From the Post. From the Times. White House officials acknowledged Friday that they had no specific evidence to indicate that the chamber had used money from foreign entities to finance political attack ads. “The president was not suggesting any illegality,” Bob Bauer, the White House counsel, said. Instead, he said Mr. Obama’s reference to the […]
Month: October 2010
Baucus and the whiff of Nixon
Allison Hayward examines a call by Sen. Baucus for the IRS to investigate political groups. No one today is willing to defend the abusive tactics of Nixon, Johnson or Roosevelt in investigating their political opponents through IRS manipulation. Perhaps we can we agree, then, to unite in outrage against their modern-day cohorts?
What’s next for FEC nominee
The Washington Independent reports. Today, the Center for Public Integrity got in touch with Obama’s lone nominee, labor lawyer John J. Sullivan, who quietly informed the Senate that he was withdrawing his name from consideration this August after more than 15 months of waiting to be confirmed: