by Michael Winship, Common Dreams …You’d think that with such a shambles in his wake and his popularity at an all-time low, George Bush would at least partially have relinquished his pride of ownership. Not so. Here he is the other day, responding to the aborted attempt in the Senate to legislatively declare “no confidence”…
Michael Roston, Raw Story The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney told an agency within the National Archives that for purposes of securing classified information, the Vice President’s office is not an ‘entity within the executive branch’ according to a letter released Thursday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “The Oversight Committee…
Nick Juliano, Raw Story Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty came to Congress Thursday looking for a do-over.Former White House liaison Monica Goodling called into question McNulty’s prior statements regarding the firing of at least eight US Attorneys for allegedly political reasons when she testified before Congress last month. Testifying before a House subcommittee, McNulty sought…
By Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department’s civil rights division. And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago – over the objections of their immediate supervisors –…
