‘Honey Do’ List for Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Justice Department Seeks Delay on CIA Inquiry By David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times The Justice Department asked the House Intelligence Committee on Friday to postpone its investigation into the destruction of videotapes by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2005, saying the Congressional inquiry presented “significant risks” to its own preliminary investigation into…

CNN …BROWN: Well, a lot of anger because I recall telling Secretary Chertoff back in 2004 and 2005 that this country was not ready for a catastrophic event. I had been to the tsunami in southeast Asia, and I came back and I told the president and I told Chertoff that we’re not ready. We…

By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Two years ago, in a speech at the Justice Department marking the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Bradley J. Schlozman, then the acting chief of the department’s civil rights division, found much to celebrate. “The voting enforcement efforts of the civil rights division during…

AP President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.The White House announced Wednesday that Bush had signed the exemption Tuesday while traveling in the Middle East….