This is rather interesting: Officials from six major oil companies have refused to testify this week at a Senate hearing looking into whether oil industry mergers in recent years have made gasoline more expensive at the pump. With oil companies reporting record profits from higher energy prices, consumer groups have complained that mergers in the […]
A prelude to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s questioning of Gonzalez A study shows that Republicans are more likely to be racists The second phase of the pre-war intelligence report is being stalled. Why won’t the media report thefacts on new polls. Chris has released his fourth installment of his polling project. Matthew’s thinks the warrantless […]
The conservative magazineInsight gives us a story that makes the left drool: The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress. “A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment,” an administration source said. Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process could begin with hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. […]
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, […]
So what say you Mr. Gonzales The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify during open hearings on the legality of the Bush administration’s domestic spying program. Hearings are planned for early February into the National Security Agency program that President Bush approved in 2002, […]
Turns out Alito also defended the Regan administration in warantless wiretaps. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps when he worked for the Reagan Justice Department, documents released Friday show. He advocated a step by step approach to strengthening the hand of officials in a 1984 memo […]
The story of Bush authorizing spying on citizens has really snow balled into the story of the day. This just came out on theAP: Bush Approved Eavesdropping, Official Says By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer President Bush has personally authorized a secretive eavesdropping program in the United States more than three dozen times since October […]
On October 18, the Senate judiciary committee will start hearings into the ties between Timothy Flanigan and Jack Abramoff. Flanigan was nominated by President Bush in May to become Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department. Abramoff was a lobbyist for Tyco, where Flanigan became a senior vice president in 2002. Flanigan joined Tyco following […]
Via Bloomberg Specter Urges Delay in Replacement of O’Connor at Supreme Court Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he urged President George W. Bush today to delay nominating a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said he talked to Justice O’Connor about […]