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Attorney General Michael Mukasey appoints torture backer as Chief of Staff
2008-08-08 16:49:00 Attorney General Michael Mukasey has appointed a known supporter of the Bush administration?s torture policies as his chief of staff. Brian Benczkowski has previously argued that US interrogators aren?t practicing torture if they are solely acting to prevent an attack and not intending to humiliate or cause harm. In a previously undisclosed letter, Benczkowski writes: ...
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Bush Seeks To Limit Press From Freedom of Speach - Bush Needs to be Impeach
2008-02-04 05:22:00 This is serious as on top of big corporate interests presenting their agenda as “news” and limiting what they want the public to hear, we also have Bush threatening the press for publishing issues that are significant to the American people with respect to what the government is doing. Glenn Greenwald wrote the following yesterday: Is Michael ...
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Witch Hunt: Mukasey Orders Criminal Probe Over CIA Tapes
2008-01-02 23:37:00 Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed an outside prosecutor Wednesday to lead a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes. “The Department’s National Security Division has recommended, and I have concluded, that there is a basis for initiating a criminal investigation of this matter, and I have taken steps to begin that investigation,” Mukasey said ...
By: The Hot Joints
Thanks Senator Feinstein For Giving Us Michael Mukasey
2007-12-19 00:37:00 Is anyone really surprised that Mukasey is trying to delay congressional inquiries into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes? Or that the DOJ is trying to get U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy to “stay out of the matter” Mukasey is nothing more than another Alberto Gonzales, but this time, with some intelligence. Back in November I
CIA Interrogation Tape Destructions
2007-12-09 07:18:00 OK, I’m not going to make a long post about this yet (for the same reason that I’m holding off on the accusations toward Rudy Giuliani using NYC funds to fund his dates with his mistress) because we don’t have all the facts (for some details on what we do know, read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/-09/washington/09zubaydah.html?_-r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin)-. What I ...
There is no opposition party in Washington
2007-11-19 14:46:00 In describing the Democratic response to Bush’s sabre-rattling toward Iran, Power of Narrative’s Arthur Silber summed things up neatly: They don’t object because — they don’t object. The only thing wrong with Silber’s assessment is that it was limited to Iran. In truth, you could just as easily use those seven succinct words to characterize the Democratic Party in general. Time and time again, on critical issue after critical issue, the Democrats fall in line with their Republican leaders and do what they’re asked. They do the will of the GOP instead of the will of the people. They act in the interests of the nation’s narrow power elite instead of in the public interest. They follow instead of leading. And they do so because - they don’t object. Some examples illustrate the point. Despite winning a majority in both houses of Congress largely on America’s unhappiness with our open-ended occupation of Iraq, and despite cont...
Mukasey Sworn In As Nation?s 81st Attorney General
2007-11-14 22:16:00 Former federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey was sworn in as the nation’s 81st attorney general today. President Bush, welcoming Mukasey to the Cabinet, called him “the right man” to confront the challenges at the department, which has been demoralized by a scandal in which eight U.S. attorneys were fired, provoking allegations from Democrats that they ...
By: The Hot Joints
Obama and the art of the wide stance
2007-11-09 21:53:00 I’m having trouble figuring out exactly what Barack Obama is about lately. Like his infamous colleague Larry Craig,the Senator from Illinois seems to be taking a wide stance–but where Craig’s wide stance was bracketed by the infamous airport bathroom stall where he made his political mark (so to speak), Obama’s issue stances are so broad that both supporters and opponents alike are scratching their heads, wondering “What the hell does this guy stand for?” Consider the following: While ramping up his efforts to attack Hillary Clinton as a typical DC insider and friend to corporate interests, Obama actually beat Clinton to the punch in expressing his support for the expansion of NAFTA into Peru, guaranteeing that workers’ interests would be shafted in favor of the same corporate interests that would benefit from so-called “free” trade–and assuring them that he can be their friend even better than Hillary. Then you have his ...
Senate Approves Mukasey AG, Kennedy Laugher - Talks About ?restoring confi
2007-11-09 06:14:00 The next drunk driver must restore confidence in the rule of law," Kennedy said. "We cannot afford to take the judgment of another person like myself who either does not know a drowning young girl when he sees one or is willing to look the other way."
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Stop the insanity: Key ?liberal? says Gingrich a ?great thinker?
2007-11-08 01:27:00 And you college football fans thought you were having a weird year. Pity the poor political junkies. This all happened in just the last couple of days: a Libertarian candidate raked in over $4 million in one day, a liberal senator says Newt Gingrich is a genius, and supposedly fed-up Dems capitulated on yet another Bush nominee. The latest Evans-Novak Political Report has quite a bit on Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the so-called “fringe” candidate running for the White House. Paul’s online haul is, per the report, “the largest single day of online fundraising in political history, and the largest single day of donations for any Republican candidate ever.” The report crows quite a bit about Paul, but that shouldn’t come as a total shock, as Novak has previously sung the praises of the Texas maverick. Speaking of singing praises, liberal Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says that wannabe president Newt Gingrich, disgruntled architect of the Contract with Ameri...
