Alberto R. Gonzales/External Links

The following are external articles related to the main article on Alberto R. Gonzales and his time as head of the Bush Justice Department.

Biographical Profiles

• White House Biography: Alberto R. Gonzales.
• Who's Who in the White House, Washington Post, updated February 16, 2004.

White House Counsel

• Alberto Gonzales: A Record of Injustice as White House Counsel, by the Center for American Progress.
• Mike Allen, "Counsel to Assertive Presidency," Washington Post, May 19, 2003.

War on Terrorism

• Summary of White House legal memos and decisions on the "War on Terror," from lawofwar.org.

Treatment of Prisoners

• See Bush administration and torture for details.
• Gonzales memo to Bush on prisoner treatment (PDF file), January 25, 2002.
• Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, "Gonzales's Views on the Question of Torture," Newsweek, November 22, 2004.

Patriot Act abuses

• John Solomon, "Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations. After Bureau Sent Reports, Attorney General Said He Knew of No Wrongdoing," Washington Post, July 10, 2007.

U.S. Attorney General

• Transcript: President Nominates Judge Al Gonzales as Next Attorney General, Remarks by the President and Attorney General Nominee Judge Alberto Gonzales, White House, Office of the White House Press Secretary, November 10, 2004.
• Joe Strupp, "APME Comments Suggest Gonzales Won't Be a Press-Friendly A.G.," Editor and Publisher, November 10, 2004.
• Andrew Buncombe, "Bush selects evangelical for attorney general post," The Independent, November 11, 2004.
• Dan Eggen, "Gonzales Named to Succeed Ashcroft as Attorney General," Washington Post, November 11, 2004.
• Dan Froomkin, "Deciding What's Salient About Gonzales," Washington Post, November 11, 2004.
• Jennifer Loven, "Bush's Attorney General Nominee Key Player," Associated Press, November 11, 2004.
• Elisabeth Bumiller and Neil A. Lewis, "Choice of Gonzales May Blaze a Trail for the High Court," New York Times, November 12, 2004.
• "Evaluation of the likely impact of Attorney General Nominee Alberto Gonzales on Press Freedoms and the Public's Right to Know," The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, November 15, 2004.
• Nat Hentoff, "Liberty Beat: Worse than Ashcroft: Bush's new attorney general helped write the Patriot Act and supported torture," Village Voice, November 29, 2004.
• Darryl Fears, "Rights Groups Urge Scrutiny of Gonzales," Washington Post, November 30, 2004.
• Hamilton Nolan, "Watchdogs look to color Gonzales before hearing," PRWeek, January 10, 2005.
• Edward M. Kennedy, "Dear Mr. Gonzales," TruthOut.org, January 10, 2005.
• Edward M. Kennedy, Kennedy Urges Senate to Deny Gonzales Nomination Over Torture Policies" posted on Kennedy's Senate website, February 1, 2005.
• Eric Lichtblau, "Report Says Gonzales Mishandled Classified Items," New York Times, September 2, 2008.

Operation FALCON

• Mike Whitney, "The Secret Raids of Alberto Gonzales. Operation Falcon: 10,000 Swept Up," CounterPunch, May 18, 2005.

Treasongate: Beyond Karl Rove

• "Alberto Gonzales's Role in the Plame Cover-Up," Discourse.net, March 12, 2007.

Domestic Surveillance

• See Bush administration warrantless wiretapping for details.
• David E. Sanger and John O'Neil, "White House Begins New Effort to Defend Surveillance Program," New York Times, January 23, 2006: "Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who led the National Security Agency when it began the warrantless wiretaps, vigorously defended the program, though he acknowledged that it depended on a lower standard of evidence than required by courts."
• Glenn Greenwald, "The Administration's new FISA defense is factually false," Unclaimed Territory, January 24, 2006; "Follow-up on the DeWine issue," January 25, 2006.
• Murray Waas, "Internal Affairs. Aborted DOJ Probe Probably Would Have Targeted Gonzales," National Journal, March 15, 2007.
• Murray Waas, "Secret Order by Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers to Aides" National Journal, April 30 2007.
• Editorial: "Mr. Gonzales’s Incredible Adventure," New York Times, May 17, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, "The President's Secret Program: A Timeline," TPMmuckraker, May 17, 2007.
• Murray Waas, "The Case of the Gonzales Notes," the Atlantic, Swpt. 26, 2008.
• Murray Waas, "What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?" The Atlantic, Sept. 26, 2008.
• Murray Waas, "Dropped Call: Alberto Gonzales Won't Be Charged Over Testimony," New York Magazine, Nov. 23, 2009.

Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy

Testimony

• April 19, 2007: Congressional Testimony by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
• May 10, 2007: Congressional Testimony by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

External articles

• David Johnston and Eric Lipton, "U.S. Report to Fault F.B.I. on Subpoenas," New York Times, March 9, 2007.
• "Analysis: Patriot Woes Weigh on Gonzales," Townhall.com, March 9, 2007.
• Bernard Hibbitts, "Gonzales drops opposition to tighter controls on US Attorney replacement," JURIST, March 9, 2007.
• Laurie Kellman, "White House in retreat on flap over US attorneys. Gonzales offers concessions after firing of eight," Associated Press (Boston Globe), March 9, 2007.
• Andrew Cohen, "The Department of InJustice," Bench Conference Blog / Washington Post, March 9, 2007.
• Paul Kane and Michael Abramowitz, "Gonzales Tries to Mollify GOP Critics on Firings, FBI Missteps," Washington Post, March 10, 2007.
• Dan Eggen, "After Tough Week, Gonzales Says He Remains Focused," Washington Post, March 11, 2007.
• Josh Gerstein, "Gonzales Said To Stonewall a GOP Query. Probe of Leaks Are at Center of Inquiries From the Right," New York Sun, March 12, 2007.
• Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Jeff Zeleny, "'Mistakes' Made on Prosecutors, Gonzales Says," New York Times, March 14, 2007.
• Murray Waas, "Internal Affairs. Aborted DOJ Probe Probably Would Have Targeted Gonzales," National Journal, March 15, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, "Gonzales Apologizes to USAs," TPMmuckraker, March 17, 2007.
• Frank Rich "When Will Afredo Get Whacked?" New York Times, March 25, 2007.
• Mark Silva, "'A question of credibility'. Senators demand explanation from attorney general," Baltimore Sun, March 26, 2007.
• Bryan Bender, "Key GOP senators criticize Gonzales. Doubt credibility on role in firings," Boston Globe, March 26, 2007.
• David G. Savage, "Gonzales feels heat from GOP senators," Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2007.
• Lara Jakes Jordan, "Gonzales Preps for Senate Showdown," Associated Press (TIME), April 3, 2007.
• Editorial: "Acting attorney general," PalmBeachPost.com, April 6, 2007: "Three-plus weeks into the controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, this is the best defense Attorney General Alberto Gonzales can make: I'm not in charge of the Justice Department."
• Andrew Cohen, "Rough Justice - The Case Against Alberto Gonzales" (4-part series), Bench Conference Blog/Washington Post, April 7, 2007.
• Dan Eggen, "House Panel Subpoenas Gonzales for Documents," Washington Post, April 10, 2007.
• Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor, "Gonzales could be back door to Rove," McClatchy Newspapers (The News & Observer), April 15, 2007.
• Jan Crawford Greenburg and Ariane de Vogue, "Gonzales Contradicts His Own Testimony. Recently Released E-Mails Show Attorney General's Involvement in Attorney Firing Talks," ABC News, April 16, 2007.
• David Johnston, "Ex-Aide Says Gonzales Discussed Firings," New York Times, April 17, 2007.
• Kevin Bohn, "Gonzales to face tough questions on attorney firings," CNN, April 18, 2007.
• Dan Eggen, "Gonzales to Admit Mistakes in Firings," Washington Post, April 19, 2007.
• Laurie Kellman, "Gonzales to Appear Before Senate Panel," Associated Press (ABC News), April 19, 2007.
• Thomas Ferraro, "Gonzales to testify today about fired prosecutors," Reuters (Washington Post), April 19, 2007.
• Dahlia Lithwick, "Al, the President's Man. Alberto Gonzales is bloodied by his trip to the Senate," Slate, April 20, 2007.
• Susan Crabtree and Klaus Marre, "GOP leans on Gonzales," The Hill, April 20, 2007.
• Dan Eggen and Paul Kane, "Senators Chastise Gonzales at Hearing. Members of His Own Party Pile On as Attorney General Defends Firings," Washington Post, April 20, 2007.
• Dana Milbank, "Maybe Gonzales Won't Recall His Painful Day on the Hill," Washington Post, April 20, 2007.
• Editorial: "Gonzales v. Gonzales," New York Times, April 20, 2007.
• Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "On a Very Hot Seat With Little Cover and Less Support," New York Times, April 21, 2007.
