Alberto Gonzales

August 3, 2007 -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., received a letter from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales late today in response to Senator Leahy’s request that the Attorney General clarify or correct the testimony he provided to the Committee on July 24, 2007.

Below is Chairman Leahy’s comment on the Attorney General’s attempt to clarify his testimony.    » read more »

DOJ changes allow prosecutions to be used for “partisan political advantage”

August 2, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales calling for further explanation of changes made to the federal election crime prosecution manual, and rejecting Department of Justice explanations as inadequate.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007 – Geoffrey Golden, 57, of Pella, Iowa, was sentenced to 63 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge James Gritzner for possession of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker of the Southern District of Iowa announced today.    » read more »

July 17, 2007 -- (Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Reps. Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Artur Davis (D-AL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, asking him to provide documents and information about several prominent prosecutions and convictions of Democratic officials or operatives across the country.    » read more »

July 16, 2007 -- (Washington, D.C)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler announced they have postponed a scheduled oversight hearing on the Justice Department's Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division because the Department refused to make Voting Section Chief John Tanner available to testify. The hearing was scheduled to take place TOMORROW, July 17 at 10 A.M.    » read more »

July 13, 2007 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), issued a subpoena for documents from the Republican National Committee (RNC) as part of ongoing congressional investigations into the targeted purge of US Attorneys and related matters. The Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law authorized Conyers to issue the subpoena yesterday.    » read more »

Is The Department Of Justice Politicizing The Hiring And Firing Of U.S. Attorneys?

July 11, 2007 -- "Today, the Committee welcomes Sara Taylor, until recently the White House Political Director. She is accompanied by her attorney Neil Eggleston, whom we have permitted to be seated next to her at the witness table during the hearing to provide her with his advice and counsel.    » read more »

Judiciary Panel to Consider Privilege Claims Tomorrow

July 11, 2007 -- ( Washington, DC) - Today, an attorney for former White House Counsel Harriet Miers rescinded his prior confirmation that Ms. Miers would attend the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Thursday in response to a subpoena and would assert executive privilege to certain questions posed by the committee, as directed by the president.    » read more »

Announce Vote to Authorize RNC Subpoena

July 10, 2007 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sánchez confirmed that former White House counsel Harriet Miers will attend Thursday's hearing concerning the U.S. Attorney firings.    » read more »

July 11, 2007 -- Just when you didn’t think the incompetence could get any worse, it appears that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales misled Congress when he “assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers.” According to today’s Washington Post, “six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have.” Whether it is illegally firing US Attorneys, limiting voting rights, or selecting partisan judges, the Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales contin    » read more »

WASHINGTON (Tuesday, July 10) - Below is Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy’s comment on reports that the Attorney General misled the Senate regarding the timing of his knowledge of widespread abuses by the FBI that resulted in violations of Americans’ privacy and civil liberties.    » read more »

July 9, 2007 -- "Today, House Judiciary Chairman Conyers and I received another letter from the White House Counsel Fred Fielding responding to duly authorized subpoenas with a blanket assertion of executive privilege. I had hoped the Judiciary Committees’ subpoenas would be met with compliance. Instead, they have been met -- yet again -- with Nixonian stonewalling that reveals this White House’s disdain for our system of checks and balances.    » read more »

07/09/2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. John Kerry issued the following statement today, in response to the White House announcement that the President's lawyers will block Congress from hearing testimony from two aides suspected of playing a role in the US Attorney's purge.

"I hope President Bush will rethink his refusal to cooperate with Congress and have his aides come clean on the firings of U.S. Attorneys," Kerry said.    » read more »

WASHINGTON (Wednesday, June 27) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), in consultation with Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), issued subpoenas Wednesday for documents relating to the authorization and legal justification for the Administration's warrantless wiretapping program.    » read more »

June 27, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC — Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and Oversight and Government Reform Information Policy Subcommittee Chairman Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO) today called upon Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to explain his role in the Vice President’s extraordinary attempt to remove his office from executive branch oversight and the subsequent refusal to comply with procedures to protect classified information in the Office of the Vice President (OVP).    » read more »