“Federal investigators are hinting that a fresh wave of campaign-related theft and corruption investigations of Members of Congress are moving through the pipeline, signaling that indictments may be on the horizon.”
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has shown “relatively little interest” in investigating contracting abuses this year. Preferring to focus on “homeland security” issues instead, Lieberman responded, “You’ve got to set your own priorities.”
During last night’s CNBC Republican debate, moderator Chris Matthews asked Mitt Romney whether he would get congressional approval “to take military action against Iran.” Romney replied that he would let his lawyers figure it out: “You sit down with your attorneys and tell you what you have to do.”
For the first time, “a federal judge barred the Bush administration from sending a Guantanamo detainee to his home country, where he claims he would face torture.”
Responding to smears and intrusions into her family’s private life by conservatives, Bonnie Frost, whose 12-year old son Graeme recently delivered a radio address supporting SCHIP expansion, said, “We stood up in the first place because S-chip really helped our family and we wanted to help other families.”
At least 12 racial incidents have been reported across the country since the case of the “Jena Six.” Echoing the nooses hung on a tree by white students that raised tensions in Jena, “most of the dozen occurrences in the past two months involved a noose left anonymously at a school or workplace.” Yesterday, a noose was found on a professor’s door at Columbia University.
21: Number of countries, including the United States, who still belong to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. Forty-nine nations were originally part of the coalition.
“The opening of the mammoth new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has been delayed indefinitely while its Kuwaiti contractor fixes a punch list of problems.” The embassy “was set to open last month but U.S. lawmakers say shoddy work by the contractor and poor oversight by the State Department have delayed it.”
And finally: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has some new neighbors. Anti-Bush protesters have “engaged in decidedly non-neighborly behavior like hanging their clothes from the trees; moving in sofas, chairs and other ‘permanent living facilities’; and, oddly, building a large Buddha on the sidewalk in front of her home.” “You can just imagine my neighbors’ reactions to all of this,” she said.
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