Former Bush counsel faces possible contempt charges
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A divided congressional panel moved toward bringing contempt charges against former White House counsel Harriet Miers on Thursday after she refused to appear at a hearing on the firing of federal prosecutors.
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Former Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett, who provided CBS News with possibly fraudulent documents purporting to show that President Bush shirked his Guard duty, is looking for a lawyer
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AUSTIN, Texas - A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry's campaign.    Also, a White House official said Saturday that Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to show he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972 and did not recall having seen them previously...
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A closed-door hearing beginning Wednesday will deal with a crucial issue in the trial of a former White House aide: whether President Bush's daily terrorism briefings and other sensitive documents should be disclosed in the CIA leak case.
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Former White House aide Sara M. Taylor will refuse to testify today about matters President Bush has deemed shielded by executive privilege, but she will offer to respond to other questions from senators that do not breach White House confidentiality, her attorney said yesterday.
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The House is moving toward a vote to hold two presidential confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether federal prosecutors were ousted for political reasons.
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FORT HOOD, Texas - A lawyer for a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal claims that public positions taken by President Bush and military leaders have made it impossible for his client to get a fair trial by a military jury.
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A California man who works at a decommissioned nuclear power plant was arraigned on Monday on charges of mailing threatening letters containing baking soda to a country club President George W. Bush is due to visit this week.
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- Federal prosecutors are investigating whether criminal contempt charges should be pursued against a defense lawyer who admitted leaking an FBI tape to a reporter, then lying about it.
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U.S. lawmakers escalated their battle with the White House on Wednesday by recommending contempt citations against an aide and a former aide of President George W. Bush who refused to cooperate in a probe of the firing of federal prosecutors.
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If a prosecutor calls him as a witness, Vice President Dick Cheney probably can&#039;t avoid testifying in his former chief of staff&#039;s perjury trial, legal experts said Thursday.
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With the former White House Counsel defying Congress, the battle over executive privilege is heating up
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Appellate judges questioned Monday whether a judge erred in barring some testimony from the trial that convicted a former Bush administration official of lying about his relationship with Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Contempt of court orders against Time magazine and one of its reporters were dismissed after the journalist agreed to give a statement to prosecutors probing the Bush administration leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
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The case of a U.S. defense lawyer  charged with aiding terrorism is a troubling matter for a jury  that may be split into supporters of President Bush and those  who think his anti-terrorism policies threaten civil rights.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday he was ready to go to court if the White House resisted subpoenas for information on the firing of federal prosecutors.
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The attorney for a former White House aide told Congress on Saturday he expects the Bush administration to try to block the aide from testifying on last year's firings of U.S. prosecutors, as the White House and Congress appeared headed for a court battle.