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Leahy To Bush: You And Me At High Noon
Game on: The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday that he will attempt to cite the White House for criminal contempt of Congress if it does not turn over documents related to the firing of nine federal prosecutors. "If they don’t cooperate, yes, I’d go that far," Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said on NBC’s [...]
Tags: Leahy, Bush, Judiciary Committee, Contempt of Congress
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Needing a few more good men and/or women...
Campaign Puts Strain on Secret Service
"It’s hole-plugging time for the U.S. Secret Service," the Kansas City Star reports. "The arm of Homeland Security faces a major strain as the 2008 presidential campaign heats up. More than 500 Secret Service agents are expected to provide protection for candidates." "Perhaps half of those agents will be [...]
Tags: Presidential Campaign, Presidential Candidates, Secret Service
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Not.
Europeans see U.S. as biggest world threat.
A new Financial Times poll finds “that 32 percent of respondents in five European countries regard the US as a bigger threat than any other state,” followed up by China, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea: Also, “the youngest US respondents share the Europeans’ view that theirs is the biggest threat, with 35 per cent of American [...]
Tags: Threat, Financial Times, Poll
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I've caught it a few times, the chemistry among the folks is pretty solid. I'll likely find myself watching, particularly if they keep the editorial "edge" that Mika's been exhibiting...
It looks like the rumors are true: Joe Scarborough is getting the Don Imus spot on MSNBC. Howard Kurtz at The Washington Post is reporting that Scarborough and MSNBC are in final negotiations to make his Morning Joe show the permanent show in the 6am to 9am slot on the network. Scarborough has been filling in (with other hosts, such as David Gregory) since Imus went bye-bye, and has been getting [...]
Tags: Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski
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Bloggers on the Conservative side of things are all agog over a report that Iraqi deaths were down. However, U.S. military deaths are up. Is that the tradeoff we want?
You won't learn about this from the NY Times or CBS news, which is why the Internet is so important. "Iraqi civilian deaths in Baghdad dropped significantly in June, a possible indication that recent American military operations around the country and raids on car-bomb shops in the "belts" ringing the capital are starting to pay off. But June also marked the end of the bloodiest quarter for U.S. troops since the war began in March 2003. Unofficial figures compiled by McClatchy Newspapers' show [...]
And, as one of the McClatchey newspaper folks in the Baghdad bureau points out...
I wish to take a few minutes of your time. Read what I read today. If you have an explanation [...]
Tags: Iraq War, Casualties
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Things are just a tad bit backwards and upside down, wouldn't you say?
From an op-ed in the Miami Herald from James Ross of Human Rights Watch: "It’s not every day that a 26-year veteran in U.S. military intelligence puts his career on the line by publicly criticizing a high-profile operation. But Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, an Army reservist and lawyer, did just that last week in a Supreme [...]
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Detainees
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There are questions being asked. By the President. Not the questions you might expect, however...
‘There’s no adult supervision; it’s like he’s oblivious’
We’ve been hearing quite a bit lately about the president reaching out to observers outside his inner circle for big-picture bull sessions. In April, Bush met with some “big money players up from Texas,” who got out exactly one question before president launched into an extended rant about how no one understands him. In May, [...]
Tags: George W. Bush
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Riding the tidalwave of spending, guess who's in the lead?
When the president deems it meritorious, it is not pork
Libby at Newshoggers points out that when it comes to bills laden with extraneous spending, the biggest profligate is George W. Bush: "A House Appropriations Committee report accompanying legislation funding the Department of the Interior shows that Bush requested 93 of the 321 earmarks in the bill. A panel report for the [...]
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New week. The one with a holiday right smack dab in the middle. At least, here in the U.S. we have a day off. Your plans? We'll try to get posts back on track after a busy weekend, but will likely take a break on Wednesday, along with the rest of the country.
US Had Warnings About Glasgow; They Never Reached Scotland
Maybe this could be the big news story about the attempted terrorist attacks in Britain, instead of “ZOMG yards away!” A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror “spectacular” this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document. …As ABCNews.com reported, [...]
Tags: Terrorists, Terror Attacks
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First, the judge says "no get out of jail card" for Scooter. Then...
Of course. He commuted his prison sentence. (Not a pardon as headline originally said.) But still an outrage. So what if Bush left the fine in place? Benefactors have been helping with legal fees already. He does the crime, but he does no time. Here's Bush's statement. Poor Scooter's sentence was [...]
Tags: Libby, George W. Bush, Commuted
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