The trial of Scooter Libby is still 10 months away but already we are learning that his defense could expose serious problems within the White House, in particular, their claims for the war in Iraq. Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide are suggesting they may delve deeply at his criminal trial into […]
Insight Magazine has this new piece of information up. Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to retire within a year. Senior GOP sources envision the retirement of Mr. Cheney in 2007, months after the congressional elections. The sources said Mr. Cheney would be persuaded to step down as he becomes an increasing political liability to […]
Ah now we know why Cheney decided to do his interview yesterday with Brit Hume: President Bush’s top political aide, Karl Rove, pushed Vice President Dick Cheney to speak publicly about shooting a fellow hunter, sources tell CBS News. Rove worried the vice president’s silence on the issue was becoming a political problem, CBS News […]
With someone like Dick Cheney, a person who is on his third term as vice-President and has served for numerous other administrations, you would think he knew how Washington should work. Then again, you can’t teach an old dog new (or old) tricks: NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A source described as close to the Bush […]
Looks like old Dick my be getting into some hot water and hisshooting a hunter isn’t the cause of it: Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday. Sen. […]
So now the Vice-President has the authority to just leak out classified information at a time of war? Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been “authorized” by Cheney and other White House “superiors” in the summer of 2003 to disclose […]
Yesterday I was sitting here wondering if I should continue one of my year of scam blogs, Helluvaburden. I started it to keep track of all the news surrounding Halliburton’s corruption. For the past couple months there hasn’t been too much news regarding them, then I wake up this morning and realize the debate that […]
Last week after the Abramoff story exploded, the White House went into a defensive mode: On Wednesday, McClellan called Abramoff’s actions “outrageous†and reiterated to reporters that Bush was not friends with the lobbyist and does not recall ever meeting himâ€â€Âthough he said it was possible that Bush met Abramoff at a fund-raising function or […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 – The limited oral briefings provided by the White House to a handful of lawmakers about the domestic eavesdropping program may not have fulfilled a legal requirement under the National Security Act that calls for such reports to be in written form, Congressional officials from both parties said on Tuesday. The White […]
The White House took issue on Thursday with a claim by syndicated columnist Robert Novak that President George W. Bush knows who the source is who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. “I don’t know what he’s basing it on,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan, declining to comment further. Novak said Tuesday […]