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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: ...
By: Today's Talk
Mukasey Denies Mortgage ?Problem? Caused Global Crisis
2008-06-06 23:26:00 Well, it looks like our favorite DoJ tool has said something stupid again. Well, to be honest, if AG Michael Mukasey opens his mouth you can be sure that what comes out will be stupid. Describing the current national recession causing Mortgage fraud issue as ‘local in nature’ he then characterized the issue as ...
By: Daily Nonsense
An Open Letter to Attorney General Mukasey
2008-05-17 00:25:00 by Jayne Lyn Stahl Dear Attorney-General Mukasey: It is my understanding that the government now plans to collect DNA from anyone who is arrested by federal law enforcement, and that the samples will be stored in an effort to reduce violence in our society. Moreover, the U.S. government reportedly now intends to take a cheek swab from foreigners we detain, whether they've been charged or not. While Congress may have authorized Justice to expand DNA outreach, as citizens, and taxpayers, we're entitled to know what your intentions are. The concept of DNA collection is, in itself, not a heinous thing. Indeed, if science were to be used to combat wrongful conviction instead of setting up a blueprint for pursuing future incarceration, then I would be a strong proponent of taking DNA samples from everyone who is arrested, and storingthe samples. But, instead, the database in which the DNA will be stored, CODIS, may one day be a holding cell for vital genetic information, as well a...
Criminals target energy, financial markets, Mukasey says
2008-04-24 05:20:00 By Terry FriedenApril 24, CNNWASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Wednesday that organized criminal networks have penetrated portions of the international energy market and tried to control energy resources.In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, he said similar efforts have targeted the international financial system by injecting billions of illicit funds to try to corrupt financial service providers.Mukasey then vowed to beef up U.S. efforts to fight international organized crime, which he called a growing threat to U.S. security and stability.The attorney general and top law enforcement officials from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Justice Department Criminal Division said a classified threat assessment prompted the creation of a strategy to combat the threat.It calls for several U.S. agencies and their overseas counterparts to better prioritize their targets, to improve information sharing and to boo...
Criminals target energy market, Mukasey says
2008-04-24 00:54:00 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Wednesday that organized criminal networks have penetrated portions of the international energy market and tried to control energy resources.
By: Get rich
Criminals target energy market, Mukasey says
2008-04-24 00:54:00 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Wednesday that organized criminal networks have penetrated portions of the international energy market and tried to control energy resources.
By: Get rich
9/11 Commission Chair Hamilton on Mukasey?s Story
2008-04-09 07:45:00 In the ongoing saga of the tearful story told by Mike Mukasey in trying somehow tie telcom amnesty to 9/11, Glenn gets confirmation that Mukasey is full of it I just received the following statement from the Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Rep. Lee Hamilton, in response to my inquiries last week (and numerous follow-up ...
FISA Fight: Watch Mukasey Spin
2008-04-05 01:27:00 That Mukasey has been trying to exploit 9/11 in order to make a case for a bad FISA bill, including retractive amnesty, seems to be no longer in question. But now he, and his DoJ staff, seem to be digging an ever deeper hole. A brief recap: in remarks to the Commwealth Club last week, Mukasey ...
FISA: Conyers Says Mukasey?s Statement ?Very Disturbing?
2008-04-04 02:02:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 5:00 PM MST Conyers Questions Mukasey on FISA Claim By Paul Kiel - April 3, 2008, 5:45PM It’s gotten to be something of a pattern with administration figures of late: making sweeping claims about national security matters that do not stand up to scrutiny. Just Monday, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) complained ...
By: Suzie-Q
Chairman Conyers wants answers from Mukasey
2008-04-04 01:18:00 Chairman Conyers and some of his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding answers from Mukasey about his remarks claiming there was a pre-9/11 call from a terrorist safe house in Afghanistan that was not intercepted by federal authorities. They also take the opportunity to follow up on a previous request for an October ...
