The US House of Representatives today passed a bill that closes a “loophole” that allowed President Bush to circumvent the Senate confirmation process for federal prosecutors.The legislation, authored by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), passed the House with a vote of 306-114. It has already cleared the Senate (94-2), and it is expected that Bush will…
Michael Roston, Raw Story The House Judiciary Committee received testimony Wednesday morning from former Justice Department White House Liaison Monica Goodling, who appeared before the Committee only after being granted limited immunity from prosecution. She suggested to the Committee that the Deputy Attorney General, Paul McNulty, had not been forthright with the House Judiciary Committee…
By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t Emails released late Monday by the US Justice Department show the White House hired a well-known Republican operative to handle damage control in the aftermath of the US attorney scandal. Mark McKinnon, a heavyweight strategist whose primary company, Maverick Media Inc., did almost $170…
By Justin Rood, ABC News Al Hurra television, the U.S. government’s $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program. That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist…
