By Robert Schmidt, Tues, March 13 2007 (Bloomberg) The chief aide to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned amid new revelations about the Bush administration’s ouster of eight U.S. attorneys. The Justice Department announced the resignation of Kyle Sampson, who was Gonzales’s chief of staff. Sampson may be called to testify by Democrats on the…
By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers Under a little-noticed provision in the USA Patriot Act, the Treasury Department has ordered severe restrictions against foreign banks or countries for reasons beyond the stated purpose of the law and without producing evidence. Section 311 of the 2001 Patriot Act was drafted to halt terrorist financing and money…
SEATTLE TIMES – … Documents and interviews indicate that Harriet Miers, who was then the White House counsel, suggested in February 2005 that all the prosecutors be dismissed and replaced with new Republican appointees for Bush’s second term. … [The documents] show that the White House and other administration officials were more deeply involved in…
By Joel Seidman, NBC News Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, the only U.S. military officer charged with crimes in the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal, will have new hearing Monday at Fort McNair in Washington to determine whether he should be court-martialed. Jordan directed the interrogation center at Abu Ghraib in the fall of 2003. He is…
