Ex-senator questions Fitzgerald's case
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Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., criticized Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's handling of the CIA leak investigation Tuesday, saying the prosecutor had to have known from the start that it was not a crime to disclose Valerie Plame's identity as an agent.
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In Georgia, advocates of Genarlow Wilson want to change the law to win his freedom. But the  state senate isn't about to budge.
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Questions to be asked over whether there was ever a realistic chance of prosecutions.
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A spokesman for the Idaho Republican said the senator has all but abandoned the notion of trying to finish his term.
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It was not clear if the investigation into Mr. Gonzalesâs statements to Congress is tied to the attorney generalâs announcement that he was resigning from the Justice Department.
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A former interim U.S. attorney appointed by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales defended his decision to bring a controversial indictment before last year's elections, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had no idea Missouri Republicans would use the case as part of their campaign...
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For three years, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew the answer to one of the biggest questions in Washington: Who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame?
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A leading Senate Democrat asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday to clear up apparent conflicts in testimony from Gonzales and former top Justice Department officials about the firing of federal prosecutors and other matters.
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One of presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam war comrades, who had appeared to back off his criticism of Kerry's war record, recanted on Friday and said, yes, in fact he did question whether the U.S. senator deserved his medals.
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The former Treasury secretary is having second thoughts about how to make globalization work for the middle class.
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Nearly 40 years ago, a U.S. senator  from South Dakota suffered an illness that sidelined him for  years, yet he kept his Senate seat.
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By Chris Niskanen, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 17--One of my last conversations with departing De-partment of Natural Resources Commissioner Gene Merriam was a rare moment of clarity between the press and government.
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A Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he might consider opposing Michael Mukasey's nomination for attorney general if the former judge says waterboarding is not torture.
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One of the best-known US senators says he has been misidentified as someone on a terrorism watch list at airports in recent months.
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Has Zell Miller lost his mind? Some of his party members think so. Republicans think not. The retiring U.S. senator from Georgia has never shied from the outlandish, but this time is a doozy.
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A leading U.S. Senate Republican  this week demanded internal documents from Merck & Co. Inc.  MRK.N that could answer questions about the company's  interaction with U.S. regulators over its arthritis drug Vioxx.
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The former deputy secretary of state said he held back at the request of Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor.