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Editorial - The Former Attorney General’s Legal Bills
nytimes.com - 11/21/2008
Editorial - The Former Attorney General’s Legal Bills
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The Justice Department has reportedly agreed to hire a private attorney to represent Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, in a federal lawsuit that accuses him of politicized hiring. It is galling to think that Mr. Gonzales, whose department trampled over the rights of so many people, ...

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Brilliant at Breakfast:  Your tax dollars at work

WTF Is It Now?!?:  SS, DD

politico.com - 11/25/2008
Leahy, Conyers want info on DOJ paying Gonzales' legal bills
— politico.com — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) want Attorney General Michael Mukasey to give them the details on how much the Justice Department is spending to defend ... (more) Leahy, Conyers want info on DOJ paying Gonzales' legal bills

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Your tax dollars at work
Brilliant at Breakfast — How the hell did I miss this? I guess when you sit at the PC at 5 AM because you have to be out of the house by 7:30 for work, you're not at your sharpest. First, we paid to bail out AIG. Then we paid to bail out the banks. We can't bail out companies that actually make something, but we can pay for Alberto Gonzales' defense attorney. Yes, really: The Justice Department has reportedly agreed to hire a private attorney to represent Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, in a federal lawsuit that accuses him of politicized hiring. It is ...

SS, DD
WTF Is It Now?!? — Il DuceBag's latest pet AG continues former pet AG's penchant for screwing the populace -- by forcing upon us the tab for defending Constitution-mangler/torturer Alberto Gonzales. In a stunningly braindead move reminiscent of making a rape victim pay for her own rape kit, Attorney General and Bush toady Michael Mukasey OKed the use of taxpayer bucks to cover the legal bills of the ethically-deprived and disastrously inept former attorney general. Which were incurred by his fucking-over of taxpayers. ...

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