By Paul Kiel, TPM Muckraker Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the man who will preside over Michael Mukasey’s confirmation hearing, signals hard that Mukasey‘s not going anywhere until the committee gets the information it’s been seeking on the U.S. attorney firings and the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. A statement just out: “The Judiciary Committee…
Examiner.com Anyone awaiting an anthology of Vice President Dick Cheney’s papers might be in for a disappointment. Speaking on Friday at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., Cheney said that because he served as President Ford’s chief of staff, “researchers like to come and dig through my files, to…
By Philip Sherwell in New York and Tim Shipman in Washington, Telegraph UK Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Pentagon planners have developed a list of up…
AFP Â Iraq ordered the cancellation on Monday of the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater after it was involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed eight people, a senior official told AFP. Blackwater offers personal security to US civilian officials working in Iraq. “The interior minister (Jawad al-Bolani) has issued an order to…
