Rove Aide Details Broad Political Abuses By Jason Leopold In January 2002, at a retreat in West Virginia, Karl Rove gave a PowerPoint presentation to at least 50 managers at the Department of the Interior to discuss polling data, and emphasized the importance of getting Oregon Senator Gordon Smith, a Republican, reelected that year. The […]
Casual Lawbreaking at the White House Dan Froomkin New evidence unearthed by House Democrats establishes that White House political adviser Karl Rove and many of his colleagues used Republican National Committee e-mail accounts for official business — even though White House policy is clear that doing so is a violation of the Presidential Records Act. […]
U.S. Attorney Resignation Made on Threat of Immediate Firing When a Justice Department official asked eight U.S. attorneys for their resignations last December, most of them went quietly (initially at least), agreeing to resign on relatively short notice and with no public fuss. But one U.S. attorney, Carol Lam in San Diego, had contentious private […]
TPM Muckraker Last week, Hans von Spakovsky testified before the Senate Rules Committee that he’d been something of a wallflower when he worked at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. His critics had it all wrong, he said. Despite claims that he’d led the Department’s efforts to overturn the voting rights section’s traditional work protecting […]
GAO Examines Signing Statement Cases The Bush administration sometimes fails to follow all provisions of laws after President Bush attaches "signing statements" meant to interpret or restrict the legislation, congressional examiners say. Lawmakers who asked the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study said it was further proof that the Bush White House oversteps constitutional […]
House Panel Says Records of E-Mails Are Missing E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday. The Bush administration may have committed “extensive” violations of a law requiring that certain records be preserved, the committee […]
Ralston’s Deposition Oh, this is getting good. As part of his interim report on RNC emails, Waxman released Susan Ralston’s testimony before the committee. Reading the deposition, it becomes pretty clear why Tom Davis was trying to warn Rove of the danger of Ralston’s testimony. Because even what she was willing to testify to makes […]
INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT VIOLATIONS PREPARED FOR CHAIRMAN HENRY A. WAXMAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Oversight Committee has been investigating whether White House officials violated the Presidential Records Act by using e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Cheney ‘04 campaign for official White House communications. This interim staff report […]
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