Day: January 30, 2009

The State Department has told Blackwater Worldwide, that it will not renew its contract in Iraq. The move was not a surprise after Iraq’s decision to deny a license to Blackwater.

Banks benefiting from the $700 billion bailout should be pressed to better explain what they are doing with the money, a government investigative agency said.

A former member of Jack Abramoff’s lobbying team, Todd Boulanger, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in federal court.

Four days before President George W. Bush left office, his lawyer advised Karl Rove that he should refuse to cooperate with Congressional inquiries into the firing of United States attorneys.

The $220,000 in speaking fees was just a fraction of the $5.3 million Daschle took in over the last two years.

Darrel Thompson will be Burris’ temp. chief of staff.

It took all afternoon and into the evening, and six votes, but the new Chair of the Republican National Committee is Michael Steele (who lost his Senate bid to Ben Cardin in 2006, primarily because he refused to put "Republican" on any of his materials, but pushed his campaign to "Steele Democrats.") He was featured in an ABC report in 2006:

Daschle paid $140,000 in back taxes and interest in recent weeks – much of it due to a car and driver.

Bob Bauer, as the Democratic Party’s new lawyer, will have unmatched power in Democratic legal circles.

Daschle suddenly finds himself in deep trouble.