Ending months of speculation, Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has chosen Sen. Joseph Biden of Deleware as his running mate, the Obama campaign announced on its website early Saturday morning. Obama will formally introduce Biden as his choice for vice president at a rally in Springfield, Ill. Saturday, two days before the start [...]
Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s National Security Project released a series of records from Navy and Army criminal investigations obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. These newly-obtained records provide snapshots to a war kept tightly under wraps, revealing not only the costs of war on Iraqi and Afghan civilians, but also [...]
As a result of the exposure by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) of endorsements by Gen. Petraeus and Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling on the cover of Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel — a book promoting Christianity and denigrating non-theists — it appears that these endorsements are going to be removed from [...]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has asked current and former White House aides and ex-CIA officials to respond to questions about an alleged scheme to create a bogus letter in late 2003 linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda. In sending the interview requests Wednesday, Conyers is following up on a disputed story in journalist Ron [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee continues to battle the White House over the release of documents defining the legal limits of torture. For more than five years, Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chairman of the committee, has been trying to obtain legal memorandum prepared for the White House by the Department’s of Justice’s Office of Legal [...]
A top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and a staunch opponent of environmental policy is reportedly set to receive a senior position at the Department of Energy, according to a report in The Washington Post. F. Chase Hutto III was instrumental in suppressing a report prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency that concluded greenhouse [...]
Executive management at the Allentown Morning Call recently laid off more than two dozen persons from its newsroom, most of them veteran reporters drawing higher salaries. Management plans to cut 35-40 positions, according to a letter sent by publisher Timothy Johnson. The cuts are about one-fourth of the news staff. The remaining reporters are being [...]
Environmental groups scored a major legal victory Tuesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down a Bush administration rule that stripped state governments of their power to implement strict pollutions standards. The decision is the latest setback for the Bush administration which sought to formulate an emissions policy that largely [...]
The Justice Department went back to federal court Monday to urge a judge to stay an order he issued last month that said current and former White House officials were not immune from congressional subpoenas. The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten last [...]
Randy Scheunemann, one of John McCain’s top foreign policy advisers, represents a key link in neoconservative strategy that seeks simultaneously to remove hostile regimes in the Middle East and to box in Russia through an expanded NATO that incorporates former Soviet bloc countries. Scheunemann has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for his past lobbying [...]
