Well, I Guess GWB43.com Really Is the Smoking Gunch We just need to figure out how to get our geeks into the servers to prove it. Bush aides’ use of GOP e-mail probed The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting […]
I generally have little interest in the celebrity stories – Anna Nicole Smith; Who’s getting divorced/married/rehabed in Hollywood; What Paris Hilton is up to [or down to]. It’s just not my thing. And I’ve felt that about this Imus story, but I do have a thought about it. I occasionally find myself someplace where the […]
There’s something new in the blogging world – something pretty good. Josh Marshall’s blog, Talking Points Memo, grew into TPM Cafe, then TPM Muckracker. Now there’s TPM Media. Today’s [now daily] Youtube video explains what he’s about with this expansion. Josh has a fine track record. It was his persistence that got the U.S. Attorney […]
And speaking of Talking Points, this weeks attacks’ on Nancy Pelosi are classics. The centerpiece was Cheney’s appearance on spin-network with Russ Limbaugh. He chides Ms. Pelosi for bad behavior with the music in the background being something like sleeping with the enemy. I’m going to skip the trap of defending Pelosi. There’s nothing to […]
White House unofficial e-mail accounts draw scrutiny The White House is being accused of improperly trying to hide e-mails about government business by using unofficial e-mail accounts. Congressional investigators say they found communications on one account from top White House aides about official matters, like the December firings of eight U.S. attorneys. Those e-mails were […]
The Next Bush Scandal? The slowly-unfolding disclosure that some White House aides use non-government e-mail servers to conduct official business may soon be reaching scandal proportions. As John D. McKinnon writes in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required): "The widespread use of private email accounts by some top White House officials is sparking a congressional […]
Just a snippet about the justice department’s response to Conyers’ supoena for more documents: Fight over fired prosecutors heats up Responding, Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse stopped short of saying the department would fight the subpoena. But he said legal concerns about violating privacy rights of people mentioned in the documents have kept the Justice Department […]
I don’t think those of us growing up in the post-World War II era were experientially aware of the political climate that antedated that war. The decline of the ancient monarchies that lead up to World War I left a vacuum that was filled by a three-way struggle – Democracy, Fascism, and Communism. Hitler was […]
The Rachel Pulose story smells like 3 day old fish. She’s the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota that was appointed in February 2006 [the one with the "Coronation"] to replace Thomas Heffelfinger who resigned abruptly. While Heffelfinger denies that he was "pushed out" of his job, there are some damning facts in the story. First, there’s […]