• Sridhar Pappu, "Rough Week, Alberto? You Could Say That," Washington Post, April 21, 2007.
• John Heilprin, "Specter: Gonzales Undermines AG's Office," Associated Press (ABC News), April 22, 2007.
• Diana Jean Schemo, "Specter Says Gonzales Presence Is 'Harmful'," New York Times, April 23, 2007.
• Eric Pfeiffer, "GOP hits Gonzales' 'harmful' testimony," Washington Times, April 23, 2007.
• "AG: Let's get past firings," Associated Press (Newsday), April 24, 2007.
• Jim Rutenberg and Neil A. Lewis, "Bush Reaffirms His Support for Gonzales," New York Times, April 24, 2007.
• Peter S. Canellos, "Support of Gonzales Affirms Power Play," Boston Globe, April 24, 2007. Bush administration "willingness to withstand its own party's disdain for Gonzales probably springs not from loyalty but from self-interest: The last thing the president needs right now is confirmation hearings for a new attorney general."
• Murray Waas, "Secret Order By Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers To Aides," National Journal, April 30, 2007.
• Scott Horton, "The Gleichschaltung at Justice", Harper's, May 1, 2007.
• Chris Sullentropp, "Gonzales' Suspicious Omission" New York Times [Opinionator blog}, May 1, 2007.
• Eric Lipton and David Johnston,"Justice Department Announces Inquiry Into Hiring", New York Times, May 3, 2007.
• Murray Waas,"Justice Official Says He Was Directed to Call Fired Prosecutors" National Journal, May 3, 2007.
• Murray Waas, "Administration Withheld Emails about Rove" National Journal, May 10, 2007.
• Laurie Kellman, "Gonzales Faces More Senate Questioning," Associated Press (Forbes), July 24, 2007.
• Amanda Terkel, "Specter Proposes Special Prosecutor To Investigate U.S. Attorney Scandal," Think Progress, July 24, 2007.
• Murray Waas, "Justice Department Reopens Probe into Warantless Domestic Spying",the Huffington Post, Nov. 14, 2007.
• Murray Waas, "Bush Appointees Attempted to Thwart U.S. Attorney Probe," personal blog, Sept. 28, 2008.
• Murray Waas, "The Dog Days of Summer and Executive Privilege,Murray Waas personal blog, Aug. 7, 2008.
• Murray Waas, "The Case of the Gonzales Notes," the Atlantic, Swpt. 28, 2008.
• Murray Waas, "What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?" The Atlantic, Sept. 26, 2008.
• John Amato, "Bush Appointees Attemted to Thwart U.S. Attorney Probe," Crooks & Liars, Sept. 27, 2008.
• Murray Waas & Justin Rood, "Report: White House Inolved in U.S. Attorney Firings," ABCNews.com, Sept. 29, 2008.
• Marisa Taylor, "Taxpayers Will Pay for Gonzales' Private Attorney," McClatchey Newspapers, Nov. 18, 2008.
• Damozel,"Murray Waas: Rove to Cooperate...Or Not? Who Knows!" Buck Naked Politics, Feb. 3, 2009.
• Murray Waas, "A U.S. Attorney's Story," the Atlantic, April 20, 2009.
• Debra Cassens Weiss, ""Ex-AG Reportedly Intervened for Lawmaker to Stop Wiretap Stop," ABA Journal, April 24, 2009.
• Anna Schecter and Murray Waas, "DOJ Official Breached Ethics Playing Golf," ABCNews.com, May 1, 2009.
• Murray Waas, "Bush Administration Leaks Bolstered Renzi's Reelection Bid," the Hill, June 24, 2009.
• Sam Stein, "Obama Renominates U.S. Attorney Fired by Bush," Huffington Post, July 31, 2009.
• Steve Friess, "Familiar Face Reappears for Key Role in Nevada," New York Times, July 31, 2009.
• Murray Waas, "Justice Done at Justice: U.S. Attorney Fired by Bush Administration Rehired for Old Job by Obama," personal blog, Aug. 6, 2009.
• Murray Waas, "Former U.S. Attorney Condemns White House Interference With Renzi Probe," Huffington Post, Aug. 12, 2009.
• Stephanie Woodrow, "Rove Aide Asked Miers to Help Clear Republican's Name," Main Justice, August 12, 2009.

Live blogging Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Alberto Gonzales

• Questionnaire from Senate Committee on the Judiciary to Alberto Gonzales for July 24, 2007, appearance, July 17, 2007.
• Statement of Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, July 24, 2007.
• Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake Blog, July 24, 2007:

• Alberto Gonzales Testimony: Part I; Part II; Part III;Part IV; Part V.

