Word: alberto
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...Justice Department official, who said "Don't clear the front page for it," but [the case is] "pretty significant." When asked if there was a connection to Toledo charity KindHearts, that had its assets frozen by the Treasury Department on Feb. 19 for alleged ties to Hamas, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demurred. "What I can say is that they're separate investigations," he said. "They also happen to be coordinated investigations." A Justice Department official went further: "The investigations have some nexus," he said, adding that the three men indicted Tuesday were not directly connected to KindHearts. Despite the fact...
...George H.W. Bush's National Security Council and plans to rewrite the cold war-era law controlling domestic eavesdropping in collaboration with House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner, who showed his willingness to oversee the Executive Branch last week by sending 51 questions about the program to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. "The law was written in 1978, pre-cell phone, pre-Internet," Wilson says. "We need to do some updating...
...chair of the economics department, Alberto F. Alesina, wrote in an e-mail that Athey “is a fantastic addition” to Harvard’s faculty...
...than a little curious. According to Townsend, the White House declassified the details of the 2002 plot because most of the leads in the investigation had been exhausted. A senior Administraion official brushed aside the notion that the speech was timed to this week's grilling of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the NSA program, noting that today's speech has been in the works since last year. "It takes forever to sign off on declassification," the official said. Townsend wouldn't confirm or deny if the NSA wiretapping, first revealed by The New York Times, has been used...
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sipped water, read from bread-box-sized law books and generally kept his cool through a barrage of questions Monday as Senators from both parties tried to corner him on the limits of presidential wartime powers. It was the first real public debate in Congress since 9/11 about presidential authority in times of war, and so while the hearing was ostensibly about the President's secret warrantless wiretapping program, the most exercised debate was about how far the Commander in Chief's powers could be taken without judicial oversight...