The Associated Press A Democratic House leader asked presidential counsel Fred Fielding on Thursday to turn over a report first requested three months ago about the White House’s problems with lost e-mail. In a letter to Fielding, Rep. Henry Waxman set a Sept. 10 deadline for the White House to turn over information about the…
jurist.law.pitt.edu by Alexis Unkovic [JURIST] The US Department of Justice has begun an internal inquiry to determine whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] may have perjured himself [JURIST report] in testimony before Congress, DOJ Inspector General Glenn A. Fine [official profile] said Thursday. In a letter [PDF text] dated August 16,…
History Will Not Absolve Us, Nat Hentoff — If and when there’s the equivalent of an international Nuremberg trial for the American perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Guantanamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the CIA’s secret prisons, there will be mounds of evidence available from documented international reports by human-rights organizations, including an arm of the…
aclu.org The E-mail Newsletter of the ACLU Gonzales Resignation Does Not Pardon President’s Abuse of Power While the departure of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, one of the worst attorneys general in our nation’s history, certainly gives all of those who cherish freedom and justice something to celebrate, our work is far from over. Leaders…
