Reply #42: There hasn't been a homicide in the entire area for years. [View All]

[stickdog]

Look at the guy's MOST RECENT articles:

Alito Memo In '84 Favored Immunity For Top Officials, December 23 -- ADAM LIPTAK and DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/politicsspecial1/24alito.html?ex=1137042000&en=1f4f072f4031c96f&ei=5070

The attorney general should be immune from lawsuits over illegal wiretaps, Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote in a 1984 memorandum as a government lawyer in the Reagan administration.

The memorandum, made public today by the National Archives, offered recommendations concerning a lawsuit against a former attorney general, John N. Mitchell, over a wiretap he had authorized in 1970 without a court's permission. The government had been investigating a plot to destroy underground utility tunnels in Washington and to kidnap Henry Kissinger, the national security adviser.

Fight In House For White House Files On Katrina, December 8 -- DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 403 WORDS -A new battle over Congressional access to White House files broke out Wednesday over the response to Hurricane Katrina. Mainly at issue is how President Bush and his chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., responded when they received the first news from Louisiana and Mississippi of dire conditions....

New Twist in Texas Districting Dispute, December 3 --- DAVID E. ROSENBAUM AND ERIC LICHTBLAU

DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 929 WORDS -The Justice Department acknowledged on Friday that top officials had overruled a determination by its civil rights staff in 2003 that a Congressional redistricting plan for Texas, advantageous to Republicans, would violate the voting rights law. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales defended approval of the plan, ...

Politics As Usual, And Then Some, November 20 -- DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

In the category of "the weekend's least surprising news," the Times' David Rosenbaum revealed that the current administration has a striking proclivity to pursue certain political goals even when they contradict some of the available facts.