[Video] Conyers at DNC:Keeping Impeachment Hearings Secret

CURT ANDERSON, AP News Jose Padilla has spent more than five years in custody, first as a purported “dirty bomb” plotter and then for allegedly being part of a support cell for Islamic extremists, including al-Qaida. This week, a federal judge will decide whether Padilla, 37, and two co-defendants should spend the rest of their…

Josh Catone, rawstory.com As scrutiny increases on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a new report reveals that dozens of Bush appointees are members of a partisan organization of lawyers. The appointees and civil servants include “at least 25 in the Justice Department, nine in the Department of Defense and others in the Labor and Commerce departments,…

Jason Rhyne, Raw Story The federal official helming a probe into potentially illegal partisan political activities conducted by Karl Rove and other White House officials is himself the focus of a federal investigation. Scott Bloch, the Bush-appointed head of the US Office of Special Counsel, is under investigation for the alleged improper deletion of emails…

By Rowan Scarborough, San Francisco Examiner The White House is resisting a move by both Republicans and Democrats to fully declassify a Senate report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Republicans say the public disclosure would help show that the CIA made honest mistakes in its 2002 assessment that Iraq owned stockpiles of WMDs, when…