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Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 08/27/2007 Pelosi: ‘Resignation of Attorney General Gonzales Is Long Overdue’ Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: “The resignation of Attorney General Gonzales is long overdue. The rampant politicization of federal law enforcement that occurred under his tenure seriously eroded public confidence in our justice system. “The President must now restore credibility to the office of the Attorney General. Given the serious loss of public trust and the disarray at the Department of Justice, the American people must...

NEW YORK - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist disciples on the outside. The jury deliberated 13 days over the past month before convicting Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene. Stewart slumped in her chair as the verdict was read, shaking her head and later wiping tears from her eyes. Her supporters gasped upon hearing the conviction,...

The face that launched a thousand...? WASHINGTON -- If President Bush has any grand plan for another preemptive war, he had better forget it. Bush has crash landed on the fallacy of the invasion of Iraq. It will take time for the self-described "war president" to make a recovery. It brings to mind an old saying: "Some day they will give a war and nobody will come." The Senate Intelligence Committee recently delivered a thorough trashing to the U.S. intelligence that nourished administration hawks in their rush to invade Iraq. The senators unanimously -- Republicans and Democrats -- rejected the...