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, July 24, 2007:

• Changing the Rules"
• "AGAG's Just Given Cheney the Keys to the DOJ Kingdom"

• "Gonzales Contradicts Prior Statements, Confirms Existence Of Other Spying Programs," Think Progress, July 24, 2007.
• Faiz Shakir, "Schumer Rips Gonzales Over Contradictory Reponses On Spying Program," Think Progress, July 24, 2007.
• Amanda Terkel, "Specter Proposes Special Prosecutor To Investigate U.S. Attorney Scandal," Think Progress, July 24, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, July 24, 2007:

• "Leahy, Specter Lay in to Gonzales"
• "Gonzales: 'That's a Good Question'"
• "Gonzales Unsure of How Many USAs He Fired"

• Spencer Ackerman, TPMmuckraker, July 24, 2007:

• "Gonzales: NSL Abuses Weren't Really Abuses"
• "Gonzales: I Only Visited Ashcroft's Hospital Bed Because Congress Wanted It"
• "Gonzales: 'Not So Clear' That Waterboarding Violates Geneva Common Article 3"

• Digby, "Depends On What The Definition Of Program Is," Hullabaloo Blogspot, July 24, 2007.
• "Internal Affairs", National Journal, March 15, 2007, and "Reposted"
• "Secret Order by Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers to his Aides," National Journal, April 20, 2007.
• "Justice Official Says He Was Directed to Call Fired Prosecutors" National Journal, May 3, 2007.
• "Administration Withheld Emails about Rove" National Journal, May 10, 2007.
• "The Scales of Justice" National Journal, May 31, 2007.

Gonzales "lawyers up"

• Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, "Gonzales Hires a Top Gun. Still under investigation by Congress and Justice Department lawyers who once worked for him, the former attorney general has turned to a leading Washington attorney to help him beat the rap," Newsweek/MSNBC, October 10, 2007.
• "Gonzales lawyers up for investigations," Think Progress, October 10, 2007.
• Morgan Sandlin, "Gonzales Lawyers Up," The Daily Kos, October 10, 2007.
• Deep Harm, "Gonzales' defense attorney speaks," The Daily Kos, October 10, 2007.
• B Merryfield, "Defending Gonzales - lessons learned from Iran-Contra," The Daily Kos, October 11, 2007.

