thinkprogress.org - 12/2/2008
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Yesterday, a Texas judge dismissed indictments brought against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused the two men of holding responsibility for prisoner abuse at privately-run federal prisons in the ...
Cheney, Gonzales Trial Prosecutor Yells At Judge
huffingtonpost.com 11/21/2008 — RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel ...
Vice President Cheney and former Attorney General Gonzales indicted.
thinkprogress.org 11/19/2008 — A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers:
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Cheney, Gonzales Indicted
talkleft.com 11/19/2008 — This is just too fun: Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under ...
Ex-AG Gonzales: 'I Should Have Been More Engaged'
npr.org 1/26/2009 — Tell Me More , January 26, 2009 Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday rejected critics' charges that he allowed the Justice Department to become politicized under his watch. Gonzales told host Michel Martin of NPR's Tell Me More that he ...
Cheney, Gonzales Arraignment Friday
talkleft.com 11/21/2008 — They have a strange way of doing things in Texas, at least in Willacy County where the prosecutor persuaded a grand jury to indict Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales. Usually the indicted person has to be hauled in front of a magistrate for an ...
Gonzales writing book on years in Bush administration
statesman.com 1/8/2009 — PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION Gonzales writing book on years in Bush administration Former attorney general says he wants to set record straight, head home to Texas. By Ken Herman WASHINGTON BUREAU Thursday, January 08, 2009 McLEAN, Va. Former Attorney ...
"I Don't Recall Remembering" - The Alberto Gonzales Story
perrspectives.com 12/31/2008 — During April 2007 Senate testimony about his role in the purge of U.S. attorneys, Alberto Gonzales famously explained, "that I don't recall remembering." Now comes word that the former Attorney General is writing a tell-nothing memoir designed to ...
Leahy, Conyers want info on DOJ paying Gonzales' legal bills
politico.com 11/25/2008 — 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 ...
Texas grand jury indicts Cheney, Gonzales of crime
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reuters.com 11/19/2008 — HOUSTON (Reuters) - A grand jury in South Texas indicted U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday for "organized criminal activity" related to alleged abuse of inmates in private prisons. The indictment ...
Obama Announces National Security Team —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/1/2008
President-elect Barack Obama is choosing loyal friends and one-time foes to guide his wartime foreign policy decisions. Here, the full text of the news release.
CHICAGO President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden ...
Obama Names National Security Team —
Wash Post Obama Administration 12/2/2008
President-elect Barack Obama's high-powered national security team, introduced yesterday at a Chicago news conference, faces the challenge of managing two wars and various ongoing foreign policy crises even as it helps the president-elect shape what ...
Agenda: Meeting of Brotherly Love? —
First Read 12/2/2008
”When President-elect Barack Obama arrives at Philadelphia's Independence Hall today to meet with the nation's governors, the main question will be not whether he will deliver fast fiscal relief to the states, but how much?” the Washington Post ...
Mukasey discusses Mumbai, Guantanamo —
First Read 12/3/2008
From NBC's Pete Williams Attorney General Michael Mukasey , meeting with reporters for the first time since he collapsed while delivering a speech two weeks ago, said, "I got down to the last paragraph of my speech, and the lights went out."
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