House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI) asks Bush to waive executive privilege for aides to tell Congress all about the Scooter Libby commutation. I wonder what the odds are in Vegas on the response.
We’d like your input.
On Thursday, TPM reporter/blogger Spencer Ackerman is going to be sitting down for an interview with Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the United States.
We’ll be bringing you the interview next week on TPMtv.
With all that’s happened over the last six years, we’ve got no end of questions we want to ask. But we’d like your input too.
Let us know what question you’d like Spencer to ask the ambassador.
Get us your questions by the end of the day on Wednesday, send them to the comments email linked up on the upper right hand of the site and include the subject title “Afghan Ambassador.”
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) says the real scandal is that investigators could “make something illegal” out of his activities.
And fittingly enough, Stevens hosted his big salmon tournament this weekend, where lobbyists and CEOs pay $4,000 or more a head to hook a salmon or a lawmaker.
The cost of our wars — human and otherwise — continues to mount.
A new report finds that the price tag for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan has now jumped to an astounding $12 billion per month.
Late Update: Pelosi blasts Bush for jump in war cost, reiterates her demand that GOPers distancing themselves from Bush actually vote for legislation that would bring about withdrawal from Iraq.
GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell concedes to his constituents that public opinion on Iraq matters — sort of, anyway.
Scooter Libby’s lawyers agree to president’s sentence of probation.
All your subpoena questions answered! Can the president stop his former aides from testifying before Congress? Those and other popular reader queries put to rest.
Cheney’s unpopularity heads for Dan Quayle territory as his favorability rating sinks to 13 percent, an all-time low in NYT polling. That and other political news of the day in today’s Election Central Happy Hour Roundup.