Our long national nightmare is nearly over.

Rep. Steven King (R-Iowa)

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)

Prospects are so bad for Republicans in the Senate that Sen. Mitch McConnell, their embattled leader, has given them free reign to vote against the party and, certainly, their unpopular president, if it will help them save their seats in November.
All in all, it was as sad and [...]

Via BuzzFlash.com. On Tuesday, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced that he has scheduled a vote for July 16 on whether to charge Attorney General Michael Mukasey with contempt of Congress.
“[There] were no “agreements, conditions and understandings between the Office of Special Counselor the Federal Bureau of [...]

On Friday, just 10 days after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued subpoenas to the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) for notes from a June 2004 interview the FBI conducted with George Bush and Dick Cheney regarding their roles in the CIA leak scandal, the House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas for documents [...]

Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have subpoenaed notes of an FBI interview with George Bush and Dick Cheney in the Oval Office on June 24, 2004, about their role in the unmasking of the CIA’s ant-WMD program administered by Valerie Plame:
The subpoena follows a June 3 letter [...]

The latest revelation from Scott McClellan’s book proves what has long been suspected: Despite earlier statements professing ignorance about the conspiracy among his top officials, including Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, to betray a covert CIA program tracking the international black market for weapons of mass destruction, Bush knew about it all [...]

In a well-established pattern of the Bush presidency, the controversy over a missing 5 million to 10 million White House e-mails seems to be the result of either incompetence or a deliberate attempt to destroy potentially incriminating evidence. Sound familiar? You bet.
At the heart of the controversy is whether mixed in among those millions [...]

USA Today:
Lewis “Scooter” Libby is dropping the appeal of his criminal conviction in the CIA leak case, his lawyer tells the Associated Press.
“We remain firmly convinced of Mr. Libby’s innocence,” attorney Theodore Wells tells the wire service. “However, the realities were, that after five years of government service by Mr. Libby and several years of [...]

The White House is blocking efforts by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to present evidence he collected in the CIA Leak investigation to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to the committee’s chairman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif).
Prompted by Scott McClellan’s statement last month asserting that top White House officials, including George Bush and Dick [...]

In 1999, former Pres. George Bush famously said, “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”
John Gibson, the Fox News anchor, takes an opposite view. He says he wants to “give a medal” [...]