The Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report today showing that the recruitment levels of our military are worse than we had actually been told. The following is a highlight of the shortfalls as described in this New York Times article. Army, National Guard, Marines – Signed up 1/3 of special forces, translators and intelligence […]
Roy Blunt is now involved in the legal problems of Tom Delay as reported in today’s New York Times: Prosecutors Seek More of DeLay’s Records By THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 – Texas prosecutors in the criminal case against Representative Tom DeLay issued a subpoena on Wednesday for records of transactions between his […]
The New York Times has an interesting article today pointing out other disaster prone areas this country has. It seems that Katrina has awaken most of the country to look into their deteriorating infrastructures and high risk areas and are now more worried than they were this past summer. Some of those possible disasters waiting […]
I guess the elections last week is starting to bother the Republicans in Senate. Now they want to pass a resolution forcing Bush to set a clear plan to withdrawal from Iraq and also supply them with quarterly updates. The plan stops short of requiring an actual timeline. From today’s New York Times WASHINGTON, Nov. […]
A front page article in today’sNew York Times shows that Jack Abramoff’s dirty hands reached around the world. According to the article, in 2003 Abramoff lobbied President Omar Bongo of Gabon, a small African Nation, for $9 million in order to set up a meeting with President Bush. Ten months later that meeting happened. The […]
The New York Times has just broken the story that it was Dick Cheney who told Scooter Libby about plame. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24  I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks […]
According to an article in today’s New York Times, Patrick Fitzgerald is not planning on releasing a report into his findings. This heightens expectations that indictments will be coming out of the two year old investigation. They are saying that they don’t expect Mr. Fitzgerald to take any actions in the case this week, pushing […]
Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, has “a problem” in the investigation of the leak of a CIA operative’s identity if his testimony conflicts with information given to the grand jury by New York Times reporter Judith Miller, her lawyer said yesterday. Robert S. Bennett, speaking on the ABC program […]
Howard Kurtz has an interesting column in the Washington Post today where he has examined the response of the blogosphere to Judith Miller’s story. While questions are being asked around the internet about her security clearance that she received from the Department of Defense (see this article atPoynter Online by former CBS correspondent Bill Lynch), […]
Via Raw Story: Reporter in leak case to take leave of absence effective immediately 10/15/2005 @ 4:19 pm Filed by John Byrne and Jason Leopold New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who spent 85 days in jail protecting her source in the recent CIA leak investigation, will take an indefinite leave of absence effective immediately. […]