Roll Call: FBI raids Rep. Doolittle’s (R-CA) home in Northern Va. More soon.
Backstory on the Doolittle investigation here.
Sounds like former staffer Kevin Ring may have sold Doolittle down the river.
Update: More here.
Bush and Harry Reid square off…
Here’s some behind-the-scenes color from the White House meeting today between the President and Congressional Dem leaders about Iraq.
Lost his senate seat, but not his legal troubles: ex-Sen. Burns (R-MT) near $300k and counting in Abramoff-related legal bills.
David Broder channels liberal bloggers, finally sees the light about the mainstream media.
Today’s Must Read: where you can expect senators to focus their questioning of Alberto Gonzales.
The Gonzales hearing is about to start. We’ll be posting running updates at TPMmuckraker.
McClatchy starts looking at the big picture on ‘vote fraud’ and the US Attorney Purge story …
For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.
The administration intensified its efforts last year as President Bush’s popularity and Republican support eroded heading into a midterm battle for control of Congress, which the Democrats won.
One of the questions I’ve most wanted an answer to recently is ‘What’s the Democrats’ endgame?’ in their confrontation with President Bush over the Iraq funding bill. The president, almost certainly, will veto the funding bill. So what happens then? How far are they willing to take this? That’s the question I asked Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in part two of our interview …
Senator Schumer is grilling Alberto Gonzales.
Since the beginning, he’s been out in front in asking questions and demanding answers of the DoJ. Many conservatives have attributed this to his obviously significant partisan zeal.
But Jim Sleeper traces Schumer’s sensitivity to the politicization of the DoJ back to the early 80s when he himself was the target of a dubious investigation by a Republican U.S. Attorney.
Sleeper’s is a history of compromising relationships and vindictive power struggles amidst a messy urban politics. It includes Schumer, a young deputy U.S. Attorney named Rudolph Giuliani, a powerful muckraking journalist named Jack Newfield, a young reporter named Joe Conason, and Sleeper himself.