Former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales misled Congress when he claimed the CIA in 2002 approved information that ended up in the 2003 State of the Union speech about Iraq's alleged effort to buy uranium for its nuclear weapons program, a House committee said today. ...more

December 18, 2008

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told investigators that he could not recall whether he took home notes regarding the government's most sensitive national security program and that he did not know they contained classified information, despite his own markings that they were "top secret - eyes only," according to a Justice Department report released Tuesday. ...more

September 3, 2008

As an African American, Ward Connerly uses his skin color to draw attention to his otherwise unremarkable politics: He's a right-wing Republican who hates affirmative action. Now this ideological freak is using Barack Obama's racial heritage (half of it, anyway) to argue that racism is all in the past. ...more

June 13, 2008

The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed President Bush's former chief political adviser, Karl Rove, on Thursday to testify about whether the White House improperly meddled with the Justice Department. ...more

May 23, 2008

An internal watchdog office at the Justice Department is investigating whether Bush administration lawyers violated professional standards by issuing legal opinions authorizing the CIA to use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, officials said Friday. ...more

February 23, 2008

GAINESVILLE - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is scheduled to speak today at the University of Florida in Gainesville. ...more

January 15, 2008

Once again, as the year comes to a close and media outlets across the nation inundate us with a "special look back" at events we already know about, I will use my prognosticating ability - a superpower, if you will - to gaze into the future and predict what will happen in the coming months, just as I have each year since 1929. ...more

December 29, 2007

At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the CIA between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two al-Qaida operatives, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials. ...more

December 19, 2007

Congratulations to Alberto Gonzales, who was recently named 2007 Lawyer of the Year, besting runners-up Alan Shore of "Boston Legal" and Nicky "Neck Brace" Carbone, who won a $6,200 settlement for a woman who claimed mental anguish when a can of squirt cheese exploded in her camper trailer's kitchenette. Isn't it wonderful that a small boy who was the subject of an international custody dispute in 2000, seized at gunpoint by federal agents and returned to his native Cuba amid a firestorm of controversy would be named Lawyer of the Year a mere seven years later. (Note: After Hollifield submitted his column six hours past deadline, we patiently explained that he was confusing Alberto Gonzales, former attorney general of the United States, with Elian Gonzales, the Cuban boy in the custody battle.) ...more

December 18, 2007

President Bush welcomed Michael Mukasey back into government Wednesday and promised to help the new attorney general rebuild the top leadership of the Justice Department. ...more

November 15, 2007