Cryptic thank-you note may link Rove to US Attorney scandal: rawstory.com A previously overlooked e-mail from the Department of Justice document dump may turn out to be a smoking gun, of sorts, that links White House Adviser Karl Rove to the US Attorney firing scandal, reports Newsweek. (more) DOJ Emails Illustrate Plan to Mislead Congress:…
Michael Roston, rawstory.com D. Kyle Sampson, the former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning that the firing of eight US Attorneys by the White House was justified and appropriate, but handled poorly. But, most surprisingly, Sampson is set to testify that the terminations were “political”…
By Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia L. Cooper March 29, 2007 San Diego Union Tribune The stealth dismissal of U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration carries echoes of the Nixon administration firing special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973. Now, as then, we may be witnessing criminal acts of obstruction of justice at the highest levels of…
by Jackson Thoreau, opednews.com In a relatively recent column in The Washington Post, Columbia University presidential scholar and historian Eric Foner called Bush the worst president in U.S. history. Foner even said Bush was worse than Nixon and comparable to James Polk, who led the U.S. into the unprovoked invasion of Mexico by lying about…
