Bush Aide Addresses Missing RNC E-Mails At Senate Hearing, Jennings Is Silent on U.S. Attorneys’ Firings; Rove Is Absent A young White House political aide was grilled inconclusively by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday about the firings of U.S. attorneys after Karl Rove, the president’s senior political adviser, failed to show up at the committee’s […]
Documents show Kyl’s opposition to attorney oustings Documents released Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee show that Sen. Jon Kyl, a Republican, was upset with Bush administration officials who forced Arizona’s top federal prosecutor to resign late last year. The committee is investigating why the administration pushed out former Arizona U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton and […]
Law or Lawlessness By Marc Ash t·r·u·t·h·o·u·t | Perspective Friday 03 August 2007 We are not a nation of laws, if law cannot be enforced at the highest levels of our government. It’s that simple. Noting the Constitution assigns both the right and the obligation to Congress to intercede when the executive branch violates the […]
Ruling Limited Spying Efforts Move to Amend FISA Sparked by Judge’s Decision A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration’s wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated rationale for fevered efforts by congressional lawmakers this week to expand the […]
For some reason, I’m having a hard time with the political thing right now. Admittedly, I spent three weeks in Europe and then a week in the American Wilderness – so I’ve been away from it for a while. Maybe it’s re-entry shock. But watching Scott Jennings testify is simply excruciating. It seems like someone […]
I didn’t watch Vice President Cheney on Larry King last night. Here‘s what he had to say about the War on Iraq: Cheney: …don’t take it from me [about progress in Iraq] — look at the piece that appeared yesterday in the New York Times, not exactly a friendly publication — but a piece by […]