AIG Chief Liddy To Step Down
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 23rd, 2009 4:38 am by HL
AIG Chief Liddy To Step Down
AIG CEO Ed Liddy, who was brought in by the government to try to stabilize the firm amid the financial crisis last fall, is going to step down. It’s unclear exactly why, and for how long the departure had been…
How Cheney Turned A Right-Wing Meme Mainstream
It looks like we’ve figured out what Dick Cheney meant when he said President Obama has “reserved unto himself” the right to order enhanced interrogation techniques. In February the Wall Street Journal reported (sub. req.) :…
House Rejects Effort to Probe Pelosi On CIA Claim
That GOP effort to get a congressional investigation into Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the CIA lied to her about torture? Looks like it didn’t get too far. The Associated Press reports that the House voted by 252-172 to block the…