June 9, 2003: The President Gets Involved

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emptywheel
On June 8, 2003, George Stephanopolous and Condi Rice had the following exchange: S: But let me stop you right there, because many in the United States goverment knew before then that this... R: George, somebody, somebody down may have known. But I will tell you that when this issue was raised with the intelligence community--because we actually do go through the process of asking the intelligence community, Can you say this?

The Neverending Saga of Lurita Doan

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emptywheel
Lurita Doan's lawyer, Michael Nardotti, has responded to the OSC report condemning Doan's politicization of the GSA. It's one of those reports that read like a lawyer threw a bunch of stuff at the wall in the hopes that some of it will stick: he blames Henry Waxman for tainting OSC's witnesses, he shifts the focus away from Doan's description of employees as inferior toward one claiming bias, and he claims