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Is Gonzales a Diversion? | White House Watch by Dan Froomkin
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/03/14...
Froomkin probes whether Gonzales is issuing carefully parsed acknowledgements of mistakes in order to take heat off the White House and its involvement with the politically-motivated firing of 8 US Attorneys.
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63 months, 1 week, 3 days, 3 hours agoTags: news, Gonzales, doj, democracy, law, BUSH
Internal Affairs - Aborted DOJ Probe Probably Would Have Targeted Gonzales | Murray Waas
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http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0315nj1.htm
Gonzales found out his conduct would be investigated, advised Bush to close down the inquiry. Bush personally intervened to stop it. Did Gonzales abuse his position with Bush by not telling him he'd be investigated? Or did Bush knowingly participate in a cover-up to protect his friend?
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63 months, 1 week, 4 days, 1 hour agoTags: politics, BUSH, law, democracy, doj, Gonzales, wiretapping
Dick Cheney's warped vision of the world
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/03/13/cheney/ind...
Glenn Greenwald on how Dick Cheney personifies the same right-wing paranoid, apocalyptic vision as bin Laden.
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63 months, 1 week, 4 days, 20 hours agoTags: Cheney, BUSH, war, law, democracy
Political Profiling of Elected Democratic Officials: When Rhetorical Vision Participation Runs Amok
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http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/20070212_politica...
A study by Donald C. Shields and John F. Cragan shows that "Data indicate that the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven (7) times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops."
Presents the problems caused by political profiling, and suggests legal solutions.
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Submitted by schlach
63 months, 1 week, 5 days, 1 hour agoTags: democracy, law, BUSH, politics, doj, Gonzales
Paul Krugman: Did Bush misuse the Justice Department?
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http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_...
"The bigger scandal, however, almost surely involves prosecutors still in office... Donald Shields and John Cragan, two professors of communication, have compiled a database of investigations and/or indictments of candidates and elected officials by U.S. attorneys since the Bush administration came to power. Of the 375 cases they identified, 10 involved independents, 67 involved Republicans and 298 involved Democrats."
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Submitted by schlach
63 months, 1 week, 5 days, 1 hour agoTags: Gonzales, news, BUSH, law, democracy, doj
Is Gonzales a Diversion? | White House Watch by Dan Froomkin
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04...
Froomkin probes whether Gonzales is issuing carefully parsed acknowledgements of mistakes in order to take heat off the White House and its involvement with the politically-motivated firing of 8 US Attorneys.
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Submitted by schlach
63 months, 1 week, 5 days, 2 hours agoTags: news, Gonzales, doj, democracy, law, BUSH
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