Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

 
The moment Lurita Doan walked into the "brown bag"  meeting on January 26, 2007 at the GSA headquarters, her career as a government servant was in jeopardy. The moment it became public that Scott Jennings, White House deputy director of political affairs, gave a Powerpoint presentation (warning: large file) on 2006 election polling data and [...]

On February 23, 2007 the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco unanimously denied Mohiuddin’s petition for review of the deportation order against him. Below is the Court’s decision:

Mohiuddin A.K.M. Ahmed petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (IJ) order denying [...]

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, grandson of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has written an account of the killing of his grandfather and most of his family by Mohiuddin Ahmed and his cohorts. Joy’s mother, Mujib’s eldest daughter, survived the massacre of August 15th, 1975 because she and her younger sister were in Germany at the time. The [...]

Once you have seen tanks on the streets, you are never the same.
I was born into genocide and I grew up a witness to terrorism. I am scarred by man’s inhumanity to man. Killers have laid their filthy hands on my head, smiling as they gave me life advice. I took a different advice [...]

[Via Think Progress]
Henry Waxman is requesting information on White House contracts with MZM:

As part of the Committee’s ongoing investigation into waste, fraud, and abuse in federal contracting, the Committee has requested information on a $140,000 contract awarded by the Executive Office of the President to MZM, Inc. in July 2002.
The contract with the White House [...]

Today the Washington Post reported that Lurita Doan, the GSA Administrator, will testify this coming Wednesday in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about recent reports of her involvement in the politicization of the GSA. The charges are serious and, if substantiated, she would be removed from her position in violation of the [...]

When Carol Lam, the US Attorney for the Southern District of California, was publicly humiliated and dismissed by the Bush Administration on December 7, 2006, she became the latest casualty in George W Bush’s "War on Terror". The "War on Terror" is multi-pronged. It consists of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war against [...]

We are beginning to see the first signs of reason returning to the American political discourse in the post-9/11 era. Leading the fight for reason over fear is Zbigniew Brzezinski. Today in the Washington Post, Mr. Brzezinski delivered a message that deserves the attention of all thinking Americans.
In an op-ed entitled "Terrorized by ‘War on [...]

Via The Heathlander:
John Bolton explains the Bush Administration’s Freedom Agenda:

A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah’s military [...]

What did the Attorney General know and when did he know it?
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