Michael Roston, Huffington Post Dusting off his strategy from the previous showdown over Iraq war spending, President Bush has begun a public campaign to pressure Congress to quickly take up his “emergency” request. Bush claims U.S. soldiers will suffer if the money isn’t passed in time for the holidays. But senior congressional Democrats who oversee…
White House Cut Warming Impact Testimony By H. Josef Herbert, Associated Press The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the…
By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the ranking…
Blackwater USA, according to people who have been briefed on the report. In addition to Blackwater, the State Department’s two other security contractors in Iraq are DynCorp International and Triple Canopy. At the same time, a government audit expected to be released Tuesday says that records documenting the work of DynCorp, the State Department’s largest…
