Saturday, January 07, 2006

DeLay's U.S. Family Network.

* "The Texas prosecutor who secured an indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) on money-laundering charges broadened the scope of his inquiry into election spending yesterday, demanding documents related to funds that passed through a nonprofit organization, the U.S. Family Network." (link)

* ignatious: "Even people who describe themselves as friends of Addington believe that he has damaged President Bush politically by pressing anti-terrorism policies to the legal breaking point. And for many Republicans who bear scars from Addington, his story raises the ultimate question about the Bush White House: Who's in charge here?" (link)

* yesterday i commented on the amazing fact that Blinky effectively over-rode the mccain amendment before the ink was dry, and the absolute executive power that they are granting themselves. glenn greenwald is equally horrified: "What we have in our Federal Government are not individual acts of law-breaking or isolated scandals of illegality, but instead, a culture and an ideology of lawlessness." he has more.

* "U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called for the resignation of Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday" (link)

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