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• Holder Struggles to Defend 911 Trial Decisions

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 763
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) Attorney General Eric Holder surely knew he’d be facing a tough audience when he prepared to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. That may be why instead of delivering the written testimony he’d prepared , he focused his opening remarks on explaining his ...
  3 days ago

• Holder Says OPR Report Will Be Released by the End of the Month

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  Responding to a question from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who’s asked frequently when the Justice Department will finally release the repeatedly delayed report by the Office of Professional Responsibility on the conduct of lawyers at the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bush, Holder said that he ...
  4 days ago

• Agenda Emerges: Put Military NSA in Charge of Domestic Cybersecurity

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  In their questions to witnesses in a hearing this morning , members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security revealed a bipartisan interest in having the National Security Agency put in charge of domestic “cybersecurity” efforts. Republican Senator Jon Kyl asked witnesses to ...
  5 days ago

• DOJ, FBI, NSA, DHS Agree: Government Doesn’t Have Enough Cybersurveillance Power

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  Although he is apparently not on the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security , Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has just dropped by its hearing on cybersecurity to ask witnesses representing the Department of Justice, FBI, National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security if they are satisfied with ...
  5 days ago

• As Inhofe’s Climate Bill Boycott Continues, Kerry, Graham, Lieberman Try End-Around

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 764
  Colorless, odorless, invisible, deadly. GOP senators boycott Tuesdays climate bill markup. (photo via talkradionews) James Inhofe (R-OK) appeared briefly today at a climate bill markup in the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, simply to drop off a letter with a series of Republican demands on how to ...
  2 weeks ago

• VIDEO: ‘The Party of No’ is now the ‘Party of No Show.’

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 687
  By GottaLaff Sheldon Whitehouse is one senator who gets my attention in a good way. Hes smart, articulate, knowledgeable, and asks the right questions at hearings. This time he gave us an accurate and pointed quote regarding the childish Rushpublic boycott of the climate hearings: Inhofe’s boycott — and other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Former OLC Director Not Opposed to Criminal Investigation of OLC Lawyers

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  Former Acting Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin, who headed the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush after the departure of Jack Goldsmith, said this morning that “I personally am not opposed to criminal investigation of my conduct and others during the period in ...
  2 weeks ago

• GOP Makes Good on Boycott Threat

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — or half of it, more accurately — has begun its first day of markup of the landmark Kerry-Boxer climate legislation. And once again , it’s a pretty one-sided debate. Last week, Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) threatened to boycott the markup unless the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Protecting Americans from Drug Marketing Act – Who Will Protect Us from the Politicians

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 470
  Why do politicians want to punish an industry that is developing medications to cure disease?   You would think they would applaud those industries for their efforts… Well not anymore….   Each year as part of the rite of passage, the House of Representatives discuss a provision to take away the tax ...
  3 weeks ago

• You Don’t Think They’ll Just Give Up, Do You?

  
  Brave New Films blog — Authority: 127
  After today’s announcement from Harry Reid, adding a public option to the Senate health care bill, some might think that a great victory has been achieved. And it’s a significant accomplishment to this point. But we’re at the beginning of the end, not the end. And now that this public option, with a state ...
  3 weeks ago

• You Dont Think Theyll Just Give Up, Do You?

  
  D-Day — Authority: 113
  (Im a blogger fellow for Brave New Films and their Sick For Profit campaign) After todays announcement from Harry Reid, adding a public option to the Senate health care bill, some might think that a great victory has been achieved. And its a significant accomplishment to this point. But were at the beginning ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reining in Big Pharma: Taking Away the Marketing Tax Deduction

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 764
    (via Brooks Elliott) Karen Tumulty and Michael Scherer wrote a very depressing story about how the pharmaceutical industry got its way in the health care debate. While the public has focused on the insurance industry’s fight against reform, the drugmakers have actually spent more (about $600,000 a day), ...
  4 weeks ago

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