Perhaps this from the WSJ Blogs gives a good reason: If there’s any doubt about the importance of getting a record of Senate investigative interviews, consider the case of J. Steven Griles. Griles, the former deputy Interior secretary, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Washington today to lying to Senate investigators when he […]
The hero. The idol. The man they set up on a pedestal for the entire conservative movement is now implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal: Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, “perpetrated a fraud” on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a […]
Like everyone else being investigated for their dealings with Abramoff, Bob Ney is no different. He has taken the same stance of “not remembering” key events like this one: Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney didn’t recall meeting with members of the Tigua tribe of Texas when Senate investigators questioned him during a probe of rogue […]
The report released by McCain’s Indian Affairs Committee sure makes it look bad for old Bob Ney. As matter of fact it looks like he may have done the same thing Clinton did to get impeached: In the fall of 2004, Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) told Senate investigators that he was unfamiliar with a […]
We now have at least one republican in Senate joining the fight with Democrats to investigate the pre-war intelligence. That Senator is none other than John McCain: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has emerged as a leading opponent of the Bush administration’s policy on interrogating detainees in the war on terrorism, wants Senate investigators to […]