Michael ?Gonzo? Mukasey
2008-04-04 01:18:00 Greenwald has a follow up post to the one I highlighted earlier, examining the assertion Michael Mukasey made in a speech last week before the Commonwealth Club that somehow our intelligence community was unable to pursue a telephone call made by an al Qaeda terrorist from a known “safe house in Afghanistan” into the United ...
Truth or Consequences - Mukasey style
2008-04-02 06:01:00 When you look back over the last 7 or so years, it is amazing the amount of lying and deceit that has shoveled out for the American people to digest. The latest comes from Michael Mukasey, who while trying to defend amnesty for the telecoms, tells a tale that sounds like we learned about ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Truth or Consequences - Mukasey style", url: "http://www.whereistheoutrage.n-et/wordpress/2008/04/02/truth-o-r-consequences-mukasey-style/"- });
Mukasey Sheds ?Crocodile Tears?? While Shamelessly Exploiting 9/11 Victims
2008-03-31 01:45:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 4:45 PM MST Michael Mukasey?s Tears of a Clown By: SilentPatriot on Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at 12:45 PM - PDT Making the case yesterday for why the House should pass the Cheney/Rockefeller bill (aka the Legalize-our-Illegal-Conduct Act), Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez Michael Mukasey teared up while shamelessly exploiting the victims of 9/11. (h/t ...
By: Suzie-Q
A G MUKASEY -DON?T EXECUTE GITMO TERRORISTS
2008-03-14 23:33:00 U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he hopes the men charged with participating in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks aren?t executed if found guilty in order to avoid creating any martyrs.Mukasey said many terrorists want to be martyrs and that by sentencing them to death, U.S. authorities risk granting that wish. ? READ MORE HERE ...
AT&T, Verizon and the National Security Agency?
2008-03-10 00:10:00 The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants. AT&T initially downplayed its heroic efforts in
Mukasey Photo Montage, An Homage If You Will.
2008-03-06 01:14:00 There were many who argued that Michael Mukasey would "clean up" the so-called, Department of Justice, after it's integrity had been run into the ground under Attorney Germinals Ashcroft and Gonzales. There was a brief moment of hope that an AG Mukasey would discontinue torture, warrantless wiretapping, reliance on absurd legal rationalizations, partisan prosecutions and the all out blitzkrieg of partisan staffing that was admittedly criminal.Saddly this has not happened.A photo memorial to AG Mukasey.Here he is being introduced by President Bush. Mukasey refusing to condemn the use of waterboarding as torture. Badges? We don need no stinking badges! Striding in with his comrades in arms to tell the House he will not prosecute their contempt citations against Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten. Brushing off Congress using an old jedi mind trick taught to him by Karl Rove.
By: NO Exit...
Mukasey?s Paradox: Government Officials Cannot Violate The Law
2008-03-05 18:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 10:00 AM MST Mukasey’s Paradox By Paul Kiel - March 4, 2008, 6:17PM Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington, writing today in The Los Angeles Times: The recent decisions of Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey to block any prosecution of Bush administration officials for contempt and to block any ...
By: Suzie-Q
[Obvious] Mukasey says the Justice Department cannot investigate waterboard
2008-02-09 16:29:00 Washington Post
Mukasey finds Pride; Tony still shameless
2008-02-07 00:00:00 As you might've already heard, new Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently broke ranks with the Bush administration by reversing a ban on the activities of the Dept. of Justice's gay centric group, DOJ Pride. Under Mukasey's newly revised equal-employment-opportunity policy,...
By: Good As You
SPECIAL COMMENT by Keith Olbermann: Bush Puts Telecoms Ahead Of American Ci
2008-02-03 20:05:00 Pres. Bush demands a law which would clear phone giants from responsibility for government’s unjustified and illegal spying on Americans If you like Keith Olberman you will like his latest Special Comment In a Presidency of hypocrisy; an Administration of exploitation; a labyrinth of leadership, in which every vital fact is a puzzle inside a riddle
Conyers Asks Mukasey: Why Is Muckraker Banned?
