| August 27, 2007 | - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned.
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New York Times
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| August 3, 2007 | - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declined to discuss whether he had perjured himself before Congress.
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AP via Mercury News
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| July 27, 2007 | - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified that no one in the Bush Administration had voiced objections to the NSA's wiretapping program. FBI director Robert Mueller testified that the surveillance program was “much discussed” by other officials, and Senate Judiciary chair Patrick Leahy of Vermont sent Mr. Gonzales a transcript of his testimony and asked him to “mark any changes you wish to make to correct, clarify or supplement your answers so that, consistent with your oath, they are the whole truth.”
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New York Times
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| May 24, 2007 | -
President Bush expressed his continuing support for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden. “I've got confidence in Al Gonzales doin' the job,” said Bush, as a passing sparrow shit on his sleeve.
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USA Today
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| May 17, 2007 | -
Senate
Democrats called for a vote of no confidence in Gonzales, and Senator Charles Schumer called the Attorney General a puppet.
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The New York Times
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| May 10, 2007 | - Former United States attorney Todd P. Graves claimed that he had been forced to resign for refusing to pursue a politically motivated voter-fraud lawsuit, and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales continued to defend the Department's firing of eight other U.S. attorneys. Asked how he knew that the President or the Vice President was not involved in the decision, Gonzales replied, “I just know they would not do that.”
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Kansas City Star
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SF Chronicle
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NYT
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| May 2, 2007 | - Senator Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) issued a subpoena to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for emails from Karl Rove regarding the U.S. attorney firings.
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CNN.com
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| April 20, 2007 | - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the firing of federal prosecutors; Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) told Gonzales his ability to lead was in question, and Senator Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) asked Gonzales to resign. One prominent Republican said the hearing was like “clubbing a baby seal.”
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New York Times
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Raw Story
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| April 13, 2007 | - It was reported that almost a year before seven U.S. attorneys were fired, an email from D. Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, proposed replacement candidates for them. Four years' worth of email from Karl Rove, sought by Democrats investigating Rove's role in the firings, was missing from the Republican National Committee server.
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NYT
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WaPo
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| March 18, 2007 | -
Congress continued its inquiry into the role of the Bush Administration in last year's firing of eight U.S attorneys. D. Kyle Sampson, the chief of staff for U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, resigned after claiming, in an apparent attempt to save Gonzalez from the charge of lying to Congress, that he did not tell his superiors at the Justice Department that the White House wanted to fire the prosecutors. The Justice Department released a March 2005 email from Sampson to then-White House counsel Harriet Miers, in which he ranked all 93 U.S. attorneys on their loyalty to the Administration and made a “target list.” In other emails, he cited a little-known provision of the Patriot Act that authorizes the attorney general to replace U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation and consulted with Miers about the possibility of replacing between 15 and 20 percent of U.S. attorneys, “the underperforming ones,” and leaving the “loyal Bushies.”
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WP
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WP
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McClatchy Newspapers
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| March 11, 2007 | - The scandal surrounding the firing of eight federal prosecutors continued to unfold as it became clearer from congressional testimony that the attorneys had resisted political pressure from the White House to subordinate law enforcement priorities to partisan politics. Karl Rove admitted that he had passed along complaints from the New Mexico
Republican Party chairman about U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who had referred to the scandal as an “overblown personnel matter.” One day there will be a new attorney general,“ said Senator Arlen Specter. “Maybe sooner rather than later.”
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Baltimore Sun
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| September 20, 2006 | - The United States Justice Department claimed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales “had his timeline mixed up” when he denied the United States had deported a Canadian citizen to Syria, where he was tortured.
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New York times
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| August 29, 2006 | - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales visited Iraq to encourage “the rule of law.”
| Source 1:
NPR
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icasualties.org
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Reuters
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Reuters
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Reuters
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Sapa-AP via Independent Online
Source 7:
Reuters
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Reuters
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AP via Houston Chronicle
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| February 7, 2006 | - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that the wiretapping was legal and necessary. "The short answer," he said when asked why the Administration did not seek Congressional approval for the program, "is that we didn't think we needed to. Quite frankly."
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| July 4, 2005 | - Conservative groups began fighting to keep Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from being nominated to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor because he is not conservative enough.
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The New York Times
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| April 7, 2005 | - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that most of the allegations of abuse by detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay do not meet his definition of torture.
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MYSA.com/AP
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| February 14, 2005 | -
Alberto Gonzales was sworn in as attorney general.
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The New York Times
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| February 3, 2005 | -
Alberto Gonzales was confirmed as attorney general, and Senator Arlen Specter described him as a man who had made it "up from the bootstraps without even boots." Another senator dismissed accusations of Gonzales's condoning torture as "exaggerated."
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 6, 2005 | - and Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales said he did not approve of torture.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| June 19, 2004 | - White House council Alberto Gonzales testified before the grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame affair.
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New York Times
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| May 17, 2004 | - And it was revealed that in 2002 White House council Alberto Gonzalez wrote a memo arguing that the war on terror "renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."
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Newsday
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