Michael Roston, Raw Story Susan Ralston, the former executive assistant to top White House adviser Karl Rove, invoked her rights against self-incrimination while she was being asked to answer questions by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee’s Chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, announced in a memo Tuesday. The deposition for which she…
By Susan Crabtree, The Hill House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) wants more information than Monica Goodling, a former senior aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is willing to provide when she testifies before Conyers’s panel Wednesday. John Dowd, Goodling’s attorney, said his client refuses to hand over unredacted documents related to the…
By Stewart M. Powell, Hearst Newspapers The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. This “second surge” of troops in Iraq, which is being executed by extending tours for brigades already there and by deploying more…
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon The testimony yesterday from James Comey re-focuses attention on one of the long unresolved mysteries of the NSA scandal. And the new information Comey revealed, though not answering that question decisively, suggests some deeply troubling answers. Most of all, yesterday’s hearing underscores how unresolved the entire NSA matter is — how…
