Attorney General
Mukasey’s Answers to Torture Questions Unsatisfying to the Senate
Potential U.S. Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey leaves senators unsettled as he refuses to definitively classify waterboarding as torture.
Attorney General Gonzales is Next to Go
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is the latest member of the Bush regime to resign his post.
Mukasey Set to Be Next Us Attorney General
Michael Mukasey is set to become the next US attorney general after the Senate judiciary committee today voted to move his nomination to the full Senate.
New Blow to Bush As Attorney General Resigns
· Gonzales bows to pressure after series of scandals · Last but one of president's original White House team
Calls Grow for Bush's Attorney General to Quit
Papers suggest Gonzales lied over sacking of judges - Republicans fear president will lose ability to lead
Pressure Increases on Us Attorney General to Resign
The US attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, is fighting to hang onto his job as the political pressure on him to resign continues to grow.
Attorney General Calls for Guantánamo to Close
The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, said today that Guantánamo Bay had become a "symbol of injustice" and called for the US base to be closed.
Miller's Family to Meet Attorney General
Relatives of James Miller, the British cameraman shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza three years ago, will today meet the attorney general. By Jason Deans.
The President, the Stripper and the Attorney General
The extraordinary legal defence of George Bush's domestic spying reads like a blend of Kafka, le Carré and Mel Brooks. By Sidney Blumenthal
Attorney General Told Blair War Could Be Illegal
Tony Blair was told by the government's most senior law officer in a confidential minute less than two weeks before the war that British participation in the American-led invasion of Iraq could be declared illegal.
Former Us Attorney General Joins Saddam Defence Team
Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general, has joined Saddam Hussein's legal team to contest before a special tribunal charges of committing wholesale atrocities.
Bush Names New Attorney General
George Bush named Alberto Gonzales, the White House lawyer who advised him he could disregard the "obsolete" Geneva conventions, as America's new attorney general yesterday. Unveiling the first new cabinet appointment since his re-election last week, Mr Bush said the 49-year-old had...
US attorney general to limit plea bargains
US lawyers yesterday accused the attorney general, John Ashcroft, of trying to establish a centralised, arbitrary and draconian justice system after he issued an edict limiting prosecutors' use of plea bargains in determining sentences.
'20th Hijacker' Taunts Us Attorney General With Quiz
In a gambit surely unprecedented in US legal history, Zacarias Moussaoui, awaiting trial for conspiracy in the September 11 attacks, has set the US attorney general a multiple choice quiz, offering a seat at his execution as a mock reward for getting the right answer. The suspected...
Michael Mukasey is set to become the next US attorney general after the Senate judiciary committee today voted to move his nomination to the full Senate.
New Blow to Bush As Attorney General Resigns
· Gonzales bows to pressure after series of scandals · Last but one of president's original White House team
Calls Grow for Bush's Attorney General to Quit
Papers suggest Gonzales lied over sacking of judges - Republicans fear president will lose ability to lead
Pressure Increases on Us Attorney General to Resign
The US attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, is fighting to hang onto his job as the political pressure on him to resign continues to grow.
Attorney General Calls for Guantánamo to Close
The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, said today that Guantánamo Bay had become a "symbol of injustice" and called for the US base to be closed.
Miller's Family to Meet Attorney General
Relatives of James Miller, the British cameraman shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza three years ago, will today meet the attorney general. By Jason Deans.
The President, the Stripper and the Attorney General
The extraordinary legal defence of George Bush's domestic spying reads like a blend of Kafka, le Carré and Mel Brooks. By Sidney Blumenthal
Attorney General Told Blair War Could Be Illegal
Tony Blair was told by the government's most senior law officer in a confidential minute less than two weeks before the war that British participation in the American-led invasion of Iraq could be declared illegal.
Former Us Attorney General Joins Saddam Defence Team
Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general, has joined Saddam Hussein's legal team to contest before a special tribunal charges of committing wholesale atrocities.
Bush Names New Attorney General
George Bush named Alberto Gonzales, the White House lawyer who advised him he could disregard the "obsolete" Geneva conventions, as America's new attorney general yesterday. Unveiling the first new cabinet appointment since his re-election last week, Mr Bush said the 49-year-old had...
US attorney general to limit plea bargains
US lawyers yesterday accused the attorney general, John Ashcroft, of trying to establish a centralised, arbitrary and draconian justice system after he issued an edict limiting prosecutors' use of plea bargains in determining sentences.
'20th Hijacker' Taunts Us Attorney General With Quiz
In a gambit surely unprecedented in US legal history, Zacarias Moussaoui, awaiting trial for conspiracy in the September 11 attacks, has set the US attorney general a multiple choice quiz, offering a seat at his execution as a mock reward for getting the right answer. The suspected...