2008-02-01 15:30:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 7:30 AM MST Conyers to Mukasey: Why Ban Muckraker? Next week, Michael Mukasey will appear before the House Judiciary Committee for take two of his grim performance yesterday. Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), naturally, has a whole host of questions. So in a letter to Mukasey today, he queried the attorney general on weighty topics ranging from torture to voter suppression to selective prosecution to the most weighty of all: The website TPMMuckraker, which played an important role in providing information to the public concerning the U.S. Attorney scandal, revealed that it has recently been removed from DOJ’s press release email distribution list. Who made this decision and why, and was there a change in policy in press release distribution after you became Attorney General? Perhaps Rep. Conyers will have better luck getting a response than we have. But just in case, we’ve asked the Department’s Office of Public Affairs again for an explanation. The full l...
By: Suzie-Q
Mukasey ducks waterboarding issue
2008-02-01 03:19:00 Attorney General Protects Dick Cheney from possible charge of war crimesAmerica's top law enforcement official, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, on Wednesday appeared uncomfortable and evasive under a barrage of tough questions from a US Senate committee investigating charges that the United States has committed, and continues to commit war crimes in its war on terror.Grilled on the question of whether the interrogation technique of waterboarding was considered to be torture under US law, Mukasey offered only vague and ambiguous answers."I thought it was really disgraceful," Ed Spannaus, Legal Affairs Editor of Executive Intelligence Review told PressTV in an interview. "Every military lawyer in the United States knows that waterboarding is torture, there's no question about it. They know that this is illegal under US law; this is illegal under international law. So for the Attorney General to be unable to give a clear statement of waterboarding as illegal was really quite astoun...
Mukasey - Dumber Than ?Berto?
2008-01-31 23:47:00 I think we all know where our ex-AG stood on waterboarding, he knew damn well it was illegal torture. Our newest AG doesn’t seem to be able to make that leap of intellect. After three months of ‘review’, Mukasey still can decide if simulated drowning, condemned by every civilized nation, is actually torture. It’s kind ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey: U.S. Military Has Never Waterboarded
2008-01-30 18:24:00 Senate gives Mukasey a pass Watching U.S. Senators question Attorney General Michael Mukasey at the Justice Department Oversight session is infuriating. Not only does Mukasey refuse to directly answer any question, no matter how simple, the senators give him a pass. This is oversight malpractice. When asked by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) of the ...
By: Garling Gauge
Mukasey Stays the Course
2008-01-25 19:56:00 In a daring decision to remain a strict party hack and personal indentured servant of Bush, AG Michael Mukasy has refused to budge on his unethical, immoral and un-American stance on a number of issues: He refused to say whether he has completed his review of the legality of waterboarding. He refused to say if he would ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey and the CIA Tapes
2008-01-07 23:47:00 There is a very interesting article in the Eugene, Oregon, Register-Guard that put the appointment of Justice Department prosecutor John Durham in a new perspective. The basic question posed was this: Did Mukasey find so much evidence of wrongdoing at all levels of our current administration, that even a jaded party hack like himself ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey Appoints Fitzgerald To AGAC
2008-01-06 18:41:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 10:45 AM MST Return to The Fold By Paul Kiel - January 4, 2008, 10:16AM From The Swamp: Mukasey announced today that he’s appointing Chicago federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to the Attorney General’s advisory committee of U.S. attorneys. Fitzgerald was on the committee from 2001 until 2005, but his appointment to it ...
By: Suzie-Q
Statement by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey Regarding the Opening of a
2008-01-03 18:07:00 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ?Following a preliminary inquiry into the destruction by CIA personnel of videotapes of detainee interrogations, 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 as outlined ...
