[Video] Rep. Wexler on Executive Abuse of Power

therawstory by Larisa Alexandrova House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) issued a subpoena Thursday to former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for testimony about politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ), including the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, who was jailed for bribery in what was widely seen…

CBS News American doctor Dave Warner is on a mission in eastern Afghanistan to show people back home how billions of taxpayer dollars sent here are being wasted. “When I was here in December,” Warner told CBS News chief forign correspondent Lara Logan. “This was full so you can see they’ve dug another pit over…

therawstory White House doesn’t deny McClellan’s Bush-to-Libby leak allegation Eric Brewer In Scott McClellan’s recent statements to the press regarding his apostasy, he says that one of the things that pushed him over the edge was the revelation on April 6, 2006, that President Bush had secretly authorized the selective release to reporters of classified…

By STEVEN R. HURST Mar 31, 9:24 PM (ET) BAGHDAD (AP) – The U.S. military death toll in March, the first full month of the security crackdown, was nearly twice that of the Iraqi army, which American and Iraqi officials say is taking the leading role in the latest attempt to curb violence in the…

Cryptic thank-you note may link Rove to US Attorney scandal: rawstory.com A previously overlooked e-mail from the Department of Justice document dump may turn out to be a smoking gun, of sorts, that links White House Adviser Karl Rove to the US Attorney firing scandal, reports Newsweek. (more) DOJ Emails Illustrate Plan to Mislead Congress:…

Nick Juliano, Raw Story More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators “abused, tortured or killed” scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even expected of having terrorist ties, according to a just-published book. In Administration of Torture, two American Civil Liberties…