Archive for May, 2007
The Wake-Up Call
The ‘08 Race
Will Tim Griffin, the controversial outgoing replacement US Attorney in Arkansas (and former Karl Rove aide), join the Fred Thompson campaign?
Scandal Sheet
Could Alberto Gonzales be disbarred? Leading lawyers and legal scholars think it’s certainly possible.
Beltway Blotter
Employees at the Interior Department have been exposed to harmful chemical fumes, smoke and construction dust for years, [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
How the Justice Department politicized the appointment of immigration judges.
Did a well-connected drug company, Emergent BioSolutions, get federal contracts to supply their anthrax vaccine despite dangerous side effects?
Corporate Capers
Who’s spying on whom over at Hewlett Packard? Former VP Karl Kamb claims that the company got his private phone records and spied on Dell.
Human Rights
Here [...]
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Muckraked Will Return on May 29
We’re on hiatus for a week and a half but we will begin posting again on May 29.
See you then!
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
Former White House counsel Ted Olsen and Eugene Scalia (the son of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia) reviewed and approved Paul Wolfowitz’s transfer of his then-girlfriend Shaha Riza to a higher-paying job at the State Department. They concluded that the contract was “a reasonable resolution of the perceived underlying conflict of interest.”
And here’s Wolfwotiz [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
The Bush administration’s civil liberties protection panel, created upon the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, is a powerless watchdog: It can’t demand documents or get officials to talk to them under oath.
Beltway Blogroll
In FY 2006, the federal government spent $82 billion on corporate welfare, in direct and indirect subsidies to businesses and private-sector corporate entities such [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Race for ‘08
Two strikes against John Edwards: 1) He preaches against predatory lending yet worked as a consultant to a hedge fund that expanded its subprime lending business while he worked there. 2) Busted HBO exec Chris Albrecht was a top bundler for the Edwards campaign.
Beltway Blotter
John Murtha’s earmark, $23 million for the National Drug [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
Is Missouri’s Todd Graves the ninth fired U.S. Attorney? Senator Kit Bond suggested to the Bush administration that it might be a good idea to remove him back in 2005.
Beltway Blotter
The exodus continues: In the last ten days, four senior officials have left the Bush administration and more are expected to follow. Recent [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
Two oil company executives with personal and financial ties to Alaska’s Sen. Ted Stevens pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, extortion and tax fraud in federal district court in Anchorage. Stevens’ son, Ben, and other lawmakers, dubbed the “Corrupt Bastards Club” are being investigated by DOJ’s Office of Public Integrity and the Sacramento U.S. [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Race for ‘08
Rudy Giuliani faces possible conflict of interest: One of his companies is getting paid to consult Delta Air Lines during its bankruptcy reorganization while another of his firms just signed a $2 million consulting deal with one of Delta’s creditors, Command Security Corp.
Iraq War
George Tenet cashes in on the war. Not only is [...]
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The Afternoon Round-Up
Scandal Sheet
The Justice Department dispatched Bradley Schlozman to be U.S. Attorney in Missouri, where he got busy bringing voter fraud indictments against Democratic groups just days before the 2006 mid-term elections.
The ‘08 Race
“All the Wall Street guys are just making pigs of themselves with the amount of money they are able to rip out [...]
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