By: Current Era Blog
Mukasey orders torture tape investigation
2008-01-03 10:08:00 Mob-busting investigator to quiz CIA over al-Qaeda interrogation tapesAmerica?s top lawman has announced the launch of a criminal investigation into the CIA?s destruction of videotapes allegedly showing the violent interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects being held at a secret prison.Attorney General Michael Mukasey has appointed a modern day ?Untouchable? to head up the investigation. But will mob-buster John Durham be tough enough to take on the Central Intelligence Agency and possibly even the White House??He?s a very solid guy,? New York journalist Lucy Komisar told PressTV in a satellite interview, ?In fact one of his big successes was putting away a Republican governor for corruption. He?s also gone up against the FBI in Boston that was using mob informants in a way that ended up having some people killed that the FBI should have been protecting. So he doesn?t have a problem going after the agencies of government, powerful agencies at that.?Durham will be investigating whether the...
Mukasey: Criminal inquiry begins into CIA tapes
2008-01-03 00:16:00 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department opened a full criminal investigation Wednesday into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, putting the politically charged probe in the hands of a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Witch Hunt: Mukasey Orders Criminal Probe Over CIA Tapes
2008-01-02 23:47:00 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 ...
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
Mukasey Appoints ?Outside? Prosecutor in CIA Tape Case
2008-01-02 21:14:00 Would a federal prosecutor from Connecticut qualify as an ‘outsider’? Doesn’t a federal prosecutor from Connecticut frikkin’ WORK FOR Mukasey? Or am I missing something here? I wonder exactly what kind of abilities Deputy United States Attorney John H. Durham brings to the table in a case that is as potentially explosive as this one. ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Ashcroft, Gonzales & Mukasey - Brothers in ??
2008-01-02 20:05:00 In keeping with my new-found decision to allow other, more prolific and articulate writers to comment on the state of the administration I give you thins: A LONG-AWAITED NEW YEAR Wednesday, January 02, 2008 David Sarasohn The question began to pop up early, maybe in 2005, on bumper stickers and T-shirts ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey & Bush Can?t Fill Jobs in DoJ
2007-12-24 17:16:00 Five of the nine U.S. attorney jobs vacated during the great purge of 2006 are still open. It might appear to the untutored eye that the DoJ suffers from a job retention image issue. But the true facts are even scarier. The DoJ isn’t even bothering to look for potential candidates. Maybe they know ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Vituperative Editorial on Mukasey + Politics ? Justice
2007-12-20 00:11:00 Waltham, MA isn’t known for much outside of a watch and clock company that closed in 1957. It certainly isn’t known as a home for liberals. But this excellent editorial in todays Daily News Tribune by GHS shows how little we really know about this small town. Editorial: Mukasey’s stonewalling The subtext for Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s ...
By: Daily Nonsense
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
Mukasey?s ?New Day? - It?s Going to be a Long One
2007-12-18 20:16:00 Let’s see, what kind of workload is Mickey carrying right now? The construction and implementation of Torture-Gate, a cover-up at the highest level of our government of the CIA torture of suspected terrorists. Read about it Here & Here The continued obfuscation of the person or persons who exposed Valerie Plame Wilson as an operative of ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey - Just Another Crony
2007-12-15 18:46:00 As I have publicly decried our new AG, his office, and the administration that allowed our nation to reach the point that it has, I’ve been secretly hoping that Michael Mukasey would prove me wrong. I’ve had these crazy fantasies that he would come onto the political stage like an angel of wrath. Flaming ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey Still Undecided - Pushes Back
2007-12-12 14:51:00 Michael Mukasey is being pushed for answers or actions on a couple of issues. The first has to do with his inability to understand, or even comment on, waterboarding as torture. This blind-spot in the otherwise mediocre political positioning of Mukasey has raised a hue and cry in both the Senate and ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey - Will he call the CIA to the carpet?
2007-12-09 04:38:00 As the controversy surrounding the destruction of two videotapes by the CIA reaches a fever pitch, calls have been going out to the newly minted Attorney General for justice. After all, as head of the Justice Department, he seems like the logical choice, right? Well, maybe not. His predecessor, Alberto ‘I Don’t Recall’ Gonzalez didn’t ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Can Mukasey Recognize Child Exploitation?
