You Got Served
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy may actually have had enough of White House contempt for Congressional oversight:
The Senate Judiciary Committee has served Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials in the White House and Justice Department with subpoenas over President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping programs.
“Over the past 18 months, this Committee has made [...]
10 Months
Another Abramoff sentencing, this time for the former number-two at Interior:
Steven Griles, who served as the No. 2 Interior Department official between 2001 and 2005, had hoped to serve his sentence at home working for a charity sponsored by Walt Disney Co. and several outdoor-equipment makers.
But Judge Ellen Segal [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
The Temptations: “Psychedelic Shack”
You Don’t Get to Know
Once again, corporate secrecy trumps the public’s right to know, in the matter of a contested Foridian Congressional race:
A Florida appeals court has upheld a lower court decision that denies requests for an independent source code audit of voting machines used by Florida’s 13th district, which suffered election irregularities in a highly controversial congressional [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.”
—Love’s Labour’s Lost, 4.1.136
