Via Techcrunch comes a very interesting story out of Pennsylvania. Republican Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, Tom Corbett, has subpoenaed Twitter in attempts to identify some anonymous critics: The account @CasaBlancaPA, whose owner is identified as ‘Signor Ferrari’ (a criminal in the film Casablanca, played by Sydney Greenstreet) on Twitter, links to this blog in […]
More trouble for old John: A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. has issued document subpoenas to at least a half-dozen Nevada companies with ties to Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), a sign that the criminal probe into Ensign’s romantic relationship with a former aide is accelerating. The existence of the subpoenas was first reported by […]
Just in time for the next election cycle: The Senate Ethics Committee has begun issuing subpoenas to those caught up in the sex and lobbying scandal surrounding Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and his former aides, Doug and Cindy Hampton. Several people close to the scandal said they received document subpoenas on Thursday from the committee […]
NPR: “The Salahis’ testimony is important to explain how a couple circumvented layers of security at the White House on the evening of a state dinner without causing alarm,” Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman, said in a statement released by his committee last night. “If the Salahis are absent from tomorrow’s hearing, the […]
CBS had posted this update earlier today: Update 1:59pm E.T.: A Justice Department official familiar with this subpoena just told me that the attorney general’s office never saw it and that it had not been submitted to the department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. for review. If that’s correct, it suggests that U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison […]
It looks like action is starting to happen in regards to AIG. Of course Cuomo is leading the way: New York state’s attorney general joined the growing list of those angered by news of American International Group’s bonuses, and wants to have details on his desk this afternoon about who is getting it rewarded. Attorney […]
Now that Sarah Palin is done playing celebrity (hopefully), she gets to go back to work in Alaska and face some big problems: Palin’s state budget proposal is due in a month, with plummeting oil prices slashing Alaska’s revenues by billions of dollars. The 1,700-mile natural gas pipeline she bragged about on the campaign trail […]
This will be so much fun: The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney’s office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program. Also named in subpoenas signed by committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., were the Justice Department and the National Security Council. The four parties have until […]
Then the Democrats need to start the subpoenas and date him to try and claim “executive privilege”. Sorry – that applies to the “executive” branch – a branch Cheney is not part of under his own “rules”. Let’s see how the administration argues it’s way out of that one.
It appears now that the Justice Department may have delayed the investigation into Rep. Rick Renzi until after the elections last year: As midterm elections approached last November, federal investigators in Arizona faced unexpected obstacles in getting needed Justice Department approvals to advance a corruption investigation of Republican Rep. Rick Renzi, people close to the […]