Followin up on my earlier post about Republicans wanting to cut earmarks, we can now have a look into one wasteful program that was pushed through by Republicans in Congress: An anti-terrorism program contracted to an industry lobbying group has sparked criticism from Democratic congressional overseers, agency investigators, former employees and watchdog groups. Meanwhile, two […]
We find out that the person in charge of the division investigating the Abramoff scandal had to resign because of his ties to Abramoff: A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the Department’s expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to authorize more subpoenas in the U.S.A. purge. Five of the subpoenas are targeting Justice Department officials. In the wake of this growing scandal, we also find out from Murray Waas that Bush worked to shut down another investigation that may have targeted Gonzales: Shortly before Attorney General Alberto […]
Turns out Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist logged over 100 visits to the Bush White House. What makes this so interesting is the fact both men have been tied to Jack Abramoff. So how much longer before we get investigators looking at what “presidential favors” Bush did for these guys, which in turn were for […]
So now people in the Bush administration find it “strange” that laws apply to them? The topic was the largest defense procurement scandal in recent decades, and the two investigators for the Pentagon’s inspector general in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s office on April 1, 2005, asked the secretary to raise his hand and swear […]
From TPM Muckraker Hayden, President Bush’s pick to replace Porter Goss as head of the CIA, contracted with MZM Inc. for the services of Lt. Gen. James C. King, then a senior vice president of the company, the sources say. MZM was owned and operated by Mitchell Wade, who has admitted to bribing former Rep. […]
Knight Ridder has broken open a story that spans over a couple big scandals. Those scandals are Randy Cunningham and the spying on anti-war activists: A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on […]
The radical right has been trying to pin the church fires in Alabama on the left. Even Chris Matthews had his little go at it. Now it turns out they did it as a “joke”. This from the AP: Three college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in […]
The press conference with officials investigating Jack Abramoff has just ended. It was rather interesting but short lived in comparison to that of Patrick Fitzgerald’s conference when he indicted Scooter Libby. It was brought out that in the terms of today’s deal with Abramoff he will face between 9 1/2 and 11 years in prison […]
According to Raw Story, Fitzgerald is still seeking indictments against Karl Rove and could possibly have his top aide testify before a grand jury as early as Monday. Here’s a short excerpt from the entire article According to lawyers familiar with the case, Fitzgerald is trying to convince the grand jury that Rove made false […]