They’re Honkin’ For Impeachment In ‘Red’ Kentucky

John Byrne, Raw Story Following a contradiction between testimony from FBI Director Robert Mueller and that of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales regarding a 2004 meeting in then-Attorney General John Ashcroft’s hospital room about the NSA wiretapping program, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) formally requested notes Mueller testified he wrote after the Ashcroft visit late…

By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t Emails released late Monday by the US Justice Department show the White House hired a well-known Republican operative to handle damage control in the aftermath of the US attorney scandal. Mark McKinnon, a heavyweight strategist whose primary company, Maverick Media Inc., did almost $170…

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers. In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring the government to demonstrate that…

By Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman, Washington Post A surgeon general’s report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration’s policy…

By Pete Yost, The Associated Press A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states. The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney’s lawyer says logs for Cheney’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory…