Minnesota Case Fits Pattern in US Attorneys Flap By Tom Hamburger, The Los Angeles Times For more than 15 years, clean-cut, square-jawed Tom Heffelfinger was the embodiment of a tough Republican prosecutor. Named U.S. attorney for Minnesota in 1991, he won a series of high-profile white-collar crime and gun and explosives cases. By the time…
Patrick O’Connor, The Politico Tim Griffin, a former protege of White House political guru Karl Rove who replaced one of the controversially fired U.S. attorneys late last year, will resign his post as the top federal prosecutor in Arkansas on Friday,various news outlets in the state have reported. Aides to members of the Arkansas congressional…
by Dave Lindorff, Opednews.com When it comes to defending the Constitution from the saboteurs of freedom and democracy in the Bush administration, my hero is Conyers. Not Congressman Conyers. He had a shot at the title during 2005, when he was holding informal hearings on the administration’s impeachable crimes, and in 2006, when he published…
CouragetoResist.org SACRAMENTO, CA – An Iraq War veteran – who insists on remaining anonymous as “only a representative ‘ of his fallen comrades – began walking laps around the state capitol building Monday morning at 8:00 am. Fifty-eight hours later, he is still walking. Although some on the scene are now summing up his condition…
