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Report: State Dept ‘Watchdog’ Censored Reports That Could Have Embarrassed Bush
Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Howard J. Krongard, the State Department’s inspector general, has repeatedly thwarted investigations and censored reports that might prove politically embarrassing to the Bush administration, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform charged today in a 13-page letter. The letter, signed by committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)…
No Vice President is Above the Law
Elizabeth Holtzman, Huffington Post For the first time since the Bush administration took office, three members of the House Judiciary Committee, Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), are calling for hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney. Their position, while courageous, is not surprising. What is surprising is that…
No photos allowed after Iraqi blasts
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