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Appeals panel blocks order forcing top Bush aides to help House inquiry in prosecutor firings
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ A federal appeals court on Monday rejected House Democrats' demands to force two of President Bush's top aides to cooperate with an investigation about the firings of nine federal prosecutors in 2006. Time will run out on this year's...Tags: Parliament, The White House, Lawyers, Court Administration, Laws
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09/13: Deaths in Central Florida
BREVARD TONY F. CAPOZZO, 69, Palm Bay, died Tuesday. Palm Bay Funeral Home. BARBARA COONEY, 68, Melbourne, died Wednesday. South Brevard Funeral Home, Melbourne. DANIEL BLISS DUNNING, 94, West Melbourne, died Friday. Davis-Seawinds Funeral Home,...Tags: Orlando, Tampa, Death and Dying, Lady Lake, Altamonte Springs
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FBI chief grilled on spy rules
Associated PressWASHINGTON — New rules for national security investigations will help protect Americans from terror attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers Tuesday, even if they single out people from the Middle East. Skeptical Democrats clashed with...Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, Terrorism, Parliament, Texas, Government
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Debate over raids widens
Tribune NewspapersWASHINGTON — A report Wednesday indicating a sharp decline in the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. fueled a widening debate over the Bush administration's policy of aggressive workplace raids. The raids led to the largest such enforcement...Tags: Luis V Gutierrez, Think Tanks, Laws, Texas, Illegal Immigrants
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Panel holds 'non-impeachment hearing'
WASHINGTON—Critics of President George W. Bush got the chance to air grievances against him Friday at a House Judiciary Committee "non-impeachment hearing" before a packed audience of political activists. Even Cindy Sheehan, the famous anti-war...Tags: Parliament, Political Candidates, Iraq War, Texas, Bob Barr
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Four arrested in protest of Karl Rove
The Swampby Katie Fretland Former Bush advisor Karl Rove was invited to speak at a GOP fundraiser in Des Moines, Iowa, but he did not get the warmest of welcomes from four residents who pledged to arrest him. Law enforcement officers......Tags: Republican Party, The White House, Values, Police Arrests, Wars and Interventions
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Bush un-impeachment bill gets hearing
The Swampby Katie Fretland and updated Critics of President George W. Bush got the chance to air grievances against him Friday at a House Judiciary Committee "non-impeachment hearing" before a packed audience of political activists. Even Cindy Sheehan, the...Tags: Parliament, Steve King, Political Candidates, Iraq War, Texas
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Send Rove to jail petition passes 100,000
The Swamp(Brave New Films used the video above to promote the petition) by Katie Fretland A petition to send former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove to jail over refusing a subpoena to testify before a House committee has......Tags: The White House, Values, Robert Greenwald, Texas, Government
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Bush Justice officials broke law: DOJ IG
The SwampMonica Goodling and D. Kyle Sampson, key aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, violated federal law and departmental policy by considering political affiliation and other improper factors in Justice Department hiring decisions, according to...Tags: Parliament, The White House, Lawyers, Laws, Texas
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Committee votes for Rove contempt
The Swampby Katie Fretland and updated The House Judiciary Committee this morning voted in favor of finding former Bush advisor Karl Rove in contempt of Congress for his refusal of a subpoena to testify before the panel. The committee voted along......Tags: Republican Party, Lawyers, The White House, Values, Political Candidates
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White House probed one book at a time
The Swampby Johanna Neuman Maybe this is why Texan Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, disdainfully refers to the committee's investigation into President Bush's policies as "the book-of-the-month club." Since George W. Bush...Tags: Parliament, The White House, Manhattan (New York City), Government, Upper House
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Former aide: Bush should tell all on CIA leak
A former White House spokesman told Congress on Friday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted him to say that Cheney's chief of staff wasn't involved in the leak of a CIA operative's identity, an assertion that turned out to be false....Tags: Parliament, The White House, Wars and Interventions, Texas, Government
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