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Ashcroft not fully lucid during March 2004 Gonzales visit: FBI director notes
Personal notes by FBI Director Robert Mueller released Thursday reveal that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft was "feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed" when current Attorney General and then-White House counsel Alberto Go (More) |
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FBI director notes from March 2004 Ashcroft-Gonzales meeting [FBI]
FBI Director Robert Mueller's personal notes, Federal Bureau of Investigation, August 14, 2007 . Read the full text of the notes . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Somali man pleads guilty to plotting terror attacks in US
Nuradin Abdi, a Somali national accused of planning terror attacks on shopping malls in the US, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists Tuesday. Under the plea agreement [PDF text; statement of facts, PDF] Abdi will s (More) |
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Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenas Rove in US Attorney firings probe
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) issued subpoenas for White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Deputy Director of Political Affairs J. Scott Jennings Thursday in the ongoing probe of the US Attorney firings scandal , ordering R (More) |
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Senate Democrats ask for special counsel to probe possible Gonzales perjury
Four Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Solicitor General Paul Clement Thursday asking Clement to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "may have misled Congres (More) |
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Gonzales denies pressing hospitalized Ashcroft to recertify surveillance program
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday denied pressuring then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to give the Department of Justice's reauthorization of the controversial warrantless domestic surveillance program while Ashcroft was hospit (More) |
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Senate committee issues subpoenas for domestic surveillance documents
The US Senate Judiciary Committee issued formal subpoenas to the White House, the Vice President's Office, the Department of Justice, and the National Security Council Wednesday, seeking documents related to the warrantless domestic surveilla (More) |
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Former FISC judge criticizes warrantless wiretapping program
A former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge criticized US President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program Saturday in an address to the American Library Association's annual convention in Washington. The program has a (More) |
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Bush administration was divided on legality of warrantless wiretaps: Ashcroft
Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday at a closed-door hearing held by the US House Intelligence Committee that there had been divisions between members of the Bush administration as to whether the president's warrantless wire (More) |
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Federal appeals court allows ex-9/11 detainee to sue Ashcroft, Mueller
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that Javaid Iqbal, who alleges he was detained "solely because of race, religion, and national origin" following the September 11 terrorist attacks and subjected to mistreatm (More) |
Montgomery started racially-integrated bus service after boycott
On December 21, 1956, buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially-integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation.
Bus boycott leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were among the first riders under the new scheme. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
