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The Heirarchical Equivalent to a Signing Statement

Posted in Bush Administration, tagged , , , , on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

While the president was vacationing at his ranch over the winter holiday, he signed into law the Open Government Act. This law is designed to force the government to cooperate better with the existing Freedom of Information Act, where requests for information take months or even years before they get a response if the [...]

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Muskasey- Just Another Bushie

Posted in DoJ, business, tagged , , , , on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve been watching Mukasey for a while, we were on the fence with his appointment: was he just another republican hack or was he the real thing as some have claimed? It seems like the jury is in, and Mukasey is just more of the same old thing. First he can’t decide [...]

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CIA Tape Case – New Developments

Posted in CIA, DoJ, tagged , , , , , on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Bush Administration must love the fact that this CIA tape case broke just before Christmas and then got swept under the rug by both the holiday and the groundswell of presidential campaign hyperbolic naval gazing that’s been going since the start of this year. Despite the overall lack of coverage by the [...]

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Ashcroft Gets No-Bid Contract

Posted in DoJ, tagged , , , on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In a weird confluence of Bush’s foreign policy playbook and the corruption present at every level of the Department of Justice, it seems Ashcroft has landed himself a multi-million dollar no-bid legal contract. It seems Mr. Mukasey is leading a happy band of wise guys, who will carry on the Gonzo tradition of corruption [...]

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CIA Tape Case -Criminal Probe Launched

Posted in CIA, DoJ, Guantanamo Bay, Mukasey, tagged , , , , on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Its been nearly a month since we started reporting on the destruction of the CIA torture tapes. We’re sure that certain folks within the administration were hoping it would go away in an egg nog induced haze, the case got new teeth yesterday when Attorney General Michael Mukasey launched a criminal probe into what happened [...]

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Mukasey Walking The Line

Posted in Bush Administration, DoJ, Mukasey, tagged , , , on December 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »

New Attorney General Michael Mukasey is walking a fine line between being just another Bush crony and someone who could actually try and repair the damage done during the Fredo years at DoJ.  While he’s revised DoJ policy to limit contacts with the White House, he also argued before the American Bar Association [...]

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Fashionably Late: The New York Times on Inherent Contempt

Posted in Bush Administration, DoJ, inherent contempt, tagged , , , on December 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »

We reported on Inherent Contempt in July when congress filed contempt charges against Josh Bolten and Harriet Meiers. Who refused to comply with the subpeonas issued to them on a claim of executive privledge so vast, we’re sure we are probably covered under it somewhere. The New York Times finally got around to [...]

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Abramoff Aftershock

Posted in Bush Administration, DoJ, tagged , , on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

As reported by the Associated Press the United States Secret Service is refusing to release documents related to White House visits by the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Abramoff has had seven known visits to the White House, six in 2001 and one in early 2004, according to the New York Times. However, the [...]

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