:: Part 3: August 2006 - November 2007
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17 August 2006
NSA Wiretaps Unconstitutional
The Bush Administration suffered yet another blow from the courts when a US District Court Judge ruled Thursday that the NSA wiretapping program is unconstitutional. In the 43-page opinion, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor wrote: "It was never the intent of the framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights."
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16 May 2007
More Shades of Watergate
The AttorneyGate affair may have more in common with Watergate than Beltway shorthand for "Presidential scandal."
The day after the number two guy at the Department of Justice announces his resignation ... the former number two guy tells a tale worthy of a Hollywood potboiler. Three years ago in March, he says, then White House Counsel Gonzales and then White House chief of staff Andrew Card tried to coerce Attorney General John Ashcroft into reauthorizing the Bush warrantless wiretapping scheme.
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18 May 2007
More On Comey, NSA and The Politicization of Justice
This week's revelations about the warrantless eavesdropping program that the Bush Administration launched post-9-11 highlights the politicization of the Department of Justice -- a politicization that came to light with the mass firing of United States Attorneys.
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08 August 2007
Warrantless Wiretaps: Temporarily Legal
Democrats in Congress capitulated when President Bush insisted he would veto a Democratic-sponsored bill that approved limited warrantless wiretaps of foreign communications but also included some oversight by FISA and the Justice Department Inspector General.
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27 August 2007
Reaction to "Inevitable" Resignation of Alberto Gonzales
Soon-to-be-former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (his resignation is effective 16 September, after the summer Congressional recess ends) was criticized for his close relationship to the White House, especially in light of what appears to be politically-motivated firings of US Attorneys. The NY Times called for his impeachment, and there were rumblings of a perjury charge among some members of Congress.
:: Introduction
:: Part 1: Dec 2005 - Feb 2006
:: Part 2: Apr 2006 - July 2006
:: Part 3: Aug 2006 - Aug 2007
:: Part 4: Sept 2007 - Jan 2008
