By Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post White House officials arranged for top officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to help as many as 18 vulnerable Republican congressmen by making appearances and sometimes announcing new federal grants in the lawmakers’ districts in the months leading up to the November 2006 elections, a Democratic…
by Randolph T. Holhut, http://www.opednews.com/ With public support for the Iraq war hovering around 30 percent, the Bush administration is falling back on a familiar strategy it loves to use when it find itself in trouble – scaring the American people. On Tuesday, the National Intelligence Estimate, which reflects the consensus view of the 16…
Cheney’s office implies it has executive privilege of its own Michael Rolston, Raw Story Weeks after claiming that it was not a part of the executive branch, the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney appears to be readying an independent assertion of executive privilege. The move emerged in an exchange of letters with the Senate…
By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t Harriet Miers, former White House counsel, said on Tuesday she would not comply with Congressional orders. Congress has issued subpoenas for Miers’s testimony and any documents in her possession related to the US attorney purge. Her refusal could lead to criminal proceedings or to…
