This story just keeps taking more new and interesting turns: In another twist in the News Of The World scandal, a former reporter for the tabloid who initially alleged that editor Andy Coulson knew about the practice of phone hacking by his staff, was reportedly found dead Monday. The Guardian reports that though police wouldn’t […]
I’m glad we don’t have to worry about this asshole becoming President: Rudolph W. Giuliani likens himself to a boxer who never takes a punch without swinging back. As mayor, he made the vengeful roundhouse an instrument of government, clipping anyone who crossed him. In August 1997, James Schillaci, a rough-hewn chauffeur from the Bronx, […]
From Today’s Washington Post: The Supreme Court made it harder Tuesday for whistle-blowers to share in the proceeds from fraud lawsuits against government contractors. The court ruled 6-2 that James Stone, an 81-year-old retired engineer, may not collect a penny for his role in exposing fraud at the now-closed Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant northwest […]
Whistle Blower has become a bad term in the Bush administration and they won’t stop trying to silent them: Two senior officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who opposed many questionable management and spending decisions by the agency’s former director are being moved to lower-ranking positions effective Thursday, officials said. Deputy […]
Salon has a very interesting article today that might give us a glimpse into the next big debate over Iraq: Congress has demanded that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hand over a raft of documents to Congress that could substantiate allegations that U.S. forces have tried to break terror suspects by kidnapping and mistreating their […]
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, […]
We might have a witness to the wiretapping case. A former National Security Agency official wants to tell Congress about electronic intelligence programs that he asserts were carried out illegally by the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Russ Tice, a whistleblower who was dismissed from the NSA last year, stated in letters to the […]
Ok we now know who the Supreme Court nominee is. That means it is time to shift focus back to the big scandal. I am of course talking about Karl Rove. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the State Department memo which identified Plame seems to be one of the key pieces of evidence […]