but Microsoft says it's guilty of nothing more than embodying "the most basic American values."
    By Janelle Brown November 6, 1999
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