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by Greg Palast (BradBlog)

In her opening testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blond underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One...and the Committee members didn't

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Federal Times

An Office of Special Counsel report has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job, sources say. [when I was a thug, this was ser

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Raw Story

Susan Ralston, the former executive assistant to top White House adviser Karl Rove, invoked her rights against self-incrimination while she was being asked to answer questions by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee**

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AntiWar

The World Bank has just appointed a new manager for Iraq despite security and corruption concerns. The news emerged just days after outgoing World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz promised not make any major new appointments at the institution.

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Reuters

The White House on Sunday fired back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling him "increasingly irrelevant" a day after Carter described George W. Bush's presidency as the worst in history in international relations.

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AP

Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

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Think Progress

Six+ Senate Republicans have now called on Gonzales to resign. Specter said he believes support for the no confidence vote is “very substantial,” and that if Gonzales “sees that coming, that he would prefer to avoid that kind of an historical black m

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Christian Science Monitor

First came revelations about the firing of US attorneys. Now Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is taking criticism from Congress for a second controversial subject: warrantless eavesdropping. Specifically, key lawmakers want to know about Mr. Gonz

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NY Times

There were many fascinating threads to the testimony by the former deputy attorney general, James Comey, who described the night in March 2004 when two top White House officials tried to pressure an ailing and hospitalized Attorney General John Ashcr

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Washington Post

On the day presidential senior adviser Karl Rove administered a tongue-lashing to a Republican congressman, disturbing news about his former executive assistant was spread on Capitol Hill. GOP House members learned that Susan Ralston is requesting im

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Christian Science Monitor

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at a May 15 appearance at the National Press Club said that his understanding was the firings reflected the particular view of Deputy Attorney General McNulty, as well as other senior Justice officials. Yet there

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Reuters

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, considered firing at least 26 U.S. attorneys during the period. Gonzales testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that the effort was limited to eight U.S.

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AP

Three U.S. soldiers slaughtered in a grisly kidnapping-murder plot south of Baghdad last June were not properly protected during a mission that was not well planned or executed, a military investigation has concluded.

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Reuters

Paul Wolfowitz, whose resignation was announced on Thursday, took over the World Bank in mid-2005 carrying a legacy as an architect of the Iraq war that never ceased to trouble his critics inside and outside the poverty-fighting institution.

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Washington Post

The officials, who include senior White House adviser Karl Rove and Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, argued that the judge should dismiss a lawsuit filed by Wilson that stemmed from the disclosure of Plame's

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