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'Culture of Dishonesty': Dept of Veterans Affairs
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 12:31 pm | Jason Leopold
The economic meltdown that has dominated media coverage over the past several months has overshadowed a crisis at the Department of Veterans Affairs, an agency in dire need of new leadership, veterans groups and Democratic lawmakers say. More >>
Obama: 'New Mission in Iraq - Ending the War'
Sunday, 9 November 2008, 6:46 pm | Jason Leopold
President-elect Barack Obama, in one of the first policy statements of his transition, demanded that the Bush administration either submit the proposed U.S.-Iraq “status-of-forces agreement” to Congress or leave an opening for him to change it next year. More >>
Voting Machines Used in Disputed Race Failed Tests
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 2:30 pm | Jason Leopold
Electronic voting machines that a Michigan election official said last week incorrectly tabulated vote counts during testing in the state were used in Minnesota where the senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al ... More >>
DOJ Watchdogs Probing Leak of ACORN Investigation
Sunday, 2 November 2008, 7:10 pm | Jason Leopold
The Department of Justice’s internal watchdogs are investigating who told the Associated Press that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a grassroots group that has registered hundreds of thousands of new voters, is under federal investigation ... More >>
GOP Attacked ACORN Before 2004 Election
Saturday, 18 October 2008, 5:41 pm | Jason Leopold
In a replay of a tactic used to help secure President George W. Bush’s second term, Republicans – aided by investigative agencies of the federal government – are making a campaign issue out of voter-registration forms with fake names like “Mickey ... More >>
ACORN Long a Target of GOP Operatives
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 1:47 pm | Jason Leopold
For the past several weeks, Republican operatives have been stepping up their efforts in critical swing states claiming voter registration groups have been engaged in a massive voter fraud effort in an attempt to influence the outcome of November’s ... More >>
Concerns Over Voter Fraud Led to Iglesias’s Firing
Friday, 3 October 2008, 4:32 pm | Jason Leopold
President George W. Bush, Karl Rove, the former White House political adviser, both appear to have helped orchestrate the firing of former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias after receiving numerous complaints from Republican activists that Iglesias ... More >>
Alaskan Officials Allege Palin Cover-up
Monday, 29 September 2008, 1:10 pm | Jason Leopold
An attorney for Alaska’s legislative investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin says John McCain’s presidential campaign is seeking to derail the inquiry because its findings could “cause serious damage to the Republican ticket.” More >>
Rice Admits She Led W. House Talks About Torture
Monday, 29 September 2008, 12:35 am | Jason Leopold
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted for the first time that she led high-level discussions beginning in 2002 with other senior Bush administration officials about subjecting suspected al-Qaeda terrorists detained at military prisons to the ... More >>
DOJ to Release Awaited Report on Attorney Firings
Monday, 29 September 2008, 12:34 am | Jason Leopold
A long-awaited Justice Department report probing the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 is expected to be released Monday morning, according to David Iglesias, the former New Mexico federal prosecutor who was one of those caught up in the purge. More >>
Palin's 'Troopergate' Battle Rages
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 12:36 am | Jason Leopold
Alaska Sen. Hollis French recommended Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, Todd Palin, and two state officials, be held in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena involving a state sanctioned investigation into allegations the governor ... More >>
Palin Claims Right to See All State Files
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 3:33 pm | Jason Leopold
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is maneuvering to stop an investigation into an alleged abuse of power, in part, by claiming that she has an unlimited right to pry into the personnel records of all state employees, including the state trooper who divorced her sister. More >>
Palin Launched Probe Into Ex Brother-in Law
Friday, 12 September 2008, 6:32 pm | Jason Leopold
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin – collaborating with her husband Todd and several senior aides – conducted what amounted to a rogue investigation into suspicions that her ex-brother-in-law was faking a job-related injury as a state trooper, according to ... More >>
Kucinich Ramps Up Impeachment Efforts Against Bush
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 5:15 pm | Jason Leopold
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and groups supporting the impeachment of President George W. Bush will hold a press conference Wednesday announcing the results of a continuing grassroots campaign to gather signatures in support of Kucinich’s impeachment ... More >>
Palin's Office Scrubs Docs From Governor's Website
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 5:03 pm | Jason Leopold
On July 18, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made the unusual decision of posting two documents on her website, accompanied by a harshly worded statement, denying reports that her husband, Todd Palin, and officials in her office illegally accessed her ex-brother-in-law’s ... More >>
Palin's Image Tainted by History of Ethical Lapses
Friday, 5 September 2008, 12:59 am | Jason Leopold
When John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, his campaign and much of the U.S. news media depicted the Alaska governor as an ethics “reformer” whose meteoric political rise came from her confronting corruption ... More >>
McCain VP Pick Has History of Clashes
Monday, 1 September 2008, 2:26 pm | Jason Leopold
The political career of Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential pick, has been marked by conflicts, score-settling and her own claim that she faces “enemies – powerful enemies.” More >>
Anti-Obama Backer Broke Campaign Finance Law
Monday, 1 September 2008, 12:13 am | Jason Leopold
Harold Simmons, the billionaire Dallas investor has grown accustomed to using his vast wealth to influence the outcome of elections. For decades, Simmons has poured millions of dollars into the campaign coffers of mostly Republican lawmakers to get ... More >>
Excerpts: Obama's DNC Speech, 'The American Promise'
Friday, 29 August 2008, 12:38 am | Jason Leopold
“Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story – of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren’t well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever ... More >>
McCain's Ties to Neocon Hard Lines
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 3:23 pm | Jason Leopold
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 ... More >>
