From Reuters: The secretive U.S. government foreign investment review process that approved an Arab company’s deal to assume management of terminals at six U.S. ports is “deeply flawed” and should be revamped, a leading lawmaker said on Sunday. Senate Homeland Security Chairman Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said she and the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. […]
Looks like old Dick my be getting into some hot water and hisshooting a hunter isn’t the cause of it: Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday. Sen. […]
It is not only Democrats, the Press and 76% of Americans who think the White House should come clean on Abramoff. Republican lawmakers are also included in that bunch now: Republican lawmakers urged President George W. Bush on Sunday to release records of White House contacts with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the center of a […]
The bomb called “Medicare reform” I have been talking about since the new prescription drug program took effect first of the year is now starting to get some discussion in the mainstream. WASHINGTON – The Medicare drug program that was supposed to win political points for Republicans has exploded in their faces as this election […]
The bomb called “Medicare reform” I have been talking about since the new prescription drug program took effect first of the year is now starting to get some discussion in the mainstream. WASHINGTON – The Medicare drug program that was supposed to win political points for Republicans has exploded in their faces as this election […]
The following is an update to the Bob Ney story: House Speaker Dennis Hastert is trying to force out Ohio Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record) as chairman of the House Administration Committee, a week after Justice Department documents linked Ney to a bribery scheme involving convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Ney’s committee has jurisdiction […]
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, […]
Here is probably one of the worst arguments I have heard about the Iraq war: Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record) says the military is blaming him for a recruitment slump instead of recognizing mistakes that have led to an enlistment shortage. “They’re trying to direct attention away from their problems,” said Murtha, D-Pa., […]
It appears that more and more Democrats in Congress was telling the NSA their wiretapping program was not legal. WASHINGTON – The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee told President Bush Wednesday that the White House broke the law by withholding information from the full congressional oversight committees about a new domestic surveillance program. […]
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 […]