In January, [tag]House[/tag] [tag]GOP[/tag] leaders unveiled a proposal to [tag]reform[/tag] the way Congress does business and, at least on the surface, curtail the influence of [tag]lobbyists[/tag]. The plan was presented at the height of the [tag]Abramoff[/tag] scandal, and was meant to prove that Republicans were serious about cleaning up the mess on the Hill (which […]
[tag]Time[/tag] reports this week that new White House Chief of Staff [tag]Josh Bolten[/tag] has a plan to “reboot the second term.” It also notes that this has now happened “so many times (at least three, by Time’s count) that even their allies have lost track.” But this one’s different, the [tag]White House[/tag] says. This time, […]
To follow up on an item from Saturday, Tyler Drumheller, the former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, was on 60 Minutes last night, explaining that the intelligence community gave the White House plenty of reliable intelligence about Iraq before the war, but the Bush gang blew it off because they didn’t want to hear […]
In case you missed it over the weekend, the WaPo reported that the CIA is responding to the Mary McCarthy leak on secret prisons by doing a little more digging — into partisan affiliations. The White House also has recently barraged the agency with questions about the political affiliations of some of its senior intelligence […]