Two Senators today called for an investigation of Dick Cheney and whether he ordered Libby or others to leak classified information pertaining to the War in Iraq to reporters in an effort to bolster the Administration’s claims about weapons of mass destruction.
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Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he’d like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was put on leave by his boss.
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Senior aides to President George Bush were informed on the day Hurricane Katrina hit that their “worst nightmare” had befallen New Orleans, a Senate investigation was told yesterday, contradicting assertions by the White House that they were not immediately aware of the scale of the disaster.
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Iran is sponsoring a competition for Holocaust cartoons in retaliation for Mohammad cartoons, one of which depicted him with a bomb in his turban, which first ran in Denmark last September.
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The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of “cherry-picking” intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
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The conservative publication Insight on the News is reporting White House deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove is threatening any Republican Senate Judiciary members who challenge the White House on the domestic surveillance program. According to Insight, “Sources said the blacklist would mean a halt in any White House political or financial support of senators running for re-election in November.†A senior Republican aide told the publication: “It’s hardball all the way.â€
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After weeks of insisting it would not reveal details of its eavesdropping without warrants, the White House reversed course Wednesday and provided a House committee with highly classified information about the operation.
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George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters’ access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word “theory” at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.
Mr. Deutsch’s resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted.
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This year’s budget has allotted $27 million to make a bunch of new nuclear weapons.
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An eight-year, $415 million dollar study found that a low fat diet isn’t actually that beneficial.
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During Monday’s hearing on NSA’s secret survellience program , Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., was expected to press Gonzales on why, during Gonzales’ confirmation hearings last year to be attorney general, he dismissed as “hypothetical” a situation in which the government conducted warrantless eavesdropping. The NSA program was long in place by then, and Gonzales was White House counsel. Assistant Attorney General William Moschella, in a letter Friday to Feingold, said Gonzales was referring to as “hypothetical” the idea that Bush would allow warrantless monitoring that was illegal.
That statement is accurate, Moschella wrote in a letter obtained by the AP, because the administration’s position is that Bush had legal authority under the 2001 congressional resolution.
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Captain Harvey Bennett of Long Island cast off five plastic bottles last August, hoping that at least one of them would deliver its message to foreign climes, the local East Hampton Star newspaper reported. The recent arrival of a package stamped in Britain suggested that his wish had come true, but Bennett’s excitement was swiftly diluted by the enclosed reply.
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Iran ended snap U.N. checks of its nuclear sites and said it was resuming uranium enrichment, a day after being reported to the Security Council over suspicions it is building nuclear weapons.
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According to senior Pentagon officials and documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, next week Bush will request a $439.3 billion Defense Department budget for 2007, a nearly 5 percent increase over this year. That request does not include the $120 billion dollars the Bush administration says it will spend on the ongoing military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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House Republicans have elected Ohio Congressmember John Boehner to replace Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader.
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Donald Rumsfeld said that warrentless surveillance of U.S. civilians is no big deal.
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The war in Iraq costs the United States about $100,000 a minute
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Among the areas slated for cutbacks needed due to deficits caused by war and tax cuts for the rich are medicare, medicaid, public education, and mental health.
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Thousands of school and college students have been detained over the past three months in continued unrest in Ethiopia, an international human rights group said.
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U.S. consumers started the new year in an upbeat mood, as inflation ate into their paychecks and gasoline prices climbed, reports showed on Tuesday.
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