The Crypt, politico.com House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is looking to follow-up on his eye-opening hearing Wednesday with GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan. Waxman sent a letter on Thursday to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove asking Rove whether he played any role in putting together a Jan….
Michael Roston, rawstory.com The State Department has no plans to stop accepting promises that countries with poor human rights record will not torture freed Guantanamo Bay detainees, RAW STORY has learned. The announcement came the same day the group Human Rights Watch published a report showing that seven ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees of Russian descent have…
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press March 30, 2007 As the third of four members of the Cuyahoga (Cleveland) County Board of Elections resigns under pressure from Ohio’s new Secretary of State, additional potential illegalities in Hocking County have resurfaced with new weight against a GOP executive director already under serious fire….
thehill.com Sampson: Gonzales approved firings By Jeremy Jacobs – March 29, 2007 A former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified Thursday that Gonzales and then-White House counsel Harriet Miers signed off on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and on at least two occasions said that the attorney general’s recollection of events was…
