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Oversight Committee to limit RNC e-mail request
Michael Rolston, Raw Story Rep. Henry Waxman’s House Committee on Oversight and Government reform is close to reaching a deal that would limit the scope of its probe into e-mail accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee and used by White House employees, according to a report in today’s edition of Roll Call. “Just prior…
Judge Made Secret Ruling Against Key Element Of Bush Wiretapping
By Carol D. Leonnig and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration’s wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated rationale for fevered efforts by congressional lawmakers this week to expand the president’s spying powers….
Controversial US Attorney Gets New Post
By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times The U.S. attorney in Minnesota, whose clashes with career prosecutors came to symbolize the problems of the Justice Department under Alberto R. Gonzales, resigned Monday to accept a less-visible post at Justice Department headquarters in Washington. The reassignment of Rachel K. Paulose, 10 days into the tenure of…
2004 election illegalities rock Ohio’s Hocking County as Cleveland braces for a legal firestorm
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press March 30, 2007 As the third of four members of the Cuyahoga (Cleveland) County Board of Elections resigns under pressure from Ohio’s new Secretary of State, additional potential illegalities in Hocking County have resurfaced with new weight against a GOP executive director already under serious fire….
For prosecution of Bush war crimes, planning begins
ByMikaeltherawstory by Stephen C. Webster On Saturday morning in Andover, Massachusetts, as about 120 activists, adademics, constitutional scholars, public officials and legal experts gathered in the Wyndham hotel, the building suddenly went dark. Electricity had been cut off just prior to the start of a landmark war crimes conference, the goal of which was to…
Cheney aide Libby questioned on forged letter linking Saddam to 9/11
ByMikaeltherawstory by john byrne House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued letters of inquiry Wednesday to Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, regarding a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. The Michigan Democrat also sent letters to senior former Bush intelligence officials, including Robert Richer, former CIA Deputy…
