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Subpoena For Karl Rove! Subpoena For Karl Rove!

Thu, 22 May 2008 20:45:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If he shows, he better take the oath. If he even has a wrinkle in his suit as far as legal actions, I hope they hang him high and upside down to rot in the sun with gaffe hook through his ankle.

Clip Source: ap.google.com

House subpoenas Karl Rove

The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday subpoenaed former White House top political adviser Karl Rove to testify about whether the White House improperly meddled with the Justice Department.

Accusations of politics influencing decisions at the department led to last year's resignation of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

The subpoena issued Thursday orders Rove to testify before the House panel on July 10. He is expected to face questions about the White House's role in firing nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 and the prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat.

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers had negotiated with Rove's attorneys for more than a year over whether the former top aide to President Bush would testify voluntarily.

Neither Rove nor his attorney, Robert Luskin, could be immediately reached for comment.

American Bar Association Makes It Clear

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:29:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gonzales is NEWSMAKER of the year, NOT Lawyer of the Year.

Clip Source: www.abanet.org

Dec. 14, 2007 -- The ABA Journal posted an article titled “Lawyers of the Year 2007 & 2008” on ABA Journal.com, on Dec. 12, 2007. The article defined that term as the year’s biggest legal newsmaker, identifying former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as the major newsmaker of 2007. The Journal regrets that we did not make this theme clear.

We appreciate the feedback we’ve received, and we’re acting on it. So that there can be no confusion, the term “Lawyers of the Year” has been changed in the headline and story to “Newsmakers of the Year.” The story is otherwise unchanged from its original version.

Librarian Calls Out AG Gonzales For Disinformation

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:17:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is a very dark, disturbed, and untrustworthy administration. IMPEACH!!!!

Clip Source: www.courant.com

When the USA Patriot Act was being reauthorized in 2005, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales claimed that not one single abuse of the "national security letters" provision had been reported.

I was one of four library colleagues who challenged an NSL in the courts around the time of its reauthorization. We were under a gag order because of the nondisclosure provision of the NSL section of the Patriot Act. This happened even though a judge with high-level security clearance had declared that there was no risk in identifying us as recipients of an NSL.

We were therefore not allowed to testify to Congress about our experience with the letters - which seek information, without court review, on people like library users.

It is more than irksome to now discover that the attorney general was giving Congress false information - at the same time that we recipients of NSLs were not allowed to express our concerns.

we were prohibited from speaking

until after the Patriot Act was reauthorized

Tags: gonzales, patriot act, bush

GOP Scandals Illustrated - A Scorecard To Keep 'Em Straight

Sat, 12 May 2007 20:24:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More than one can shake a proverbial stick at.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

A guide to GOP scandals.

Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank With Nepotism

Federal Employees in the Department of Education With Corporate Ties

Bushies in the Election Assistance Commission With Fraud

Partisan Hacks in the Press With Bought Agendas

Bernard Kerik in the Department of Homeland Security With the Nanny … and the Publisher … and the Mob …

Karl Rove in the White House With the Delete Key

Lester Crawford in the Food and Drug Administration With Tainted Stocks

Bushies in NASA With the Weird Science

The GOP Leadership in Congress With Dirty Money

Bored Soldiers in Iraq With the Cameras

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Eavesdroppers at the National Security Agency With the Wiretaps

Bureaucrats at Walter Reed With Cockroaches

Jack Abramoff on K Street With the Wallet

Steven Griles in the Department of the Interior With the "Special Relationship"

Scooter Libby in the White House With the Faulty Memory

Alberto Gonzales in the Justice Department With the Pink Slips

John Doolittle in Congress With the Campaign Donations

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Tags: bush administration, scandal, gop, republicans

Gonzales Fires Her, Peers Award Her Service

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:13:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Impeach and cleanse, please.

Clip Source: nctimes.com

Carol Lam, one of eight former U.S. attorneys across the country whose dismissals have ignited a political firestorm and calls for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, has been named outstanding attorney of the year by the San Diego County Bar Association, the organization announced Wednesday afternoon.

