By Dan Eggen, Washington Post Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday. The meeting came one day before White House officials tried to get approval for the…
Michael Roston, Raw Story The former Deputy Attorney General to John Ashcroft and later Alberto Gonzales described an attempt by the current, embattled Attorney General to centralize power within his office as he began his term at the Justice Department. James Comey, who served as Deputy Attorney General from 2003 through 2005, described Gonzales’ plan…
By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers When trying to figure out the motives of the Bush Administration on nearly any issue you can think of, the first place to look should always be Karl Rove’s “politics” workshop. By “politics,” I mainly mean how an action affects the survival of the CheneyBush Administration, and only incidentally…
By Peter Baker, The Washington Post The 2-1/2 year sentence imposed on former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby today puts new pressure on President Bush, who may soon confront the choice of triggering a fresh political storm by pardoning a convicted perjurer or letting one of the early architects of his administration head…
