For Republican Haley Barbour, Party and Personal Goals Coincide
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 19th, 2009 4:34 am by HL
For Republican Haley Barbour, Party and Personal Goals Coincide
BILOXI, Miss., July 18 — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was Republican National Committee chairman the last time his party was at such a low, after the election of 1992. Two years later, Republicans captured control of Congress, and although Newt Gingrich, who became the new House speaker, got much…
Interviews Offer Look at Roles of CIA Contractors During Interrogations
In April 2002, as the terrorism suspect known as Abu Zubaida lay in a Bangkok hospital bed, top U.S. counterterrorism officials gathered at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., for a series of meetings on an urgent problem: how to get him to talk.
Liberalism Had Little Presence in Sotomayor Hearings
Early on the third day of last week’s confirmation hearings, one of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s leading liberals leaned forward in his leather chair toward Sonia Sotomayor to explain his hopes for the next member of the nation’s highest court.