Nick Juliano, Raw Story The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked President Bush’s attorney general nominee whether he would block criminal contempt proceedings against current and former administration officials. In a letter sent Tuesday to nominee Michael Mukasey, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) asks whether, as attorney general, he would go along with White…
DAVID ESPO, AP President Bush cast a quiet veto Wednesday against a politically attractive expansion of children’s health insurance, triggering a struggle with the Democratic-controlled Congress certain to reverberate into the 2008 elections. “Congress will fight hard to override President Bush’s heartless veto,” vowed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Republican leaders expressed confidence…
JENNIFER TALHELM, AP At least three years before the deadly August accident at Utah’s Crandall Canyon Mine, Bureau of Land Management inspectors noted serious structural problems that they feared could cause the mine’s roof to collapse, Congress was told Tuesday. Yet the government’s mine safety office didn’t know of the bureau’s concerns until after the…
By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t Blackwater employees were accused of committing criminal acts of violence, including an incident in December 2006, when an inebriated Blackwater employee shot and killed an Iraqi security guard to Vice President Adel Abdul Mehdi, after a Christmas party. At a hearing Tuesday, the House…
