:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 4.13.2007 ::
:: "Emailgate puts White House under siege" ::
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
The Independent UK
The White House is locked in a new battle with the Democrat-controlled Congress - this time over charges it is withholding, and may have destroyed, compromising emails that Congress is seeking as it investigates alleged wrongdoing by the Bush administration.
The new battle between the executive and legislative branches stems from the row over the eight federal prosecutors who were dismissed last November, in what Democrats say is a blatant example of political meddling in the judicial system by the White House.
The affair already threatens to bring down Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General, accused of turning a blind eye as Karl Rove - the influential political adviser to President George Bush - and other White House officials schemed with their opposite numbers at the Justice Department to have the prosecutors removed.
But the affair has gained a new dimension with evidence that Mr Rove and some of his colleagues may have deliberately used Republican party email accounts instead of the White House system to send messages relating to the attorneys and other controversial issues. These messages, Democrats suspect, may have been deleted - thus circumventing rules that White House and government emails must be preserved.
Read more here.
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