Michael Roston, rawstory.com D. Kyle Sampson, the former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning that the firing of eight US Attorneys by the White House was justified and appropriate, but handled poorly. But, most surprisingly, Sampson is set to testify that the terminations were “political”…
By Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia L. Cooper March 29, 2007 San Diego Union Tribune The stealth dismissal of U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration carries echoes of the Nixon administration firing special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973. Now, as then, we may be witnessing criminal acts of obstruction of justice at the highest levels of…
by Jackson Thoreau, opednews.com In a relatively recent column in The Washington Post, Columbia University presidential scholar and historian Eric Foner called Bush the worst president in U.S. history. Foner even said Bush was worse than Nixon and comparable to James Polk, who led the U.S. into the unprovoked invasion of Mexico by lying about…
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Senate Democrats ignored a veto threat and pushed through a bill Thursday requiring President Bush to start withdrawing troops from “the civil war in Iraq,” dealing a rare, sharp rebuke to a wartime commander in chief. In a mostly party line 51-47 vote, the Senate signed off on a…