Senate Committee Approves Mukasey Nomination
2007-11-07 17:01:00 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Tuesday to approve the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as Attorney General, despite opposition from most of the committee?s cowardly Democrats over Mr. Mukasey?s refusal to label an interrogation technique used by CIA as torture. The vote, 11 to 8, with two Democrats joining all of the committee?s Republicans in ...
By: The Hot Joints
Judiciary Committee votes 11-8 to forward Michael Mukasey to full Senate V
2007-11-07 02:11:00 Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business Meeting on A.G. Nominee Mukasey FULL STREAMING VIDEO. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds an executive business meeting to consider the nomination of Michael Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General. Mukasey must receive ten votes from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination to advance to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation. 11/6/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 1 hr. 45 min.President Bush Pleased by Vote to Forward Nomination of Judge Mukasey to Full SenateWe appreciate the vote of senators on the Judiciary Committee to forward the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to the full Senate. Judge Mukasey has clearly demonstrated that he will be an exceptional Attorney General at this critical time.The Justice Department is crucial to both our law enforcement and national security missions, and so we look forward to a vote in the full Senate to confirm Judge Mukasey, allowing us to move to filling the senior leadership positions at the J...
Judiciary Panel Approves Michael Mukasey?s nomination
2007-11-06 17:48:00 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Judiciary Committee advanced Attorney General designate Michael Mukasey’s nomination to the Senate floor Tuesday, virtually ensuring confirmation for a former judge ensnarled in bitter controversy over terrorism-era prisoner interrogations. Share This
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Michael B. Mukasey l Review & Preview LIVE VIDEO
2007-11-06 02:29:00 DATE: November 6, 2007, TIME: 10:00 AM. ROOM: Dirksen-226. OFFICIAL BUSINESS MEETING NOTICE & SUMMARY:October 31, 2007, An Executive Business Meeting has been scheduled by the Committee on the Judiciary, for Tuesday, November 6, 2007, at 10:00 a.m., in the Senate Dirksen Building, Room 226.By order of the Chairman AGENDA: Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Dirksen Office Building Room 226 November 6, 2007 at 10:00 a.m.Nomination: Michael B. Mukasey to be Attorney General of the United States. Live Confirmation Hearings on Michael Mukasey C-SPAN 3 Real Media and in Windows Media Format On Tuesday 11/06/07, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Michael Mukasey to be U.S. Attorney General. Live Coverage begans at 10:00 am.ET. Michael B. Mukasey BiographyRelated Video The Senate Judiciary Committee on Michael Mukasey to be U.S. Attorney General FULL STREAMING VIDEO IN REAL MEDIA FORMAT:Nomination Hearing/ Day 1 - AM Session (10/17/07)No...
Diane Feinstein and Charles Schumer Support Michael Mukasey
2007-11-03 03:56:00 Diane Feinstein and Charles Schumer put in there support today for Michael Mukasey, Attorney general Nominee. By doing so this pretty much guarantees that Michael Mukasey will receive all the votes he needs to have his confirmation endorsed. These two stepped up and announced they will vote to support him after Patrick Leahy’s came out ...
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Mukasey Refuses To Call Waterboarding Torture, Liberals Cry
2007-10-31 05:25:00 In an effort to quell growing doubts in the Senate about his nomination as attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey declared Tuesday that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques ?seem over the line or, on a personal basis, repugnant to me? and promised to review the legality of such methods if confirmed. But Mr. Mukasey told Senate ...
By: The Hot Joints
Michael Mukasey: Another Loyal Bushie
2007-10-22 23:55:00 by Marjorie Cohn The Michael Mukasey Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing has demonstrated that Mukasey cannot be relied upon to function independently as U.S. Attorney General. Nevertheless, Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee seem so thrilled that Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales that they're willing to vote for him even though he's another loyal Bushie. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, backed down on his promise to hold up the confirmation hearing until the administration turned over material his committee had requested regarding several investigations. Leahy said of Mukasey after the hearing, "He's at least answered the questions, which is better than his predecessor. He's going to be different than Gonzales on all the issues, I think. He will certainly be better than Gonzales on morale." But saying that Mukasey compares favorably to Alberto Gonzales is faint praise for the nominee. The former Attorney Gen...
Attorney General Nominee Michael Mukasey: Not The Constitution?s Friend
2007-10-19 19:47:00 Katherine at Obsidian Wings wrote an interesting post yesterday regarding President Bush’s Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey. After watching the confirmation hearing, she concluded: None of the statements that I?ve read today give me any real information or reassurance about what he will do as Attorney General. […]The statements that ?I categorically denounce torture,? ?the United ...
