AsiaTimesOnline Baghdad up close and personal By Pepe Escobar BAGHDAD – It’s noon on Sunday right in front of the Adhamiyah wall – the now infamous symbol of the Pentagon-devised Baghdad gulag. On Muhamad al-Kasem highway, a few battered cars and vans stop, their occupants curious to examine this prime stretch of “ghettoization”. Behind lies…
By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein, Washington Post The Justice Department has launched an internal investigation into whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s former White House liaison illegally took party affiliation into account in hiring career federal prosecutors, officials said yesterday. The allegations against Monica M. Goodling represent a potential violation of federal law and…
By Klaus Marre, The Hill Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued a subpoena Wednesday for all e-mails from White House adviser Karl Rove that relate to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. “Attached please find a subpoena compelling the Department by May 15 to produce any and all emails and attachments to emails…
rawstory.com According to NBC’s chief Pentagon correspondent, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that his “interest is to hit Saddam Hussein” just hours after the attacks on September 11, 2001, “even though all indications pointed at al-Qaida as the guilty party,” a Rhode Island newspaper reports. At the annual Business Expo at the Rhode Island…
