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With a number of senators now charging Attorney General Gonzales with having perjured himself in his recent appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and calls for his prosecution proliferating, FBI…

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The cloud of secrecy that surrounds the private security contracting industry is nowhere more evident than in the workings of Blackwater U.S.A. The postwar business boom in the security industry…

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The Law Council of Australia, the nation’s compulsory membership bar association, undertook a comprehensive study of the treatment of Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks. Their conclusion is now in: (PDF) The…

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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be…

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This really is something. Not just the piece by Kelley and Turner. I just meandered my way through the Financial Times and, after reading the plans of my always hilarious…

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On Friday afternoon, as I was on my way out to the airport for a flight overseas, the White House issued an order on interrogation techniques. This definitively puts an…

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The testimony before Congress, or the lack thereof, by various Bush administration officials is beginning to seem a mockery of the concept of “congressional oversight.” Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee…

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Shortly after noon yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee, led by chairman John Conyers (D-MI), voted to issue contempt citations for Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten, both of whom refused to…

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“You see two individuals,” [Teufelsdrokh] writes, “one dressed in fine Red, the other in coarse threadbare Blue: Red says to Blue, ‘Be hanged and anatomized;’ Blue hears with a shudder,…

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For the last couple of months we’ve been focusing on the politicization of the Justice Department under both John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales, and the significant number of prosecutions brought…

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Two reporters worked from opposite ends of Alabama to whip up stories in a successful effort to take down former Governor Siegelman and to legitimize a highly political prosecution. In…

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For those of you who missed the testimony of Alberto Gonzales before the Judiciary Committee, I’d recommend making the effort to catch it on a CSPAN rebroadcast. There’s simply no…

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The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having…

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I’m sitting in a bar in Edinburgh, Scotland, and guess what people are watching? Alberto Gonzales testifying. (Many rude comments in the background. Even watching “Trainspotting” did not prepare me…

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Today Attorney General Gonzales appears to testify under oath once more before Congress. Let’s see if his memory has cleared up any. But in the meantime, the questions he urgently…

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From the awkward access to the lawyer’s mansion, Mannering was induced to form very moderate expectations of the entertainment which he was to receive. The approach looked even more dismal…

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It was the middle of 1789; it was in the old world, but on the cusp of a new one. The ancients would have called it a cæsura, a cutting…

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Mankind are, in all ages, caught by the same baits: The same tricks, played over and over again, still trepan them. The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the…

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I am in Britain this week, and impressed by the coverage that the British tory press is giving to the Justice Department scandal in the United States. In their view,…

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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone…

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Scott Horton is at an academic conference in the land of thistles and heather and will be blogging on a reduced schedule until his return to the States next week.

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And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy…

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Scott Horton will be on Air America’s Rachel Maddow Show today, Friday, July 20, from 7:35-8:00 Eastern time, discussing the forthcoming Congressional investigation into the prosecution of Alabama Governor Don…

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Harper’s has received this press release from Dana Jill Simpson concerning recent developments in the Siegelman case, reproduced in full below: Truth is marching on. I will not allow Middle…

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No, we’re not going into competition with our counterparts over at The Atlantic, but this submission from a reader at NYU is too good to pass up, especially in light…

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Congressional investigations on various fronts are now being obstructed at every step by the Bush Administration. Word began circulating during the winter that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who personally developed…

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We may not stop until we have done our part to fashion a world in which there shall be some share of fellowship; which shall be better than a den…

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Six Questions (with a nod to Ken Silverstein) for James Moore, Author of Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential and The Architect: Karl Rove and the…

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