White House pulls nomination for top CIA lawyer
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The White House withdrew the nomination of John Rizzo to be the CIA's top attorney on Tuesday after months of controversy over his role in the agency's interrogation policy.
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The decision to withdraw his  nomination as U.S. homeland security secretary over a personal  controversy was made by Bernard Kerik himself, the White House  and Kerik said on Saturday.
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With the former White House Counsel refusing to appear on Capitol Hill, the showdown over Bush's executive privilege is heating up
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Bernard Kerik abruptly withdrew his nomination as secretary of homeland security last week amid a growing controversy over his background and suitability for the job.
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A former CIA official subpoenaed by Congress over his role in the destruction of interrogation videotapes will not appear at a hearing by lawmakers this week, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Embattled Alberto Gonzales joins the exodus of top-level officials from the White House.
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So much for Bernard Kerik as the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. In a terse e-mail late Friday night, the White House announced Kerik&#39;s withdrawal because of &quot;personal reasons.
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President George Bush announced Wednesday his nomination of current White House Legal Counsel Alberto Gonzales to replace Attorney General John Ashcroft, who submitted his resignation on Tuesday.
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The White House is having some  trouble finding a new intelligence chief to oversee all U.S.  spying programs, with a high-profile candidate spurning the job  six weeks after the search began.
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The White House renominated the Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques.
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President Bush on Wednesday nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who helped shape the administration's controversial legal strategy in the war on terror, to be attorney general. He would be the first Hispanic to serve as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
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Former New York top cop Bernard Kerik abruptly pulled his nomination as President Bush&#39;s new homeland security boss last night, saying he feared an embarrassing nanny scandal.
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WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush has nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as attorney general.
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The case has pulled back the curtain on elite Washington and the inner workings of a White House known for secrecy.
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The Bush administration is urging a former White House political director to ignore a subpoena and not testify before Congress about the firings of federal prosecutors, her lawyer says.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush moved quickly to nominate White House lawyer Alberto Gonzales yesterday to replace Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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George W. Bush announced that he will nominate Alberto Gonzales, current White House counsel and a trusted advisor from his days in Texas, to replace John Ashcroft as the nation&#39;s top law enforcement official.