In March 2005, a month after Alberto Gonzales became U.S. attorney general, Justice Department staffers sent to the White House a chart ranking all 93 U.S. attorneys in terms of their allegiance to President George W. Bush and his administration.

On…

Weird: Texas jury indicts Alberto Gonzales and Dick Cheney. Seriously. I am not making this up.

Joe Lieberman uses his get-out-of-jail-free card to escape serious retribution from the Democrats in the Senate over his campaign-season antics.

President-elect Barack Obama is serious about change.

Someone fell for…

U.S. Sen. Christopher"Kit" Bond

Thanks to its senior U.S. senator, Republican Christopher S. “Kit” Bond, Missouri earned last-minute inclusion in the national scandal over the Bush administration’s politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys.

“The Purge,” as it was known when the story broke…

THICKBURGERS AS
HEALTH FOOD

Once upon a time, kiddies, there was no such thing as a 1,420-calorie, 107-fat-gram fast-food hamburger. You couldn’t get a 900-calorie breakfast burrito.

Then came the Hardee’s restaurant chain, originator of what’s been dubbed “fast-food porn,” and the “heart…

John C. Yoo is a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley. From 2001 through 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. It was there that…

For anyone interested in diving into the torture pool, which was the subject of my oped column of April 9, there’s no shortage of original documents on the subject. Here are links to a few that are mentioned in the column –…