The Associated Press The American Civil Liberties Union renewed its challenge Thursday against the Bush administration’s filing of secret materials to a federal appeals court that will rule on its warrantless surveillance program. The government has filed the papers with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the ACLU wants those documents unsealed. The…
By Dan Eggen, Washington Post The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales sought to influence the testimony of a departing senior aide during a March meeting in Gonzales’s office, according to correspondence released today. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the two officials who are leading an internal Justice…
Michael Roston, Raw Story In a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting Thursday morning, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) revealed that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales once again used an interim appointment authority at the heart of the US Attorneys controversy that Congress banned in a bill sent to the President for signature on June 4. “Senator Feinstein’s…
Scooter Libby faces incarceration pending appeal Michael Roston, rawstory A Federal District Court Judge ruled that former White House Adviser I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby must report to prison in 30 to 45 days, according to a breaking news report from MSNBC. Libby was sentenced last week to 30 months in prison after March convictions for…
