Gonzales aide to invoke Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer Senate Questions LAURIE KELLMAN | AP | March 26, 2007 WASHINGTON – Monica Goodling, a Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday. “The…
Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson is a making a big noise against the Iraq War and President George Bush from the heart of one of the conservative states in America. Utah is Republican and strongly Mormon. Salt Lake City’s mayor is lapsed Mormon and fiery Democrat. Now, from the deep Mountain West, he’s calling…
By Robert Novak, WASHINGTON — Two weeks earlier on Capitol Hill, there was a groundswell of Republican demands — public and private — that President Bush pardon the convicted Scooter Libby. Last week, as Alberto Gonzales came under withering Democratic fire, there were no public GOP declarations of support amid private predictions of the attorney…
Michael Roston, rawstory.com Pointing to e-mails between Bush administration officials and convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff that used private e-mail addresses, the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ordered the Republican National Committee and the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign to preserve all e-mail records and to ensure that they aren’t purged or destroyed. “White…
