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...Mr Mueller started at the FBI a week before al-Qaeda struck the Pentagon and World Trade Center....
...This year, Mr Sununu boasts that he was the first Republican senator to call for the resignation of Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney-general and Mr Bush’s close ally....
...The issue is expected to be raised at the confirmation hearing of Michael Mukasey, the White House nominee to replace Mr Gonzales as attorney-general....
...Mr Mukasey was originally expected to face a relatively easy confirmation process to replace the controversial Alberto Gonzales....
...In my view, the US is indeed at war with al-Qaeda. I have no quarrel with that term. But there are limits to what it justifies....
...Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney-general, has been widely criticised for allowing his close political relationship with the White House to trump his commitment to the rule of law....
...The departure of Al Hubbard, director of the National Economic Council, comes as Mr Bush faces some of the toughest economic challenges of his presidency....
...The newly approved techniques were desired primarily to interrogate a young Saudi, Mohammed Al-Qahtani, in custody at Guantánamo....
...Mr Padilla, a convert to Islam, was arrested in 2002 on suspicion of conspiring with al-Qaeda to explode a radiological bomb in the US and was detained for more than three years in military custody as an...
...Democrats are especially wary of allowing Alberto Gonzales, the embattled attorney-general, from having a significant role in authorising wiretaps....
...What’s a nice Jewish girl to do when she’s asked to talk about adultery live on Al-Jazeera International?...
...Disgraced attorney-general Alberto Gonzales cracked the 02138 list for the first time this year, debuting at 100 – in spite of his recent resignation....
...“The president said he’s got confidence in Al Gonzales,” said Tony Snow, White House spokesman. “We hope he stays.”...
...This appears a common state of mind in current rightwing circles, viz Limbaugh, O’Reilly et al. An honourable man would have resigned by now....
...The move came the day before the Senate judiciary committee was expected to grill Alberto Gonzales, the attorney-general, over the Terrorist Surveillance Programme, which Mr Bush approved after the September...
...Mr Bush authorised the controversial eavesdropping programme – which permitted the NSA to eavesdrop without court warrant on the international communications of Americans with links to al-Qaeda – after the...
...BAE bribed officials in Saudi Arabia in connection to its Al-Yamamah deal....
...We learn this week that Alberto Gonzales, the artless attorney general, blithely lied to Congress, this time over possible violations by the FBI of the Patriot Act, which happens to give the FBI greater...
...A year ago, the administration argued the intelligence surveillance court was too sluggish to target al-Qaeda communications. Now it says it can be effective....
...in its conflict with al-Qaeda “without exception”....
...Alberto Gonzales, aka Al the Pal, is an attorney-general whose expansive views of presidential power would make such notorious predecessors as A. Mitchell Palmer and John Mitchell green with envy....
...Mr Gonzales said the group never contacted al-Qaeda. Instead, they made contact with an undercover law enforcement agent who was posing as a member of the terrorist group....
...But he said it was “not always sufficient for providing the sort of nimble early warning system we need against al-Qaeda”....
...The administration says the effort is aimed narrowly at communications involving suspected members of al-Qaeda or their supporters, but in order to identify such suspicious conversations many suspect that...
...Bush that members of al-Qaeda were not protected by the Geneva conventions....
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