links for 2007-03-25

• Documents show Gonzales approved firings: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in a November meeting, according to documents released Friday that contradict earlier claims that he was not closely involved in the
  (tags: 20070323 bushisms)
• Burson-Marsteller maintains strong ties with law firms, associations, think tanks and other organizations that influence labor policy and address labor issues. We work closely with Professor Jarol Manheim of George Washington University, who wrote The Dea
  (tags: 20070323 labor politics)
• March 12, 2007: Alberto Gonzales: "I was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on … That’s basically what I knew as attorney general." March 23: New documents released tonight, “including Gonzales
  (tags: 20070323 bushisms)
• Paul Kiel: As both The New York Times and The Washington Post have reported, a number of the federal prosecutors who were fired in December had initially decided to go quietly... until, that is, the Justice Department declared publicly that they had been
  (tags: 20070323 bushisms)
• Nicholas Confessore: There have always been columnists who, for better or worse, commanded the greatest attention of their day. Think of Walter Lippmann during the postwar consensus, Joseph Kraft during the Vietnam era, or George Will during the Reagan ye
  (tags: 20070324 economics media bushisms journamalism)
• Marty Lederman: "[s]ome administration lawyers are deeply reluctant to move terrorism suspects to American soil because it could increase their constitutional and statutory rights." In particular, if the GTMO detainees facility were transferred to a U.S.
  (tags: 20070324 law bushisms guantanamo constitution)