Andy Albert, the association's immediate past president, said the decision to give Lam what the association calls its "most prestigious" award was not a political one.

A former top official at the Justice Department testified to Congress in March that Lam was asked to resign because of a problem with her immigration prosecutions and not because her office pursued a political corruption case that resulted in a guilty plea and federal prison sentence for now-disgraced former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a Republican.

Tags: bush administration, gonzales, attorney general

Subpoenas & Immunity Approved - "When The Whip Comes Down"

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:12:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is no disinfectant quite so powerful as sunshine and fresh air.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

In rapid succession, congressional committees Wednesday ramped up their investigations of the Bush administration by approving a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and granting immunity to a former key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

By 21-10, the House oversight committee voted to issue a subpoena to Rice to compel her story on the Bush administration's claim, now discredited, that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa.

Moments earlier in the committee chamber next door, the House Judiciary Committee voted 32-6 to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, Gonzales' White House liaison, for her testimony on why the administration fired eight federal prosecutors. The panel also unanimously approved — but did not issue — a subpoena to compel her to appear.

Simultaneously across Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved — but did not issue — a subpoena on the prosecutors' matter to Sara Taylor, deputy to presidential adviser Karl Rove.

Tags: rice, bush administration, gonzales, goodling, rove

Secret GOP WH Email & OH Election Results - Same Internet Server

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:31:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now is the time to regain control of our republic. IMPEACH BUSH let the prosecution's chips fall where they may for all his minions, from Rove on down.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on Election Night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election?

yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website -- which gave the world the presidential election results -- was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's firing of eight federal prosecutors.

This high-tech system used to count and report the 2004 presidential vote- from server-hosting contracts, to software-writing services, to remote-access capability, to the actual server usage logs themselves -- must be added to the growing congressional investigations.

Tags: bush, bush administration, rove, gop, attorney general, gonzales, elections, rnc, corruption

A Letter From Anonymous Justice Dept. Employees

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:39:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "When division personnel staff later compared the remaining interviewees with the candidates struck form the list, one common denominator appeared repeatedly: most of those struck form the list had interned for a Hill Democrat, clerked for a Democratic judge, worked for a “liberal” cause, or otherwise appeared to have “liberal” leanings. Summa cum laude graduates of both Yale and Harvard were rejected for interviews."

Follow link for the entire thrust of the letter. Not enough in 1000 characters to give the full value.

Clip Source: www.speaker.gov

Today the House and Senate Judiciary Committees received a letter from anonymous Justice Department employees concerning widespread politicization at the Justice Department

Many of us in the Department of Justice have been watching with admiration as you expose the overly political firing of United States Attorneys and hope that you can help in returning our beloved Department to of establishing justice in the United States. We are equally concerned, however, about the politicizing of the non-political ranks of Justice employees, offices which are consistently and methodically being eroded by partisan politics.

The letter then goes on to describe confusion and consternation within the divisions, and ultimately a meeting that was demanded by staff, in which Michael Ellston, Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, “was offensive to the point of insulting” in addressing the concerns.

Tags: gonzales, justice, department, bush, politics

Alberto Gonzales: LIAR!

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:39:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "... and the band played on."

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Gonzales Contradicts His Own Testimony

Recently Released E-Mails Show Attorney General's Involvement in Attorney Firing Talks

April 16, 2007 — - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' assertion that he was not involved in identifying the eight U.S. attorneys who were asked to resign last year is at odds with a recently released internal Department of Justice e-mail, ABC News has learned.

That e-mail said that Gonzales supported firing one federal prosecutor six months before she was asked to leave.

Gonzales has insisted he left those decisions to his staff, but ABC News has learned he was so concerned about U.S. attorney Carol Lam's lackluster record on immigration enforcement in San Diego that he supported firing her months before she was dismissed, according to a newly released e-mail from his former chief of staff.

e-mail, which came from Gonzales aide Kyle Sampson, appeared to contradict the prepared written testimony Gonzales submitted to Congress over the weekend

Tags: gonzales, attorney gneral, bush administration

Gingrich: Gonzales Should Consider Resignation

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:41:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When this Republican loon calls it, it really is in the shit-hole. Now, if only Gingrich would understand what a fool he is himself and call it a day.

