lubbockonline.com - 7/14/2009
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Story last updated at 7/14/2009 - 2:41 am PDF: Gonzales: one-year offer with Texas Tech While inviting embattled former attorney general Alberto Gonzales to join Texas Tech's faculty has raised more than a few eyebrows, university officials said Monday there is no reason ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/11/2009
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Another great nugget from that just-released inspector generals'
report on surveillance... Check out the amazing 2004 letter
from Alberto Gonzales, at the time the White House counsel, to then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who had raised ...
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WH Counsel Gonzo To DOJ: When We Said We Cared About ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 7/10/2009
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com —
Today's IG Report on illegal wiretapping answers another
previously unanswered question: who called Mrs. Ashcroft to tell
her Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales were coming to the ICU ward to rough of John Ashcroft. George Bush did so himself. From ...
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George Bush Personally Sent Card, Gonzales to Thug Up ...
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Texas Tech Administrators Brush Aside Outcry Over Gonzales Hiring, Defend $100,000 Salary
Think Progress —
... One point of contention is the former attorney general’s salary. Gonzales, a visiting professor, will be earning $100,000 for the year — which is approximately what full professors make — in addition to any speaking and mediation fees he does for outside work. Tech Provost Bob Smith has defended the pay, saying that it’s appropriate for someone “with a national presence and a long list of accomplishments.” Texas Tech alumni and high school government teacher David Ring said that making $100,000 “to teach one section of no more than 15 ...
Texas Tech Administrators Brush Aside Outcry Over Gonzales Hiring, Defend $100,000 Salary
The Hollywood Liberal —
... “: By leaving Capitol Hill in disgrace, Gonzales did not fulfill his duty as attorney general, and he did not reach his full potential as a role model for minorities. So why hire him? This trumps hiring a fiery coach from Indiana known for tossing a chair across a basketball court. Gonzales is notoriously accused of much more serious problems. One point of contention is the former attorney general’s salary. Gonzales, a visiting professor, will be earning $100,000 for the year — which is approximately what full professors make — in addition to any speaking and mediation fees he ...
Texas Tech Faculty Circulate Petition Protesting Gonzales
Think Progress —
... calling Gonzales’ hiring “objectionable.” They charge that Gonzales is nothing more than a “celebrity hire” who won’t be worth his $100,000 salary: ...
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lubbockonline.com 7/25/2009 — Saturday, July 25, 2009 Story last updated at 7/25/2009 - 3:32 am First appeared on lubbockonline.com : 4:24 p.m. Friday. TEXAS TECH/ More than 40 faculty members sign petition against former AG More than 40 Texas Tech professors have objected in a ...
Alberto Gonzales Finds A Job
swampland.blogs.time.com 7/9/2009 — The ranks of the nation's unemployed have dropped by one. As we had noted earlier in this space, at least one former Attorney General had been having trouble finding work in the legal profession.
Now, the Austin American-Statesman tells us that ...
News: Hiring Coup or Tainted Hire?
insidehighered.com 7/14/2009 — On August 1, Alberto Gonzales will start working at Texas Tech University, where he will teach a seminar in political science while helping the university (and Angelo State University) recruit and retain first generation college students. In ...
Alberto Gonzales lands a teaching position at Texas Tech.
thinkprogress.org 7/7/2009 — Life has been tough for Alberto Gonzales since he stepped down as President Bush’s attorney general. He was, for a while, “ unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster.” Gonzales blamed his bad luck on the ...
Texas Tech Announces Gonzales Hire
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 7/8/2009 — Texas Tech has officially announced the hiring of Alberto Gonzales.
The press release , which says Gonzales will work as both a recruiter and teach a junior-level course on "contemporary issues in the executive branch," makes no mention of Gonzo's ...
Gonzales hiring brings criticism to Texas Tech - Opinions
media.www.dailytoreador.com 7/14/2009 — He echoed those thoughts in an interview with The DT on Tuesday, saying he served during one of the toughest periods America ever has endured after the 9/11 attacks. The thought process behind hiring Gonzales was his rise through the hierarchy of ...
Lame Questions for Alberto Gonzales. Cheesy, Whiny Answers
themoderatevoice.com 8/9/2009 —
I enjoy Deborah Solomon’s weekly interviews (”Questions For…”) in The New York Times Magazine, a column that has appeared in the Times’ weekend magazine since 2003.
Although her interview techniques and the published results of her interviews have come under ...
Ex-AG Gonzales lands Texas Tech job
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 7/8/2009 — Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has taken a job at Texas Tech University.
(CNN) — Nearly two years after being pushed out of office by a scandal surrounding the firing of federal prosecutors, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ...
Why Won't Gonzales Deny He Killed Harman-AIPAC Probe?
motherjones.com 4/22/2009 — If you had been falsely accused of doing something outrageous, wouldn't you declare you had done no such thing?
Everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence--at least in a courtroom--but it is certainly suspicious that former Attorney General ...
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