Friday, December 22, 2006
US Justice Department to investigate itself to assure public of no abuse in spying program.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Hillary Sells America to China/Power Borkering
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Only Bad News From Iraq???
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been stopped.
Rumsfeld told reporters he was mistaken in the earlier assertion. “I don’t have knowledge as to whether it’s been stopped. I do have knowledge it was put under review. I was correctly informed. And I just misstated the facts,” Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news briefing.Rumsfeld: Planting Stories Under Review - Yahoo! News
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Shiny Corruption
Rove to Senators: Clear Bush or Else
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has threatened to blacklist any Republican who votes against President Bush in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of the administration’s unauthorized wiretapping.
Being blacklisted would mean an end to any White House political or financial support for Senators running for re-election this year, sources told Insight magazine.
“It’s hardball all the way,” one GOP congressional aide declared.
The administration is worried that the defection of a handful of Republican committee members could lead to a finding that Bush violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - and possible impeachment hearings.
During the last few weeks, Rove has been meeting with GOP committee members to deliver the message: A vote against Bush would ravage Republican prospects in this year’s congressional elections, Insight reports.
But while Rove is threatening the stick - the blacklist - he is also holding out a carrot: White House offers to help loyal candidates with money and publicity, such as photo-ops with the president