[Video] Police Seize Journalists Notes About RNC Protest Plans
No charges have been filed against the three, according to Mineapolis police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer.
No charges have been filed against the three, according to Mineapolis police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer.
from: MPPeace@yahoogroups.com Joseph Miller Yesterday Bush went around the Constitutional confirmation process and made a recess appointment of anti-regulatory zealot Susan Dudley as our country’s new “regulatory czar.” The following press release from OMB Watch (1) describes the implications of this new outrageous action, as does the link within the release to the 2006 report…
Alternet posted March 1, 2007. by Elizabeth de la Vega, Tomdispatch.com Libby’s trial has raised more questions than it has answered. It’s time for a full-scale congressional hearing to hold the Bush administration accountable. Such people — those who will use the highest offices of the United States government to protect themselves and their prospects…
By Dan Eggen, Washington Post No more than four Justice Department officials had access to details of the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program when the department deemed portions of it illegal, following a pattern of poor consultation that helped create a “legal mess,” a former Justice official told Congress yesterday. Jack L. Goldsmith, former head…
Michael Roston, rawstory.com A major government watchdog organization has warned that White House officials, including Karl Rove, could face a number of obstruction of justice charges for the way they used outside e-mail accounts and failed to properly archive e-mails on White House servers. “[Special Counsel Patrick] Fitzgerald could decide to reopen the case,” said…
By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times In an unusual expression of frustration, the judge who sentenced former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to 30 months in jail, only to see the sentence commuted by President Bush, said he was “perplexed” by the act of clemency. In his first public comments on the…
By Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg U.S. businesses, with the help of civil libertarians, are on the verge of outmaneuvering federal prosecutors and persuading Congress to limit the government’s power to pursue corporate fraud. Lawmakers are considering a measure that would, among other things, bar the government from demanding that companies reveal confidential talks with their lawyers…