This Just In: State Dept IG Looking Into Ambassador and Allegations of Coverup Over Weapons
Justice Dept IG Finds Misconduct in Politicized Hiring of US Attorneys
Internal Documents: Capitol Police Ill-Prepared for Bomb Attack
Blackwater Skirts Automatic Weapons Ban Through Deal With Sheriff
Secret UPS Lobbyist Report on FedEx Spurs Ohio Probe
Welding Industry Gets Free Pass on Dangerous [...]
This Just In: State Dept IG Looking Into Ambassador and Allegations of Coverup Over Weapons
Justice Dept IG Finds Misconduct in Politicized Hiring of US Attorneys
Internal Documents: Capitol Police Ill-Prepared for Bomb Attack
Blackwater Skirts Automatic Weapons Ban Through Deal With Sheriff
Secret UPS Lobbyist Report on FedEx Spurs Ohio Probe
Welding Industry Gets Free Pass on Dangerous [...]
Wife’s Company Could Present Conflict for McCain Presidency
Getting Byrned By Justice: Favoritism in Justice Dept Grant Program
Former Safety Contractor Blames KBR for Contaminants in Iraq
Hidden Tragedy: Underreporting of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses
Witnesses Link Chemical to Ill US Soldiers
Bank of America PAC $ Behind Dodd’s Countrywide Loan
Popularity: 10%
This morning, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will get a letter from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about allegations that the U.S. Ambassador to Albania held a late-night meeting with that country’s Defense Minister and approved “removing evidence of the illegal Chinese origins of ammunition being shipped from Albania to Afghanistan by [...]
Douglas Feith, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, was scheduled to appear before the House Judiciary committee today in its examination of the role played by Pentagon lawyers in developing and approving aggressive interrogation techniques.
But when Feith found out this morning that he would have to sit next to Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powel’s former [...]
It hasn’t been released yet but Sen. Patty Murray says the upcoming GAO report is very critical of the process by which the Air Force awarded its huge tanker contract to Northrop Grumman and Airbus.
“Today, the GAO sustained Boeing’s protest and confirmed what I have been saying for months –the Air Force’s tanker decision was [...]
‘Curveball’ Speaks: I’m Not Guilty
Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual Advocating Bribes, Use of Terrorists and Shielding Human Rights Abuses from Journalists
Obama Accuser Has Long Rap Sheet
Bin Laden’s Right-Hand Man in Europe Is Released From Jail
The Scandalous Sex-Filled Past of American University in Iraq’s First Chancellor
Audit Faults KBR’s Repairs of Hurricane Damage
Judge: Blackwater Facility in [...]
Justice Department Lawyers Have Filed Grand-Jury Referral in U.S. Attorneys Scandal
U.S. Abuse of Detainees Was Routine at Afghanistan Bases
Army Accused of Spending $100M to House Families Atop Weapons Dump
Sen. Ted Stevens Owes $50,000 to Lawyers in Federal Investigation Case
Popularity: 14%
According to a new Government Accountability report, funding for Operation Noble Eagle, which involves operations in defense of the homeland, has dropped precipitously from $27.9 billion in 2002 to $89.3 million in 2007.
The reason: “largely because of the completion of repairs to the Pentagon and upgrades in security at military installations that were onetime costs, [...]
He’s Back! Rove’s Six-Figure Deal With Freedom’s Watch
FBI Probe of Curt Weldon: Russians Proposed U.S. Front for Selling Weapons
“Dollar Bill” Jefferson Wants Bribery Trial Moved From Virginia to Louisiana
Earmark Spending Makes Comeback, Soaring 29 Percent in Defense Authorization Bill
Is Small Business Administration Lying About Loans to Huge Companies?
The Long Read: Top Utility TXU and the [...]
Fossella Hires Same Private Eyes Who Worked for OJ
Rezko’s Letter to Judge: Prosecutors Tried to Pressure Me on Obama
Plaintiffs Suing KBR Hope to Lift Order Keeping Cases Secret
“Exporter of the Year” Exported Sarin Gas Precursor Without License
9th Circuit Court Chief Judge’s Internet Porn Habit Halts Obscenity Trial
FBI Told 12 Field Offices to Halt Some Financial [...]
Fritjof Capra, one of the leading lights of the ecological movement and the author of the “Tao of Physics” and “Steering Business Toward Sustainability,” hosts a video about how Monsanto, Aventis, Dow and DuPont are experimenting with us by altering the food we eat.
Jailed super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his family met with President Bush at least six times, according to photographs obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The committee’s proposed report, “Jack Abramoff’s Contacts With White House Officials,” also details how:
- At the instigation of Abramoff, the White House intervened in the discussions on whether [...]
The FBI uses outdated and inefficient technology, taking months or years to process 14 percent of background checks for citizenship applicants, according to a new report by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General:
“We found that as of March 2008 the FBI had over 327,000 pending USCIS name check requests, with 90 percent over 30 days [...]
UPDATE: Rezko is surrendering and will begin serving his sentence immediately.
Here is the official email sent out this afternoon by the Chicago federal court where Obama fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko has been standing trial (click for the full list):
Subject: Verdict
1 Mail fraud-g
2 Mail fraud-g
3 Wire fraud-ng
4 Wire fraud-g
Popularity: 11%
Today’s last two remaining Democratic primaries in Montana and South Dakota feature a voting bloc that has not received much attention from the media: Native Americans.
According to this report from northeastern Montana’s Fort Peck Indian reservation, many of them are supporting Barack Obama.
Popularity: 21%
Former Rep. Ernest Istook’s longtime aide, John Albaugh, pled guilty this afternoon to conspiracy for accepting dinners, drinks and tickets to sport events and campaign contributions from Jack Abramoff’s lobbying firm which was seeking specific legislation and action from Congress for transportation legislation.
Tonight, Istook issued the following statement:
“I am as surprised and as shocked as [...]
This morning, Bill Clinton told a crowd in Milbank, South Dakota that today could be the end for his wife’s campaign:
“I want to say also, that this may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, til Hillary decided to run. But it [...]
Unmentioned in the New York Times’s illuminating story about McCain adviser Rick Davis’s lobbying activity are the recent revelations about his onetime client, ImageSat.
Davis’s firm, Davis Manafort, received $120,000 to lobby for Imagesat, an Israeli company which sells satellite imagery, on both defense and domestic security issues in 2004 and 2005.
Imagesat has been in the [...]
Sen. John McCain and other lawmakers are proposing to privatize veterans healthcare.
Some veterans, along with the American Federation of Government Employees, oppose that proposal and are urging McCain to fully fund and staff the Veterans Administration.
Popularity: 12%
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) issued a subpoena to former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for testimony about the politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ), including former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman’s case.
Yesterday, Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, sent a letter to the committee indicating Rove’s refusal to testify voluntarily despite [...]
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