Archive for July, 2007
Afternoon Round-Up
Scandal Sheet
No wonder President Bush is standing by embattled AG Alberto Gonzales. Seems that the top lawyer got Bush out of serving jury duty in a drunk-driving case in 1996 so that the future president wouldn’t have to reveal his own drunk-driving arrest.
Health Care
These lobbyists must be kicking themselves today after the FDA asked [...]
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Turning the Page: Cheney
Sure, Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President is an authorized biography of the press-shy vice president.
And it was written by conservative journalist Stephen F. Hayes, who was granted 30 hours of face time with Cheney, who made his family and friends available for interviews.
But Hayes’ book does contain some interesting [...]
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Afternoon Round-Up
National Security
What’s behind the door to Room 4944 at FBI Headquarters? That’s the return address on most of the bureau’s national security letters to phone companies requesting their records. They’re sent by Larry Mefford, the bureau’s Executive Assistant Director in charge of the Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Division.
Scandal Sheet
Did John Kerry and Raytheon collude to get the Justice [...]
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Afternoon Round-Up
Scandal Sheet
Want to find out if your husband or boss was a customer of “DC Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey? Just run their number through this search.
Beltway Blotter
Sun Microsystems apparently overcharged taxpayers by tens of millions of dollars for years, according to documents turned up by investigators for Rep. Henry Waxman.
National Security
The Electronic Frontier Foundation [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
War on Terror
Proof that terrorism doesn’t work: The world’s twenty-eight major terrorist organizations (as designated by the State Department) accomplished their policy objectives only 7 percent of the time, according to this study.
Secret prisoner renditions continue. At least 76 people captured while fleeing the war in Somalia are being held with US backing in Ethiopia.
The Influence [...]
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Afternoon Round-Up
Health Care
“You would have to be dead to be unaffected by Moore’s movie”: That’s from a confidential memo written and circulated by Capital Blue Cross’s VP of Corporate Communications Barclay Fitzpatrick who was worried that Michael Moore’s “Sicko” could damage the health insurance industry’s profits.
Iraq War
War costs could total $1.4 trillion.
Blogging the Revolution
More pressure [...]
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Afternoon Round-Up
Scandal Sheet
Could the Libby case end up freeing a Hamas suspect? Mohammad Salah is going to try to use President Bush’s commutation of “Scooter” Libby’s prison sentence to help him avoid sentencing at his own trial next week.
The ‘08 Race
Fred Thompson bragged about leaking info on the Watergate investigation to the Nixon administration during [...]
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Turning the Page: Legacy of Ashes
For all of its “successes” in Iran, Guatemala, Chile and Afghanistan, the CIA’s legacy is largely marked by long-term failures.
The agency failed to give warning of every significant international event from the onset of the Korean War through the Cuban Missile Crisis and the collapse of the Soviet Union up to 9/11.
That history is carefully [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
Robert Novak has no regrets about being the first to leak the name of former CIA officer Valerie Plame back in 2003. “Judging it on the merits, I would still write the story,” the columnist writes in his new memoir, “The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington.” He also calls Plame’s husband, [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington compile the White House’s abuses of executive power and prerogative in a new report: “Crossing the Line: The Bush Administration’s Efforts to Expand Its Powerful Reach.”
Iraq War
Missing in action: News coverage of private contract forces in Iraq. Only 7% of news organizations have examined issues related to the [...]
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