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...boss, Comey had come to believe that President George W. Bush's surveillance program was illegal. The White House wanted it renewed. Comey refused. And so who turned up at Ashcroft's bedside with pen and paper in search of the Attorney General's signature? White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. Summoning his strength, Ashcroft lifted his head from his pillow, affirmed his support for Comey and refused Gonzales' request. Facing the threat of a mass resignation by senior law-enforcement officials, including Ashcroft, Comey and FBI Director Robert Mueller, Bush finessed a compromise that ultimately addressed the Justice Department...
...boss, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, called the resignation of Deputy A.G. Paul McNulty, 49, "a loss"--then told reporters his No. 2 was the one who directly oversaw the U.S. Attorneys and "signed off" on the allegedly political firings that have rocked the Justice Department. (McNulty, who in e-mails expressed some reservations about the firings, did not comment.) The G.O.P. loyalist is the highest-ranking casualty of the Attorneys scandal...
When then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales went to John Ashcroft's hospital room on the evening of March 10, 2004 to ask the ailing Attorney General to override Justice Department officials and reauthorize a secret domestic wiretapping program, he was acting inappropriately, Ashcroft's deputy at the time, James Comey, testified before Congress earlier this week. But the question some lawyers, national security experts and Congressional investigators are now asking is: Was Gonzales in fact acting illegally...
Fifty-six members of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ graduating class at Harvard Law School signed a quarter-page open letter in yesterday’s Washington Post excoriating their former classmate for his “cavalier handling of our freedoms...
...often the case when someone gets the ax in Washington, the official explanation for McNulty's departure was personal. In his one-page letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the deputy AG wrote that he will be leaving in late summer because of the "financial realities" of trying to provide for college-age children on a government salary. McNulty, 49, has worked nearly half his life either on Capitol Hill or in the executive branch...