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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!An analysis of e-mail exchanges between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) office and the Pentagon shows that Pelosi aggressively abused her privilege as Speaker to travel on military aircraft, according to the conservative legal group Judicial Watch. The group obtained the e-mails through a Freedom of Information Act request. The correspondence shows that Pelosi made repeated requests for military aircraft, over and above what the military considered necessary, frequently cancelled arrangements at the last minute, and through her staff was abusive to Pentagon employees seeking to meet her ...
Judicial Watch, the conservative open government advocacy group, says it has obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act request from the office of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) which show that there was some contact between President-elect Obama and Blagojevich in the days before the governor was arrested on charges of attempting to auction Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. The documents, a December 3rd letter signed by Obama, and a letter from Obama transition team co-chairmen Valerie Jarrett and John Podesta, are in themselves not damning; but ...
From The New York Times comes word that Elton John's big Radio City Music Hall fundraising concert for Hillary Clinton may have violated campaign finance laws. You see, because Sir Elton is not a U.S. citizen, he is forbidden from donating to candidates running for office. The concert brought in an estimated $2.5 million for Clinton precisely because Elton's name was at the top of the bill. Elton did the gig as a favor to Clinton, and thus, argues Judicial Watch, has effectively made an "in-kind donation" to her campaign. An official complaint has been filed with the FEC.Here's a snippet from ...
The Justice Department, in a court filing Friday night, made a previously unheard of claim of privilege in a lawsuit seeking documents related to White House visits by disgraced Republican fundraiser Jack Abramoff. The claim was made in response to a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. Another lawsuit seeking Abramoff related documents was filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The Department was seeking to have the two lawsuits consolidated.In its filing, the Justice Department claimed that the Secret Service had identified a new category of White House records ...
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