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Survey Rebuts Rep. Peter King's Claims on Radicals and Mosques
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAs Rep. Peter King opened his controversial hearing into "radicalization in the American Muslim community" on Thursday morning, researchers were noting that King's claims about mosques in the United States being controlled by "radical imams" who are producing extremists are apparently untrue. King, a Long Island Republican under fire for once supporting Irish Republican Army terrorism but now pursuing Islamic extremism, has claimed that over 80 percent of American mosques are controlled by "radical imams" and that Muslims are "an enemy living amongst us" who are not helping authorities combat ...
Should Rep. Peter King Investigate the Catholic Church?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyRep. Peter King, the Long Island congressman who for years supported the Irish Republican Army as it waged a terror campaign to eject the British from Northern Ireland, says that track record has no bearing on his controversial decision to hold hearings this week on what he calls the "radicalization" of Islam in America. The two examples are different, he argues, and the main reason is that unlike radical Muslims, the I.R.A. never launched attacks in the United States. (That made sense, since Irish-Americans were sending crucial material support to the I.R.A.) "I understand why people who ...
Texas Rep. Joe Barton Apologizes to BP, White House Hits Back [VIDEO]
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyTensions were high as BP executives continued to testify on Capitol Hill today, but in a twist, the oil company responsible for the disastrous Gulf oil spill didn't immediately emerge as the main target of controversy. Instead, that role appears to have been ably filled, at least temporarily, by Texas Congressman Joe Barton (R-Texas) who made a statement apologizing to BP for the $20 billion victims-compensation escrow account conceived by the White House, which BP said yesterday it would pay. Barton began by characterizing the deal as a "tragedy" and the escrow as a "slush fund," before ...
Senate Committee Votes to Require Supreme Court on TV
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyA Senate committee has passed a bill requiring the U.S. Supreme Court to televise the formal arguments made before the court. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) sponsored the bill, which passed Thursday, 13 to 6. It would require the court to televise all open sessions unless a majority of the court agrees that televising a specific case would violate due process considerations. Specter, who was the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee until he switched parties last year, has long been a proponent of cameras in the court and made his case for opening up the proceedings from the Senate floor ...
FTC Plans to Study Journalism's Woes -- and That's a Problem
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyThe Federal Trade Commission is scheduling public workshops on the media -- two full days to examine the problems of journalism. Please permit me to be subtle: What a DUMB idea!!! This is the Federal Trade Commission we're talking about.The New York Times reports the sessions, scheduled for December, are designed to "play a facilitating and public education role in gathering together various disciplines and perspectives to talk about the crisis in mainstream journalism." ...
Sotomayor: Strict Constructionist and Budding Conservative?
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyMaybe it's time for a contrarian view. Is anybody else concerned about Sonia Sotomayor chanting that she simply follows the law? "It is very clear that I don't base my judgment on my personal experiences." Is she serious? ...
54 Ex-Attorneys General Support Siegelman
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyDon Siegelman, the former Alabama governor who is free from prison pending an appeal of his June 2006 bribery and conspiracy conviction, received the support of 54 former state attorneys general Friday when they filed a brief supporting his appeal of that conviction. Siegelman says Fox News pundit and former Bush brain and current McCain adviser Karl Rove pushed a politically motivated prosecution and that when the dust settles, this case will make Watergate look like child's play. Democratic Representative John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, gave Rove a week to testify ...
Senate Hears Testimony on Contractor Misdeeds
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyTalk Radio News reports that a Senate committee held a hearing yesterday (clip here) on contracting abuses in Iraq. Senator Byron Dorgan, who chairs the committee, wants to create a new Senate committee to "exercise oversight over contracting abuses related to reconstruction and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." A former KBR employee testified at the hearing about widespread instances of waste, overcharges and illegal activities by KBR managers and employees. The whistle blower also told of officers who withheld ice from troops that were going into the desert. The ice was instead given to ...
Tame Iraq Hearing for Petraeus, Crocker
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyU.S. Iraq Commander Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testified before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees today in the latest congressionally mandated update on progress in Iraq since the implementation of the troop surge strategy. The hearings were largely un-confrontational and the atmosphere on Capitol Hill was vastly different from September 2007, the last time the two men appeared before Congress. Petraeus told the lawmakers that progress in Iraq, both political and military, was, "significant but uneven;" and warned that a precipitous ...
Petraeus Testimony Preview
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a reprise of their highly anticipated and well-received Congressional testimony of last September, Iraq commander General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker will testify before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees today. This will be the second in a series of congressionally mandated updates on progress in Iraq as a result of the troop surge. The conditions on Capitol Hill should be a good deal more welcoming for the two this time, as it is now generally acknowledged that the surge has been successful at reducing the level of violence in Iraq. ...
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