Guess what? I had no idea this had happened, but apparently some of my reporting was mentioned on the radio this past Wednesday!
I got an email from Brad Friedman of BRAD BLOG yesterday telling me that in an interview he did with Dori Smith of Pacifica affiliate WHUS (a radio station in Connecticut), the host […]
By January, Administration officials were already worried about whether or not there would be political fallout from the prosecutor firings that had taken place the previous month.
At the time, Senator Diane Feinstein’s (D-Calif) office was trying to contact Kevin Ryan, the US Attorney for Northern California. Newly-released emails show that Department of Justice staff were […]
According to emails released by the Department of Justice late Friday evening, DoJ officials tried to manufacture public reasons for firing several US Attorneys late last year.
Two-hundred and eighty-three pages of emails and other documents were released Friday that were not part of the Justice Department’s initial 3,100 page document dump Monday. Among the sensitive […]
Breaking from NBC News: newly released documents prove Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was intimately involved in the firing of US Attorneys last year, despite his repeated claims that he was not aware of what was going on in his office. NBC reports, moments ago:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in […]
According to a CBS News report today, nine officers (including four generals) will be blamed for the coverup over the death of Pat Tillman, the NFL football player who died fighting in Afghanistan in April 2004.
CBS reports that the first high-ranking officers will be found at fault in the investigation which is years old now, […]
Add this to your calendars: Kyle Sampson, Alberto Gonzales’ recently-resigned Chief of Staff will share his story before the Senate Judiciary Committee this Thursday in a hearing about the US Attorney scandal. A lawyer for Samspon told Commitee that “Mr. Sampson looks forward to answering the Committee’s questions… We trust that his decision to do […]
A short time ago… The House of Representatives voted 218-212 today in favor of passing a binding resolution attached to a funding bill which would stipulates that all US combat troops must be redeployed from Iraq by August 31st, 2008. This signifies the first binding resolution which explicitly opposes President Bush’s Iraq war policy, although […]
According to a rather astonishing but entirely overlooked Gallup poll, a wide majority of Americans are more interested in putting the environment first, above the availably of oil and gas.
What is more astonishing is that there has been a dramatic increase in support of the environment over energy concerns over the course of the past […]
House Iraq Vote
The House will vote today on a budget bill which would bring the war in Iraq to end by the last day of August, 2008. More conservative “blue dog” Democrats were opposed to the measure because it set a date-certain, while more liberal Democrats were opposed to the measure because it was not […]
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Fox News pretty much is a dis-information network. They’re the people who labeled Mark Foley a “Democrat” multiple times, the people who said Libby had been found innocent of 1 count, while not mentioning he was guilty on the other four. Check out the below chart I whipped up to show the real world effects […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted 11 to 8 in favor of authorizing subpoenas for Karl Rove and Harriet Miers in connection with the ongoing US Attorney firing scandal. Republican Senator Charles Grassley (Iowa) was the only exception to the party-line vote.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had tried Wednesday to convince Republicans on the Committee not […]
The Rudy 2008 campaign unveiled their newly redesigned website today. Despite a substantial facelift, the new website still does not mention that Mr Giuliani has two children, or his colorful past. The only wife of his it mentions is his current one, Judith Nathan. I mentioned this phenomenon in a piece I wrote for Truthout.org […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted 11 to 8 in favor of authorizing subpoenas for Karl Rove and Harriet Miers in connection with the ongoing US Attorney firing scandal. Republican Senator Charles Grassley (Iowa) was the only exception to the party-line vote.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had tried Wednesday to convince Republicans on the Committee not […]
How many convicted felons can rightfully claim to be endorsed by the sitting Vice President of the United States– and use that endorsement to ask for money? At least one.
Scooter Libby’s legal defense fund sent out an email today asking for thousands of dollars worth of donations using Vice President Dick Cheney’s endorsement “Scooter Libby […]
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