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  • October 2008

    • Palin Aides to Testify on Troopergate

      Anchorage Daily News  |  Oct 6, 08 10:26 AM CDT

      Palin Aides to Testify on Troopergate

      (Newser) - State employees who had argued that Alaska’s legislature lacked the power to call on them have agreed to testify in the so-called Troopergate probe investigating Sarah Palin’s motives in firing the state’s public-safety commissioner, the Anchorage Daily News reports. A state judge ruled last week against the seven, including Palin’s chief of staff, saying the legislature’s actions were within its power. More »

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      Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Troopergate  • subpoena  • testimony  • Walt Monegan  • firing

    • Todd Palin to Speak to Troopergate Investigator

      Associated Press  |  Oct 5, 08 4:57 AM CDT

      Todd Palin to Speak to Troopergate Investigator

      (AP) - Todd Palin plans to speak later this month with an investigator probing abuse-of-power allegations against his wife, his attorney tells the AP. He previously ignored a subpoena ordering him to testify in a parallel probe by the Alaska legislature into the Palins' role in the firing of a public safety commissioner who refused to ax a state trooper divorcing Sarah Palin's sister.  More »

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      Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Todd Palin  • Troopergate  • subpoena  • Walt Monegan

  • July 2008

    • Bush Aides Must Testify: Judge

      Washington Post  |  Jul 31, 08 12:36 PM CDT

      Bush Aides Must Testify: Judge

      (Newser) - Turning aside White House arguments that top aides are protected from subpoenas by executive privilege, a judge ruled today that Harriet Miers must testify before a congressional committee on the firings of nine federal prosecutors, the Washington Post reports. Miers and fellow aide Joshua Bolten can, however, invoke executive privilege in declining to respond to specific questions. More »

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      Congress  • US attorney firings  • executive privilege  • Harriet Miers  • subpoena  • Josh Bolten  • prosecutor

    • Lawmakers Make Much of Karl Rove's Empty Seat

      Washington Post  |  Jul 11, 08 6:27 AM CDT

      Lawmakers Make Much of Karl Rove's Empty Seat

      (Newser) - Karl Rove ignored a subpoena ordering him to appear before a House committee probing alleged abuses of power in the Justice Department yesterday—and the committee didn't let that get in their way. Lawmakers printed a name card for Rove, pointed a mike at an empty chair, fetched a cool glass of water for the absent Bush strategist, and disparaged his absence freely, reports Dana Millbank in the Washington Post. More »

  • May 2008
  • September 2007

    • NY Targets Facebook Predators

      ComputerWorld  |  Sep 25, 07 3:49 AM CDT

      NY Targets Facebook Predators

      (Newser) - The online social networking site Facebook is becoming a hangout for sexual predators hunting young victims, according to an undercover investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Investigators pretending to be teenagers on Facebook were repeatedly solicited by adult sexual predators, reports Computerworld . But when complaints were filed with Facebook, the company usually ignored them, probers found. More »

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      Facebook  • pornography  • Attorney General  • Andrew Cuomo  • subpoena  • sexual predators

  • August 2007
  • July 2007