(updated and bumped) The Muckraker has uncovered a gem from the DOJ document dump: Four months after the San Diego United States Attorney’s office launched an investigation into whether he had accepted bribes from defense contractors, and little more than a month before he pled guilty to those charges, Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) signed on […]
Next week the House will hold hearings on the firing of federal prosecutors. John Conyers issued the first subpoenas since the Democrats took over in this case. He subpoenaed the fired prosecutors to testify before the Judiciary Committee, which Conyers chairs. It has also come out now that Heather Wilson and Pete Domenci were the […]
While Senate Democrats tip-toe around Feingold’s censure resolution, a group of Democrats in the House are taking action: 32 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. Their […]
I got to say this is big. I said in my Sunday Line Up post that “This Week” looked promising and indeed it was: In an exclusive interview on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on the Senate to publicly admonish President Bush for approving domestic wiretaps on American citizens without […]
Bush is down to a 37% approval rating in the latest poll released byCBS and the New York Times. 7 out of 10 respondents also are concerned the deficit will grow by the end of Bush’s Presidency. It will be interesting to see what the numbers do next week after the State of the Union […]
Some quick sound clips from this morning’s hearings on the NSA spying conducted by house Democrats. First it should be noted that the Republicans have once again forced the Democrats to hold the hearings in the basement. They said no committee rooms were available and as John Conyers pointed out, “it is odd for them […]
Yesterday Russell Tice, the former NSA whistleblower who said he would testify before Congress, admitted to being one of the source’s for Risen’s article which exposed the wiretapping story in last month’s New York Times. Tice also appeared on Nightline last night. During his interview on Nightline, he described the NSA program. According to Tice, […]
CensureBush.org has been launched in conjunction with afterdowningstreet.org to support new legislation introduced to the House today to censure President Bush and Vice-President Cheney when it comes to the pre-war intelligence on Iraq. It also supports legislation which was also introduced to set up a committee to investigate rather or not impeachable offenses were committed […]
The finger pointing has begun and today Michael Brown pointed it right at the Louisiana officials. This should come as no shock as he is out to protect his new job as FEMA’s consultant into what went wrong. An interesting turn of events if being reported on Capital Buzz, which is reporting that Brown may […]
From Raw Story Landmark hate crimes legislation passes House 09/14/2005 @ 5:36 pm In an unexpected 223-199 vote, the House of Representatives passed sweeping hate crimes legislation Wednesday, including protections for minorities and gays who are the subject of hate crimes. The bill, authored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), was a rider on another bill […]