Michael Roston, Raw Story Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has asked Sara Taylor, the former top aide to Karl Rove in the White House, to return to Capitol Hill for a deposition next week. Taylor complied with a Congressional subpoena and appeared last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify in the investigation of the…
By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t The White House has refused to turn over documents in connection with the US House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into the death of Corporal Pat Tillman, citing executive privilege. However, an examination of the documents released by the Department of…
By Brian Ross, ABC News Intelligence analysts and the former White House counterterror official describe as “pure pablum” the unclassified version of the National Intelligence Estimate released today on terror threats to the United States. “Nothing in here is going to surprise anybody who’s been following this,” said one senior U.S. intelligence official. “It’s more…
By Pete Yost, Associated Press There were 20.5 million decisions to classify government secrets last year, and a report to the president found serious shortcomings in the process. The Information Security Oversight Office said more than 1 in 10 documents it reviewed lacked a basis for classification, “calling into question the propriety” of the decisions…
