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By Maddy Sauer, ABC News Security practices at the White House are dangerously inadequate say current and former employees of the security office there, according to a letter sent today from the House Oversight Committee to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, asking that he cooperate with the committee’s investigation into the alleged…
U.S.-installed Iraqi ex-PM says Bush “utter failure”
Reuters By Khalid al-Ansary BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an “utter failure” that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country. In an interview published on Saturday in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, Allawi found fault with American…
Rep. Shays (R-CT) scuffles with Police – Will this be handled like McKinney’s (D-GA) scuffle?
[Editor’s note: In late March of last year, then-Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) was involved in a dispute with a Capitol police officer. Thursday, July 19th Representative Christopher Shays (R-CN) was involved in a dispute with a DC Capitol police officer. Shays is a white male Republican. McKinney is a black female Democrat. It is of…
FBI Withdraws Digital Library’s National Security Letter
By Paul Elias, The Associated Press A nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is calling on other groups to challenge government agencies attempting to obtain online customer information without a judge’s order. The FBI presented the San Francisco-based Internet Archive with a national…
Senate Calls For Inquiry Into Destruction Of CIA Interrogation Tapes
PAMELA HESS, AP The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat on Friday asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the CIA obstructed justice by destroying videotapes that documented the harsh 2002 interrogations of two alleged terrorists. A day after CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden told agency employees the tapes were destroyed in 2005, members of Congress, human…
