TPM Wins Journalism Prize
Whilst perusing Talking Points Memo earlier, I noted that Josh Marshall and company had won the George Polk award. Having never heard of said prize and casually presuming that it was in some sort of blog-specific category, I didn't bother to click through. Will Bunch's post, "A landmark day for bloggers -- and the future of journalism," highlighted at ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 19, 2008 13:53
Mukasey Next Attorney General
Michael Mukasey, a respected retired judge without close ties to the Bush Administration, will be nominated as the next Attorney General. Barring some dramatic revelation, he's expected to sail to easy confirmation. President Bush has decided to nominate Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York who has presided over some high-profile terrorism trials, as his next attorney ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 17, 2007 07:01
Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General
Reuters Breaking News: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned from office, an official confirmed on Monday. The Justice Department refused to comment on Gonzales' departure but has scheduled a press conference for 10:30 a.m. EDT. Good news, if long overdue. Oddly, President Bush not only didn't push this move on Gonzales but apparently tried to talk him out of it, at ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 27, 2007 08:41
The Real Crime is What’s Legal
Congressmen running for re-election routinely tout all the money they've brought to the district and presidents love to personally hand out disaster relief funds during election season. While unseemly, that's just the way the game is played. Marisa Taylor and Kevin Hall report that something a little more fishy has been going on, though, in recent years: Top Commerce ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 18, 2007 08:54
Gonzales Could Become Chief Executioner
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is about to be put in charge of the death penalty at the state level. After all, he's done such a bang-up job running the Justice Department! The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 14, 2007 18:08
Specter Says Gonzales a ‘Wily Witness’
Arlen Specter says that Alberto Gonzales was intentionally misleading in his testimony before the Senate on the U.S. Attorney firings but that he was merely a "wily witness" rather than a perjurer. TPM's Paul Kiel has details: Reading from a Supreme Court opinion on the statute of perjury, which said that a witness cannot be convicted of perjury simply because he ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 2, 2007 13:35
Gonzales Target of Perjury Probe
As the sorry spectacle of the investigation into the firing of a dozen U.S. Attorneys for political purposes has unfolded, it's been rather clear that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been both an incompetent administrator of his Department and a really bad liar, doing a lousy job of covering up something that almost surely didn't need to be covered up. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 26, 2007 09:07
Bush Won’t Enforce Contempt of Congress
The Bush Administration announced yesterday it will ignore demands from Congress to issue contempt indictments for officials the president has ordered not to testify. Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein report on the front page of today's WaPo: Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 20, 2007 11:41
Siegelman and Selective Prosecution
A NYT editorial calls for an investigation into the successful prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. It is extremely disturbing that Don Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama, was hauled off to jail this week. There is reason to believe his prosecution may have been a political hit, intended to take out the state’s most prominent Democrat, a serious ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 30, 2007 11:01
More on the USAs and the Voter Fraud Question
Cross-posted from PoliBlog: Via the LAT, Minnesota case fits pattern in U.S. attorneys flap:A hint at why Heffelfinger's name was on termination lists that Justice Department officials and Bush political strategists put together emerged when Monica M. Goodling, the department's former White House liaison, testified last week before the House Judiciary Committee about the firings. Goodling said she had heard Heffelfinger criticized ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 31, 2007 10:55