Congressional no confidence and calls for resignation

• Jesse Westbrook, "Schumer Calls for Attorney General Gonzales to Resign (Update1)," Bloomberg News, March 11, 2007.
• "'Bring us the head of Alberto Gonzales'," Capitol Hill Blue, March 11, 2007.
• Editorial: "The Failed Attorney General," New York Times, March 11, 2007.
• Rob Kezellis, "Alberto Gonzales—the American Fox in the Hen house," Capitol Hill Blue, March 11, 2007.
• Nico Pitney, "Sen. Schumer Calls For Alberto Gonzales To Resign," Think Progress, March 11, 2007. Includes video link.
• Walter F. Roche Jr., "Gonzales is urged to quit 'for the nation'. Sen. Charles Schumer says the attorney general has politicized the Justice Department," Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2007.
• "Meltdown at Justice. Incompetence is compromising presidential power," WSJ OpinionJournal, March 12, 2007.
• Raymond Hernandez, "Gonzales Should Quit, Senator Says," New York Times, March 12, 2007.
• Joe Conason, "Alberto Gonzales must go. The U.S. attorney general's willingness to serve as the president's ultimate yes man makes him unqualified for the office," Salon, March 12, 2007.
• Andrew Cohen, "Rough Justice - The Case Against Alberto Gonzales" (Part 1), Washington Post, March 13, 2007.
• Lara Jakes Jordan, "Gonzales: Prosecutors Firings Mishandled," Associated Press (Chicago Tribune), March 13, 2007.
• Ruth Marcus, "Time to Go, Mr. Gonzales," Washington Post, March 14, 2007.
• "Editorial Pages Call for Axing Attorney General," Editor & Publisher, March 14, 2007.
• James Rowley and Robert Schmidt, "Gonzales Has Few Republican Defenders on Prosecutors (Update2)," Bloomberg News, March 14, 2007.
• Dan Froomkin, "Is Gonzales a Diversion?" Washington Post, March 14, 2007.
• Laurie Kellman, "Sununu Calls for Gonzales' Dismissal," Associated Press (ABC News), March 14, 2007.
• Nico Pitney, "Schumer: White House Holding 'Active And Avid Discussion' Over Gonzales Resignation," Think Progress, March 15, 2007.
• The GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Alberto Gonzales, BuzzFlash, March 16, 2007.
• Opinion: "Gonzales' Costly Bungles," National Review Online (CBS News), March 16, 2007.
• "CBS Says Gonzales Will Exit Soon -- As McClatchy Reports His Apology to Attorneys," Editor & Publisher, March 16, 2007.
• John Hendren, "Gonzales Survival Prospects Called 'Slim to None'," ABC News, March 17, 2007.
• SilentPatriot, "Sen. Schumer: 'We do have evidence' Gonzales lied under oath," Crooks and Liars, March 18, 2007.
• Andrew Zajac, "Gonzales emerging as Bush’s creation," Buffalo News, March 18, 2007 (updated).
• Natasha Korecki, "Durbin joins call for Gonzales to quit, cites 'crisis of confidence'," Chicago Sun-Times, March 18, 2007.
• Mario Parker, "Three Republican Senators Question Gonzales's Candor on Firings," Bloomberg News, March 25, 2007.
• Commentary: "Stepping down is best move for Gonzales," Chicago Sun-Times, March 18, 2007.
• Lara Jakes Jordan, "Support for Gonzales Erodes on the Hill," Associated Press (Washington Post), March 26, 2007.
• Editors, "Time to Go," National Review Online, March 28, 2007.
• Dan Eggen and Paul Kane, "Gonzales Prepares to Fight for His Job in Testimony," Washington Post, April 5, 2007.
• "Gonzales Says He's Staying on the Job," Associated Press (ABC News), April 24, 2007.
• John Aravosis, "Senate Democrats considering possible 'no confidence' vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales," AMERICAblog, April 24, 2007. From Roll Call (subscription required).
• Holly Rosenkrantz and Joe Sobczyk, "Bush's 'Confidence' May Not Mean Gonzales Is Secure (Update1)," Bloomberg News, April 24, 2007.
• Editorial: "Unfit for chief law enforcer," Boston Globe, May 17, 2007.
• "GOP's Hagel joins calls for Gonzales' resignation," CNN, May 17, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, "Dem Senators to Seek Gonzales No-Confidence Vote," TPMmuckraker, May 17, 2007.
• Will Thomas, "GOP Gonzales Resignation Roll Call Returns," TPMmuckraker, May 17, 2007.
• Opinion: "Badgering a Sick Man," Buffalo News, May 18, 2007.
• David Johnston and Neil A. Lewis, "Senate Democrats Plan a Resolution on Gonzales," New York Times, May 18, 2007.
• Thomas Ferraro, "Democrats seek 'no confidence' vote on Gonzales," Reuters, May 18, 2007.
• "Gonzales Rapped As Bush's 'Yes Man'. Critics Say Attorney General's Ties To White House Harm Justice Department," Associated Press (CBS News), May 19, 2007.
• Chitra Ragavan, "Getting in Deeper... Another week reveals more lapses in judgment by the Bush team," U.S. News & World Report, May 20, 2007.
• Hope Yen, "Specter says Gonzales might quit before vote. Some Republicans would express no confidence," Associated Press (Boston Globe), May 21, 2007.
• Eric Pfeiffer, "Gonzales exit urged before Hill vote," Washington Times, May 21, 2007.

Resignation August 27, 2007

• Pete Williams and Domenico Montanaro, "Behind Gonzales' Resignation," First Read/MSNBC, August 27, 2007.
• Andrew Cohen, "Don't Go Away Mad, Alberto, Just Go Away," Bench Conference Blog/Washington Post, August 27, 2007.
• Steve Benen, "Worst. AG. Ever," The Carpetbagger Report, August 27, 2007.
• "PFAW on Gonzales Resignation: It’s High Time," People for the American Way, August 27, 2007.
• Joe Sudbay, "Reactions to Gonzo's Resignation," AMERICAblog, August 27, 2007.

Other Issues

• John Solomon and Peter Baker, "White House Looked Past Alarms on Kerik. Giuliani, Gonzales Pushed DHS Bid Forward," Washington Post, April 8, 2007. re Bernard Kerik, Rudy Giuliani
• John Solomon and Peter Baker, "How White House tripped badly over Giuliani's pal," Washington Post (Seattle Times), April 10, 2007.
• Eric Lichtblau, "Report Says Gonzales Mishandled Classified Items," New York Times, September 2, 2008.