The document dump from the Department of Justice has shown one very well-known name on the list of those to possibly be fired: U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had “not distinguished themselves” on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the […]
Think Progress has the video up of Chuck Schumer calling for Gonzales to step down as AG. I am going to take this a step further. I think Chuck Schumer should request a prosecutor to look at Gonzales and if he perjured himself before the committee in January. The Attorney General of the United States […]
The White House will stop at nothing until they get all the federal prosecutors replaced with their political buddies: A United States attorney in Arkansas who was dismissed from his job last year by the Justice Department was ousted after Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, intervened on behalf of the man who […]
While I do not believe these few soldiers represent the greater United States military, I fear that Iraqi’s will not want to distinguish them from their peers as easily: U.S. soldiers stepped outside the law when they murdered three Iraqi detainees “in cold blood,” a prosecutor told a U.S. military hearing on Friday. “U.S. soldiers […]
They must have taken a page right out of the old U.S.A. playbook on democracy: The daily newspaper El Universal reported 10 ballot boxes and a polling station report were found in a garbage dump in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Mexico City. Activists demonstrated outside offices of the government’s prosecutor for electoral […]
Newsday gives us this nice little bit of information: Now that top White House aide Karl Rove is off the hook in the CIA leak probe, President George W. Bush must weigh whether to pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the only one indicted in the three-year investigation. Speculation about a pardon […]
SKY NEWS have summorized the first day of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui US prosecutors have claimed terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui “rejoiced in the death” of the 9/11 attacks, a court heard. The 37-year-old has already pleaded guilty to being part of a plot to fly airliners into American buildings. But he denied any prior knowledge […]
President Bush constantly maintains that his domestic spying program is legal. If that is the case then why must we hear about this? The White House has been twisting arms to ensure that no Republican member votes against President Bush in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of the administration’s unauthorized wiretapping. Congressional sources said Deputy […]
Fitzgerald and the grand jury investigating the leak case were seen entering the court room at around 9:00 am eastern time today. According to Raw Story, sources close to the investigation say Fitzgerald has asked for indictments on Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. This information goes hand in hand with information coming out last night […]
Raw Story has done it again. They are breaking news on a second aide in Cheney’s office now cooperating with Patrick Fitzgerald on the leak investigation. The second aide is Cheney’s Middle East advisor David Wurmser. According to the article Wurmser has agreed to provide evidence to the prosecution that Cheney’s office did in fact […]