Michael Roston, Raw Story After former White House Counsel Harriet Miers failed to attend a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on the firing of 8 US Attorneys, House Democrats issued a subpoena for e-mail accounts supplied by the Republican National Committee and used by senior White House staff. The committee’s chairman, Rep. John…
Patrick O’Connor, The Politico The refusal of former White House counsel Harriet Miers to appear before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday did not stop panel members from proceeding without her. Needless to say, the empty chair that appeared in her place was even less forthcoming than the president’s former top lawyer promised to be. Democrats…
Nick Juliano, Raw Story President Bush, defending his troop surge in Iraq, insisted Thursday that the insurgents attacking US troops in Iraq “are the same ones who attacked us on Sept. 11.” Bush was speaking at a White House press conference on the same day an interim progress report on his troop surge in Iraq…
Associated Press publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has “run its course.” “And now we’re going to move on,” Bush said in a…
