Michael Roston, rawstory.com A spokesman for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suggested that she had more important things to do than testify before Congress the day before a House Committee is threatening to issue a subpoena for her cooperation with an investigation into the evidence used to build the case for the Iraq War. Meanwhile,…
By Maddy Sauer, ABC News Security practices at the White House are dangerously inadequate say current and former employees of the security office there, according to a letter sent today from the House Oversight Committee to former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, asking that he cooperate with the committee’s investigation into the alleged…
By Tom Hamburger, The Los Angeles Times Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited…
By William Fisher, t r u t h o u t A top human rights advocate is characterizing as “a self-inflicted wound” the failure of the Bush administration to find countries willing to grant asylum to Guantanamo prisoners it has cleared for release. “The administration created this problem by repeatedly describing all Guantanamo detainees as…
