Archive for March, 2008
Scandal Sheet: Ties That Bind
Hil’s Campaign Manager Made $200,000 With Subprime Lender
Key McCain Advisers Were Lobbyists for Shady Lender
Pigs Fly! “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” Mogul Warms to Hillary
Google Helps NSA, CIA With Intelligence Database
Montana and New Hampshire Reject REAL-ID Plans
High Court Won’t Review Dispute Over Raid of “Dollar Bill” Jefferson’s Office
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Scandal Sheet: Obama’s Tall Tale
Obama Overstates Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Dad
Cash-$trapped Clinton Fails to Pay Bills
Top Iraq Auditor Improperly Accessed Our Emails, Staff Tells Grand Jury, FBI
DEA Losing More Weapons, Keeping More Laptops Since 2002 Audit
Audit: Foreigner Visitors to DOE Facilities Not Properly Tracked
Top Bush Adviser Felipe Sixto Resigns Under Cloud of Scandal
Secretaries, Law Clerks Grab Free Parking [...]
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Turning the Page:
‘The Dark Side of the Diamond’
After his first time using a performance-enhancing testosterone potion, the 32-year-old ballplayer had “one of the best games of his life,” batting in three runs with a double and a triple.
Barry Bonds? Jason Giambi? Jose Canseco?
No, James “Pud” Galvin, who was getting an extra boost back in 1889, more than a century before today’s steroids-abusing superstars.
The story [...]
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Scandal Sheet: Hil’s Lobbyist Dollars
Clinton Raised $880,000 From Lobbyists - Eight Times As Much as Obama
House Minority Leader Boehner & Lawmakers Meet Khadafy, Covet His Oil
Read ‘Bathtub Admirals’, Retired Navy Commander Jeff Huber’s Satirical Prequel to the Bush-Cheney Shenanigans
Did Columbian Guerrilla Group FARC Get Scammed or Were They the Ones Pedding Depleted Uranium?
Government Likes the Idea of Star Wars But Doesn’t Have a Strategy
State Prison [...]
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FDA Considering Action
On Singulair’s Possible Link to Suicide
The FDA just issued a statement on its ongoing investigation of Montelukast (Singulair):
“This information reflects FDA’s current analysis of available data concerning these drugs. Posting this information does not mean that FDA has concluded there is a causal relationship between the drug product and the emerging safety issue. Nor does it mean that FDA is [...]
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Scandal Sheet: Hil’s Not Alone
Hillary’s Not the Only Political Fabulist: See John McCain, LBJ, Tony Blair
Must-Read: How Did 22-Year-Old Get $300M in Contracts to Supply Used Ammunition to Pentagon?
Why NY Times Took 13 Months to Publish Wire-Tapping Story
Democrat Pushes Through $1.1M Earmark to Stop Republican’s Vacation Home From Flooding
Will Al Gore Take Up Challenge From Climate-Change Skeptic?
Alaska Suit Against [...]
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Congressmen’s Liaison to Saddam
Lobbied for Iraq’s Top Sunni Party
Muthanna al-Hanooti, the Islamic charity official under federal indictment for helping facilitate three Congressmen’s visits to Saddam Hussein in 2002 has been working as a lobbyist for the coalition of al-Tawafuq, the largest Sunni political party in Iraq.
Among his tasks was helping undermine Shiite leaders in Iraq, such as current and former Prime Ministers Nouri al-Maliki [...]
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McCain’s VP: Portman, Condi, Colin?
Amid all the speculation about John McCain’s choice of running mate, you’d have to be a fool not to bet that his advisers are reaching out to Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell.
Still, Bob Novak (who has a lot more sources in this area than we do) is convinced that former trade rep Rob Portman is [...]
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Scandal Sheet: Hil Lures Greenspan
Hil’s Mortgage Solution: Bring Back Greenspan, Who Ignored Warnings of Crisis
The Sex-Scandal Map of the Beltway - Talk About Foggy Bottom!
Bush Childhood Home Fundraiser - Another Way to Influence the White House?
Google To Shareholders: Vote No on Anti-Censorship Proposal
Bear Stearns General Counsel Michael Solender Cashed In Before Stock Price Crashed
Cable Firms Try to Cover Up [...]
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Pakistan’s Lobbying Wars in D.C.:
Bhutto’s Widower Goes on Hiring Spree
To win over the Bush administration, the Pakistan People’s Party has chosen a time-worn strategy: Hire more lobbyists.
The party, led by Benazhir Bhutto’s widower, Asif ali Zardari, which belongs to a coalition that overwhelmingly defeated the party of Pakistan’s unpopular leader Pervez Musharaff last month, recently retained Locke Lord Strategies to lobby the White House [...]
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