Michael Mukasey: Not The Constitution's Friend
2007-10-19 03:48:00 Katherine at Obsidian Wings wrote an interesting post yesterday regarding President Bush's Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey. After watching the confirmation hearing, she concluded:None of the statements that I’ve read today give me any real information or reassurance about what he will do as Attorney General. ...The statements that “I categorically denounce torture,” “the United States doesn’t torture,” “torture is antithetical to our values”—they are meaningless from members of this administration.While she is absolutely right that his blanket statements are meaningless, I have to disagree that we didn't learn any real information about what Michael Mukasey would do as Attorney General. Quite the opposite actually. We learned quite a bit, but from different statements.The mindset Mukasey exhibited, via the following examples, and the conclusions that can be drawn, paint a disturbing picture.During his confirmation hearing:1) Michael Mukasey made excuse...
Attorney General Nominee Michael Mukasey: Fundamentally Flawed
2007-10-18 02:54:00 Michael Mukasey is George W. Bush’s nominee to be the next United States Attorney General, the top law enforcement position in this country. In the beginning of today’s Senate confirmation hearing, Senator Patrick Leahy questioned Michael Mukasey about his opinion on the memo written by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bibey in 2002 which advocated the ...
Confirmation Hearings on Michael Mukasey LIVE VIDEO
2007-10-17 01:45:00 Live Confirmation Hearings on Michael Mukasey C-SPAN 3 Real Media and in Windows Media Format On Wednesday 10/17/07, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Michael Mukasey to be U.S. Attorney General. Live Coverage begans at 10:00 am.ET. The confirmation hearing will re-air later that night at 10pm ET on C-SPAN2 in Real Media Format and in Windows Media Format, our coverage will continue during the week as necessary. Michael B. Mukasey BiographyTechnorati Tags: Confirmation Hearings and Senate Judiciary Committee or Michael Mukasey and Attorney General or State Department Daily Press Briefing, 10/15/07 VIDEO, PODCAST, TEXT and Native American Heritage On the war path and 2 giant steps in advancement of quantum computing
Michael B. Mukasey Biography
2007-09-19 00:40:00 Michael Bernard Mukasey (born July 28, 1941)Mukasey attended the Ramaz School in Manhattan, graduating in 1959. His wife, Susan, was a teacher and headmistress of the lower school at Ramaz and both of their children (Marc and Jessica) attended the school.Mukasey graduated from Columbia University, where he was the op-ed page editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator, receiving his B.A. in 1963, and Yale Law School, receiving his LL.B. in 1967. He practiced law for 20 years in New York City, serving for four years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the federal prosecutor's office in which he worked with Rudolph Giuliani. In 1976, he joined the New York law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler (Download V-Card) following his service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District, where he had risen to become chief of the Official Corruption Unit.He left the firm as a partner in 1988 to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District...
PROFILE: Michael Mukasey
2007-09-18 20:41:00 President Bush just named Michael Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. Many Americans who don’t follow politics that closely have emailed us asking, “who is this Mukasey guy?” So here is the Wikipedia profile of Michael Mukasey. Michael Bernard Mukasey[4] (IPA: /mju.?ke?.zi/[5]) (born July 28, 1941)[3] is an American lawyer who, for 18 ...
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Michael Mukasey Nominee for Attorney General PODCAST VIDEO
2007-09-18 03:01:00 President Bush Announces Judge Michael Mukasey as Nominee for Attorney General FULL STTREAMING VIDEO, The Rose Garden Fact Sheet: Michael Mukasey: A Strong Attorney General 10:31 A.M. EDT. PODCAST OF THIS ARTICLETHE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I'm pleased to announce my nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to be the 81st Attorney General of the United States. Judge, thank you for agreeing to serve.The Attorney General serves as our nation's chief law enforcement officer. The Attorney General has an especially vital role to play in a time of war, when we face the challenges -- and we face the challenge of protecting our people on a daily basis from deadly enemies, while at the same time protecting our freedom.Judge Mukasey brings impressive credentials to this task. In 1987, he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. It's one of the country's busiest and most respected trial courts. He sat on that court for mo...
President George W. Bush nominates retired Judge Michael Mukasey for Attorn
2007-09-17 09:51:00 President George W. Bush has made his choice and nominates retired federal judge Michael Mukasey, this is who Bush wants to replace Alberto Gonzales who is the outgoing Attorney General. It was reported that President Bush favored Mukasey after Harry Reid the Senate Democratic Leader said that he was to block former U.S. Solicitor General ...
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey
2007-09-17 01:46:00 Bush picks Mukasey as attorney general I'll be watching this one very closely. Mukasey's credentials appear to be strong, and his experience with anti-corruption cases is extensive, but I'm always suspicious when key Democrats actually *like* one of the President's nominees. He's been endorsed by leftist Senators like Chuck Schumer, and the ultra-liberal Alliance for Justice organization named Mukasey as one of four judges whose appointment to the Supreme Court would show a commitment to nominating people who both Republicans and Democrats could support. Harriet Meiers anyone? You know something isn't right with a judicial candidate when liberals suggest him as a Supreme Court nominee. You know the rule: if liberals see you as a moderate, you're a liberal. He's also a Reagan appointee, and in recent years it's become clear that the late President Reagan did a very lousy job of choosing his friends. Lately a significant number of Reagan appointees have become turnco...
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