By Robert Pear, New York Times In his new budget, to be unveiled Monday, President Bush will call for large cuts in the growth of Medicare, far exceeding what he proposed last year, and he will again seek major savings in Medicaid, according to administration officials and budget documents. Over all, the 2009 budget is…
By Max Holland, Washington Decoded In a revelation bound to cast a pall over the 9/11 Commission, Philip Shenon will report in a forthcoming book that the panel’s executive director, Philip Zelikow, engaged in “surreptitious” communications with presidential adviser Karl Rove and other Bush administration officials during the commission’s 20 – month investigation into the…
[IFP received this email update from Brad Newsham – founder of the ‘Beach Impeach’ projects] A Short Sweet Impeachment Story Every day I try to do one thing, usually small, to forward impeachment. Here’s the story of yesterday: My friend Cynthia Papermaster sent me an email with the names and phone numbers (below) of the…
Ariane DeVogue, ABC News For the first time, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has addressed the issue of whether waterboarding — an interrogation technique that simulates drowning — is illegal. He says that there are some circumstances where current law “would appear clearly to prohibit the use of the technique.” But in a letter to Democratic…
