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Josh Catone
Published: Thursday April 5, 2007
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) today rebuked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for not responding in a timely manner to requests made three months ago for written answers to questions.
Washington Post Voter-Fraud Complaints by GOP Drove Dismissals By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, May 14, 2007; A04 Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal by the administration last year were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax on voter fraud, including efforts by presidential adviser Karl Rove…
By Greg Gordon, McClatchy-Tribune For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates, according to former department lawyers and a review of written records. The administration intensified its efforts last year…
WASHINGTON – Presidential advisor Karl Rove and at least one other member of the White House political team were urged by the New Mexico Republican party chairman to fire the state’s U.S. attorney because of dissatisfaction in part with his failure to indict Democrats in a voter fraud investigation in the battleground election state (Read…
BY HANS LAETZ, Malibu Surfside News Rep. Henry Waxman has expanded his probe into alleged White House interference on behalf of BHP Billiton at the Environmental Protection Agency, and asked the company to turn over all letters and memos between it, the White House and EPA. In a letter Friday, Waxman gave EPA just five…
Pentagon Drops Post in Pakistan for Top General By ERIC SCHMITT May 9, 2008 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company WASHINGTON – When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in…
by Michael Collins, OpEdNews On Monday, Dec. 17, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security posted this document in response to the many criticisms of House Resolution 1955, The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. Part 1 of this series examined the dangers that this bill posed to citizens and political groups using…
