Weekly Round Up – Week Ending August 26, 2007
This is a news round up of brief news items from the week ending on August 26, 2007.
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Some Leaks Are More Important Than Others
Less than a week after a Washington Post story about the existence of the CIA’s secret prisons, Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) have called for an investigation into the leak of this information. “Such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences.”
Read moreAlito Faces Questions from the Senate
This guy fits right in with the current crop of Republicans. During his 1990 nomination as an appeals court judge, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito promised to recuse himself, to avoid potential conflicts of interest, in cases “involving Vanguard, in which he owned mutual fund shares; Smith Barney, his brokerage firm; First Federal Savings & Loan of Rochester, N.Y., which held his home mortgage; and his sister’s law firm.”
Read moreScreaming Profits for Big Oil
While you and I are cringing with every stop at a filling station, the big oil companies are raking in the big bucks.
Read moreWhite House May Have Torpedoed Abramoff Corruption Probe
In November 2002, the U.S. attorney in Guam, Frederick A. Black, notified Justice Department officials that he was opening an investigation into Jack Abramoff’s lobbying activities with Guam judges. Days later, Black was demoted and barred from pursuing public corruption cases, ending his investigation.
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