Biden Rips Bush Administration

September 03, 2008 7:19 AM

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Looking to the future but with one eye on the past, Biden also promised that an Obama-Biden government would go through Bush administration data with "a fine-toothed comb" and pursue criminal charges if necessary.

"If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a ( Read more... )

From Times Online

July 27, 2008

Beleaguered lobbyist linked to Kazakh UN ‘passport’ scheme

Stephen Payne, the lobbyist who was caught in the White House “cash for access” scandal, has indicated that he helped to obtain a United Nations travel document for one of his clients.

In a covertly recorded video Payne appeared to confirm that he had been ( Read more... )

Krugman: I could see a little bit of the effects. I was never told to stop writing what I was writing. It was, however, made known to me that I was making management nervous. There were occasional, “Couldn’t you do more straight economics writing?” Pretty much the last time I heard that was in 2005, when I was sort of urged to lay off a bit. The ( Read more... )

Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side

By Scott Horton

In a series of gripping articles, Jane Mayer has chronicled the Bush Administration’s grim and furtive dealings with torture and has exposed both the individuals within the administration who “made it happen” (a group that starts with Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, ( Read more... )