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Griffin to Rove: We're Thinking Of Calling Our Baby "Karl"
How big of a suckup is Tim Griffin, the Rove protege who the White House was trying to muscle into a U.S. attorney post after firing the previous occupant? In a January 2007 email, Griffin wrote to Rove:...
Email: Rich Lowry Offered To Help White House Spin Firings
Here's a fun nugget from the U.S. attorney documents (h/t reader B.M.): It looks like Rich Lowry of National Review offered the White House his services in doing some positive P.R. on behalf of Rove protege Tim Griffin, who the...
Rove Aide: "I Would Really Like To Move Forward With Getting Rid Of" Iglesias
Here are two quick juicy parts from the just-released documents on the U.S. attorney firings, about the decision to fire David Igleisas of New Mexico -- as flagged in a House Judiciary committee press release: • 2005 White House "Decision"...
House Judiciary Breaks Down 'Key Facts' In New White House Docs
Below is a press release from the House Judiciary Committee on new facts about DOJ politicization brought to light by interviews with Karl Rove and Harriet Miers along with 5,400 pages of White House and RNC e-mails....
Emails Show Rove's Role In U.S. Attorney Firings
Karl Rove did his second and final day of testimony before Congress about his role in the U.S. attorney firings today. And we're getting more confirmation that that role was more extensive than he's yet let on. The Washington Post...
Report: Before Congressional Run, Scarborough Represented Killer Of Abortion Doctor
Over the last week, MSNBC has led the cable-news charge in covering the George Tiller murder -- and the questions it's raised about how implicated the wider anti-abortion movement is in the violence. Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews...
Tiller Is Eighth Murdered In Attacks On Abortion Providers
The killing of George Tiller in Kansas Sunday was the latest act in three decades of violence aimed at abortion providers. Although the violence dates back to the years immediately following Roe v. Wade in 1973, the first murder occurred...
Rove Protege Griffin Mulling Senate Bid
Karl Rove may be relegated to Fox News appearances and hoping to avoid prosecution once President Bush leaves office -- but the political career of one of his proteges, Tim Griffin, may just be getting started. The Associated Press reports...
Leahy and Specter At Odds Over Holder Confirmation
Trouble in paradise? Pat Leahy and Arlen Specter, the ranking Democrat and Republican respectively on the Senate Judiciary committee, have had a relationship over the years that, on the whole, has been a model of bipartisan comity as they've passed...
CNN Leads Media Failure on ACORN Story
Another day, another effort by the McCain camp to seize the political advantage over the bogus issue of ACORN and voter fraud. This morning, the campaign trotted out former Missouri Republican senator John Danforth -- playing on his reputation for...
Report Shows White House Engineered U.S. Attorney Firings
Now that the dust has settled on the U.S. attorney firings report, released Monday morning by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, we thought it was worth taking some time to lay out what it tells us....
U.S. Attorney Firings Timeline
2001-02 The White House appoints all nine U.S. Attorneys. The dates of individual swearings-in are as follows: 10/11/01: Todd Graves (Missouri) 10/18/01: David Iglesias (New Mexico) 10/24/01: John McKay (Western Washington) 11/02/01: Margaret Chiara (Western Michigan) 11/02/01: Daniel Bogden (Nevada)...
Waas: DOJ Probe Has Expanded to the White House
Murray Waas confirmed today something we've suspected for a long time: that the Justice Department has widened the net in the Inspector General's U.S. attorneys firing probe to include allegations that senior White House officials made false statements to Congress....
You Just Can't Keep Tim Griffin Down
Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central reports on the return of former U.S. Attorney and Karl Rove aide Tim Griffin to oppo research. As I wrote on the main blog, TPM, especially TPMmuckraker, has a long history with Griffin. His...
Conyers Pushes Bill to Ban GOP Vote Suppression Tactic
Anticipating the 2008 election, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a bill to ban "vote caging," the term for a time-tested GOP vote suppression technique. To "cage" voters, operatives send out a mass mailing with "do not...
After Blackwater Controversy, State Dep't Gave Bonuses to Contracting Officials
According to internal State Department cables obtained by TPMmuckraker, the State Department has slated two Diplomatic Security officials who oversee private-security contractors guarding U.S. diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan for salary bonuses. The optional bonuses, called Senior Foreign Service Performance...
Dems Introduce Bill to Prevent Voter Suppression Tactic
A new bill introduced by Democrats in the Senate today would make Republican attempts to challenge voters' eligibility based on the time-tested technique of using returned mail illegal. The voter suppression technique, which has come to be known as "caging,"...
State Defends Immunity Deal for Blackwater Guards
Since news broke yesterday that the State Department had offered immunity deals to the Blackwater guards involved in the September 16th Nisour Square shooting, which left seventeen Iraqis dead, inquiries from Democrats have mounted, and the State Department has evidently...
State Dept. Immunized Blackwater Guards
Expect to hear a lot more about this. You might remember that the first official word from U.S. officials about the Nisour Square shootings was a preliminary investigation by the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (BDS) that relied primarily...
Top Security Official at State Resigns
Only 38 days after the Nisour Square shootings and a myriad of sub-scandals and related controversy, and someone at the State Department has finally lost his job. ABC News reports that Richard Griffin, the top diplomatic security official at Foggy...
