Now the Republican White House does not like Republican passed laws: An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts. Senior officials have […]
First they get victimized by the Government’s inactions during Katrina. Now they get their Constitutional rights shredded by FEMA: Residents of trailer parks set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisiana aren’t allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported. In one […]
From CNN: Enron founder Kenneth Lay died early Wednesday in Aspen, a family spokeswoman said. He was 64. In a statement, spokeswoman Kelly Kimberly said, “The Lays have a very large family with whom they need to communicate, and out of respect for the family we will release further details at a later time.” In […]
And the numbers keep growing and growing and growing. A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees has been stolen, officials said. The computer was stolen Monday from the Washington home of an employee of ING U.S. Financial Services, said officials with the company, […]
Well things are really heating up in DC: Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of the CIA’s outgoing executive director, the FBI said. The agency’s third ranking official, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the CIA’s inspector general, said […]
Can we say OUCH: President Bush’s approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections. The survey of 1,013 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, shows Bush’s standing down by 3 percentage points in a single week. His […]
ABC earlier posted a memo that was supposedly leaked from someone in the White House. They did this on their political page “The Note” Maybe leaks are going to be more common in the Tony Snow Era. The man has not even started officially yet as White House press secretary, and already the tightness of […]
Now we got Cheney going even further than Bush to ignore the laws of these United States: As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as “top secret” or “confidential,” one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. A standing […]
More possible jobs cuts look likely: BY ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER The specter of a new Ma Bell-styled telephone monopoly could put Michigan jobs at risk now that AT&T Inc. has announced it will cut as many as 10,000 positions across the country if it buys BellSouth Corp. The proposed $67-billion deal that […]
Some stories just make me laugh and wonder what exactly is the point, is someone really going to buy this book and suddenly decide to mount convert operations…doubt it, the people who would do such a thing are either military or terrorist trained already, anyways who needs a book when there’s the internet…. BBC News […]