GOPers, Worried About Torture Prosecutions, Delay Holder Vote
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 22nd, 2009 5:39 am by HL
GOPers, Worried About Torture Prosecutions, Delay Holder Vote
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee are delaying for up to a week a vote on Eric Holder’s nomination to be Attorney General, with some saying they want more time to consider his record on torture. John Cornyn, Republican of…
DOD Pundit Report Finds No Wrongdoing
The DOD’s just-released report on its TV pundit hiring program finds that the department did not violate prohibitions on using public finds for propaganda by ceding the networks with retired military analysts (RMAs). Here’s the key passage: The Comptroller General…
Fired US Attorney To Prosecute Gitmo Cases
David Iglesias — the former US Attorney who was fired in 2006 for failing to prosecute politically motivated cases as aggressively as the Bush administration and its allies wanted — has a new job. Iglesias, a member of the US…