By Mike Allen, The Politico Dick Cheney’s office is abandoning a justification for keeping the Vice-President’s secret papers out of the hands of the National Archives. Officials working for Cheney had tried to claim he is separate from the executive branch, but they will no longer pursue that defense, senior administration officials tell The Politico….
John Byrne, Raw Story Christine Todd Whitman is the media darling of talk shows, the conservative former governor of New Jersey and head of President George W. Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency who quit the Bush Administration to “spend more time with her family.” Evidently, that’s not true. In a groundbreaking article today by the Washington…
By Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post Vice President Cheney’s office offered its first public written explanation yesterday for its refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified material, arguing that the order makes clear that the vice president is not subject to the oversight system it creates for federal agencies. In a…
Associated Press A Senate Democratic leader Tuesday urged a Bush-appointed judge to recuse himself from cases involving enemy combatants and requested an explanation about information that might contradict his testimony about the White House’s detainee policy. “It appears that you misled me, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the nation,” Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of…
