Terrence Hunt, AP President Bush named a new press secretary on Friday, replacing the high-profile showman Tony Snow with his quieter, stickler-for-detail deputy, Dana Perino. Snow, 52, battling cancer, said he was stepping down because he needed to earn more than his $168,000 White House salary _ an amount far less than he made as…
by Rob Woollard, AFP A US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of terrified Iraqi women and children during an alleged massacre in Haditha that left 24 people dead, a military court heard Thursday. The testimony came in the opening of a preliminary hearing for Marine Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who faces 17 counts…
The Associated Press A Democratic House leader asked presidential counsel Fred Fielding on Thursday to turn over a report first requested three months ago about the White House’s problems with lost e-mail. In a letter to Fielding, Rep. Henry Waxman set a Sept. 10 deadline for the White House to turn over information about the…
jurist.law.pitt.edu by Alexis Unkovic [JURIST] The US Department of Justice has begun an internal inquiry to determine whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] may have perjured himself [JURIST report] in testimony before Congress, DOJ Inspector General Glenn A. Fine [official profile] said Thursday. In a letter [PDF text] dated August 16,…
