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White House lost at least 10 million e-mails
Nick Juliano, Raw Story They could be anything from spam offering male enhancement to furtive exchanges of political strategy with convicted lobbyists, but observers say the White House deleted more than twice as many e-mails as previous estimates, bringing the total number of missing communications involving administration aides like Karl Rove and others to higher…
Media: Americans don’t want accountability
Journalists seem to have forgotten that they are supposed to be watchdogs — not cheerleaders of government corruption. By Faiz Shakir and Nico Pitney and Amanda Terkel and Payson Schwin and Satyam Khanna, Center for American Progress. For six years, conservative domination of Washington created a drought of oversight and accountability. Now, as Congress finally…
Poll: Americans Say Bush Shouldn’t Keep Aides from Testifying
Based upon this non-scientific online poll from CSPAN’s Capital News today, Americans overwhelmingly want to know the truth about the firing of 8 U.S. attorneys by the Bush Administration and do not think that the President should keep his top aides from testifying under oath in front of Congress. (Poll Updates)
With New Embassy, US Presence in Iraq Appears Permanent
US Embassy in Iraq to Be Biggest Ever By Anne Gearan, The Associated Press The new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad will be the world’s largest and most expensive foreign mission, though it may not be large enough or secure enough to cope with the chaos in Iraq. The Bush administration designed the 104-acre compound–set to…
Congress Blasts through White House’s Iron Curtain?
Reuters-Brushing aside a veto threat, the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to overturn a 2001 order by President George W. Bush that lets former presidents keep their papers secret indefinitely. The measure, which drew bipartisan support and passed by a veto-busting 333-93 margin, was among White House-opposed bills the House passed that would widen…