2007-12-05 21:36:00 Our 81st Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, will likely go down in history as the man who couldn’t recognize that waterboarding is torture. Mukasey is in Saint Louis today expecting to speak at the 2007 Project Safe Childhood National Conference, but what will he bring to the table? If the man can’t recognize that waterboarding is ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Waxman - Will Mukasey help with CIA leak investigation?
2007-12-04 18:51:00 Representative Henry Waxman(D-Calif.) has approached our new Attorney General Michael Mukasey for help with an investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson to the media. Waxman is asking Mukasey to lend his power in a battle with the White House and special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald over the release of ‘key documents’. The ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey - The lesser of all evils?
2007-11-16 21:28:00 John Mashek, a retired political journalist and part time teacher has a Blog over at U.S. News and World Report where he is busy commenting on politics. He posted some thoughts yesterday that struck a chord in my battle weary heart. He was referring to the Mukasey confirmation votes by Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and ...
By: Daily Nonsense
Mukasey sets tone of tenure in first 24 hours
2007-11-16 00:43:00 If you are reading this article on American Nonsense please note that it has been plagiarized from Daily-Nonsense.com. They lie when they indicate that I voluntarily posted to their rag. Please click through HERE and read the articulate copy you have come to expect. Judge Michael Mukasey has surged out of the gate as the 81st ...
By: Daily Nonsense
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
The Mukasey Debate
2007-11-11 23:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 3:00 PM MST If you can?t say it any better than Ted Kennedy, why try? We certainly won?t. Here, the former Truthdigger of the Week speaks for us all as he lays out the case against Mukasey: More videos Here
By: Suzie-Q
New York Times Uses Editorial To Slam Democrats for "Abdicating" and "Capit
2007-11-11 19:15:00 It is extraordinary how President Bush has streamlined the Senate confirmation process. As we have seen most recently with the vote to confirm Michael Mukasey as attorney general, about all that is left of ?advice and consent? is the ?consent? part. Once upon a time, the confirmation of major presidential appointments played out on several levels ? starting, of course, with politics. It was assumed that a president would choose like-minded people as cabinet members and for other jobs requiring Senate approval. There was a presumption that he should be allowed his choices, all other things being equal. Before George W. Bush?s presidency, those other things actually counted. Was the nominee truly qualified, with a professional background worthy of the job? Would he discharge his duties fairly and honorably, upholding his oath to protect the Constitution? Even though she answers to the president, would the nominee represent all Americans? Would he or she respect the power of Congress...
On Mukasey and Moral Cowardice of Clinton, Obama and Dodd
2007-11-10 20:29:00 Attorney General Mukasey.W's nominee, Michael Mukasey's defining moments are his refusal to call waterboarding torture, refusal to promise an independent investigation into the commission of war crimes and explicit endorsement of some aspects of the ludicrous interpretations of the unitary executive theory of rule.It is now apparent that Democratic nominees and US Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Chris Dodd all got the hell out of dodge when the key vote came. What a critical failure of leadership on one of the defining moments in our history. The fact that they are on record as opposing Mukasey's nomination is not enough. Our country needed more than their votes. We needed their leadership on a matter fundamental to America's moral fiber. Was a filibuster warranted? Maybe. Was lobbying their colleagues and twisting arms warranted? Definitely. Was making themselves available to cast a critical vote expected? Absolutely.The claim that their votes would not hav...
By: NO Exit...
Mukasey as AG~Is this ?As Good As It Gets??
2007-11-10 19:12:00 by Geezer Power …11:12 am Bad News!!! THE U.S. Senate zionists crawled out from underneath rocks to support zionist bagman Michael Mukasey tonight by a vote of 53 - 40. Rest assured you will see more 911 cover-up, the AIPAC spy trial will be jettisoned , Dick Cheney will find smooth sailing for the cover-up of his ...
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