By Spencer Ackerman, TPMMuckraker Get ready for more revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency’s post-9/11 warrantless surveillance program. Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to hear testimony from Jack Goldsmith, the former head of Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, a key ally in James Comey’s efforts…
Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears to reflect increasing administration confidence that it can fend off congressional calls for a rapid drawdown of U.S. forces….
Max Follmer, Huffington Post The federal agency tasked with investigating the Utah mine collapse denied a request by the families of six trapped miners that the United Mine Workers represent them in the probe of the matter, the union said Monday. All six of the families had signed documents designating the union as their representative…
CNN …BROWN: Well, a lot of anger because I recall telling Secretary Chertoff back in 2004 and 2005 that this country was not ready for a catastrophic event. I had been to the tsunami in southeast Asia, and I came back and I told the president and I told Chertoff that we’re not ready. We…
