Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hal Rogers Again Spares Legal Services Corporation; Controversial Program Must Be Completely Defunded

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Sun, 02/13/2011 - 23:07

LSC logoIn response to criticism that his first round of cuts did not go far enough, House Appropriations Committee Hal Rogers (R-KY) has now produced a continuing resolution with $100 billion in cuts. Amazingly, the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) again survived relatively intact.

Instead of a modest $75 million cut, Rogers has now increased the cut to a modest $85 million. Even the size of these cuts is illusory because they are off of President Obama's fiscal year 2011 budget figure of $435 million. When applied against the $420 million that LSC actually received in 2010, the latest cut is only $70 million.

Holder Cites ‘Duty’ to Prosecute CIA But He Let Magaziner Off

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 18:17

Holder/Obama photoAttorney General Eric Holder suggested on August 24 that he had no choice but to appoint an independent counsel to investigate CIA interrogation of terror suspects. He said:

As Attorney General, my duty is to examine the facts and to follow the law. In this case, given all of the information currently available, it is clear to me that this review is the only responsible course of action for me to take.

Too bad he didn’t do his “duty” when as a U.S. Attorney in 1995 a federal judge referred a case to him for investigation that was far more clear-cut than anything concerning the CIA.

ABC Jettisons Journalistic Ethics to Flack for Obama Health Care

Submitted by Peter Flaherty on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 11:01

ABC News logoFrom Drudge today:

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda: ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, excluding opposing voices on the debate.

Hillary Holds Event at Corrupt DC37

Submitted by Michael Nelson on Mon, 09/27/1999 - 00:00

In what the N.Y. Times called her "strongest confirmation yet," Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sep. 22 that she would almost certainly run for the U.S. Senate in N.Y. next year, but that she wants voters to get to know her better before she declares her candidacy.

The outrage, however, is where Clinton chose to hold her news conference -- the headquarters of America's most corrupt local union, Am. Fed'n of State, County & Municipal Employees' Dist. Council 37. This corrupt Manhattan union has suffered a startling 27, yes 27, indictments (including 11 guilty pleas) in the last 10 months. And the Manhattan Dist. Atty. has indicated there are more to come. The union corruption ranges from multi-million dollar embezzlement of union funds to vote fraud. [N.Y. Times 9/23/99]

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