House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis, one of several members of Congress under federal investigation over his ties to a corrupt lobbyist, has brought in a high-profile Los Angeles legal team to try and keep him out of jail.
Rep. Alan Mollohan claims he got rich because he’s a savvy investor not because he’s a crook.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was hoodwinked to pay for a divorce, season football tickets, a tropical vacation and a sex change operation, the audit found. Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a New Orleans cemetery for a home address and a person who spent 70 days at a Hawaiian hotel all were able to get taxpayer help, according to evidence that gives a new black eye to the nation’s disaster relief agency.
Freed from the threat of indictment, President Bush’s political swami, Karl Rove, was on the road and on the attack again.
The first gush of instant analysis from Bush loyalists and even Washington’s media elite was that it was great news for the White House when special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald informed Karl Rove that he doesn’t anticipate seeking charges against him in the CIA leak case.
Sometime between now and the Fourth of July, the Senate plans to revisit what over the course of 17 years has become a seasonal rite of patriotism on Capitol Hill: a vote on whether to amend the Constitution to ban protesters from burning the American flag.
President George W. Bush’s latest clandestine trip to Iraq ain’t playing all that well.
Truthout executive director Marc Ash called the site’s story on a so-called indictment of Bush guru Karl Rove "the biggest story we have ever covered." William Rivers Pitt called those who questioned the report "cretins" and publicly scolded the founder of Democratic Underground, saying: "When this story pans out, and all the little fish try to swim home, I am going to say ‘Sorry, you had the chance to stand with an ally, and instead, decided to say ‘I find it very hard not to be skeptical.”"