Clip Source: hosted.ap.org

Gingrich: AG should consider resigning

Joining a growing list of Republicans, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should consider resigning. The possible presidential candidate said the botched firing of U.S. attorneys has destroyed Gonzales' credibility as the nation's top law enforcer.

"I think the country, in fact, would be much better served to have a new team at the Justice Department, across the board," Gingrich said. "I cannot imagine how he is going to be effective for the rest of this administration. ... They're going to be involved in endless hearings."

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who is helping lead the investigation into the firing of eight federal prosecutors, said Gingrich's comments pointed to building bipartisan support for a new attorney general.

Tags: attorney general, gonzales, bush, bush administration

US Attorney Scandal Cost = $100 Million Due To Inept Appointee

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:14:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Why there is a public defender involved with a case that has a $100,000,000 restitution potential, I can't understand, but we can be sure that this public defender doesn't make near the cash the US Attorney whose mistake he caught does.

Clip Source: www.buzzflash.com

A judge ruled Wednesday that an epic blunder by federal prosecutors in the largest tax prosecution ever means that the treasury can't recoup at least $100 million in restitution.

Telecommunications entrepreneur Walter Anderson pled guilty to tax evasion, but U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said the binding plea agreement listed the wrong statute. This problem could have been overcome had prosecutors not failed to include any discussion of probation as is routine in such deals.

Because of the technicality, Judge Friedman said, "I've come to the conclusion, very reluctantly, that I have no authority to order restitution. . . . This is a very poorly drafted agreement."

The case was prosecuted by the office of the interim U.S. Attorney for D.C., Jeffrey A. Taylor. Taylor was appointed directly by Attorney General Gonzales without Senate confirmation in November 2006 under a provision of the Patriot Act that Congress has recently voted to reverse.

Tags: bush, bush administration, gonzales, us attorney, scandal, gop, republican, tax, taxpayer

Rush Plays The Gonzales Race Card

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:29:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Freedom is the price of freedom, and Limbaugh makes for a very expensive bill. This man has no value in any reasonable political conversation.

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

On the March 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, "the first Hispanic-American attorney general -- a minority" is "under fire by white liberal racists in the Senate." In fact, Gonzales' handling of the U.S. attorney firings has been criticized by lawmakers of both parties, and his actions have been censured by the Senate's only African-American and by one of its three Hispanic members.

In a March 22 CNN.com commentary, nationally syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. made a similar claim about members of Congress who have called for Gonzales' resignation, describing them as a "lynch mob" led by "white liberals" that also includes "immigrant-baiting members of Congress -- Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado." Navarrette wrote:

Tags: us attorney, gonzales, limbaugh, racism, idiot

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Calls for Impeachment

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:40:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Further crumbling of the conservative base.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Sec. of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan. A former WSJ editor and columnist; Business Week and Investor's Business Daily columnist, he is highly regarded internationally in both political and economic circles.

Clip Source: vdare.com

While serving as President Bush’s White House lawyer, Alberto Gonzales advised Bush that the president’s war time powers permitted Bush to ignore the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and to use the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on US citizens without obtaining warrants from the FISA court as required by law. Under an order signed by Bush in 2002, NSA illegally spied on Americans without warrants.

By spying on Americans without obtaining warrants, Bush committed felonies under FISA. Moreover, there is strong, indeed overwhelming, evidence that justice was obstructed when Bush and Gonzales blocked a 2006 Justice Department investigation into whether Gonzales acted properly as Attorney General in approving and overseeing the Bush administration’s program of spying on US citizens.

Impeachments of Bush, Cheney, and Gonzales, followed by felony indictments and trials are imperative if the rule of law in the United States is to be preserved.

Tags: bush, bush administration, gonzales, impeachment