William Mercer, who infamously was simultaneously a senior adviser at the Justice Department and a U.S. attorney for Montana, is one of the few U.S. attorneys to make it through all eight years of the Bush DOJ. Mercer had to resign from his job at the Justice Department, and now is only the U.S. attorney for Montana. (LA Times)
US forces kill son of top Iraqi official US forces have killed the 17-year-old son of the governor of northern Iraq's Salahuddin province. In a raid on Sunday, the forces shot the boy and another of the governor’s relatives. Governor Hamad al-Qaisi's family have claimed the Americans stormed the family house in the town of Beiji, where the governor's son Hussam and his cousin were staying. They say the soldiers shot dead Hussam in a "barbaric" action that was without cause.
Guantanamo Military 'Trial' Begins Nearly seven years after President [sic] Bush declared an "extraordinary emergency" that empowered him to bring [alleged] terrorists before military judges, Osama bin Laden's former driver went on trial Monday in the first test of whether that system can dispense fair and impartial justice. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, accused of ferrying weapons for al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh], faces court proceedings unlike any the United States has seen in decades. They will unfold before a military tribunal -- the first since the end of World War II -- with a jury of uniformed officers and rules that give great deference to the prosecution. Evidence obtained from "cruel" and "inhuman" interrogation methods [torture] is admissible in certain circumstances, as is hearsay evidence.
It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid By Frank Rich Mr. McCain’s fiscal ineptitude has received so little scrutiny in some press quarters that his chief economic adviser, the former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, got a free pass until the moment he self-immolated on video by whining about "a nation of whiners." The McCain-Gramm bond, dating back 15 years, is more scandalous than Mr. Obama’s connection with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Mr. McCain has been so dependent on Mr. Gramm for economic policy that he sent him to newspaper editorial board meetings, no doubt to correct the candidate’s numbers much as Joe Lieberman cleans up after his confusions of Sunni and Shia... The term flip-flopping doesn’t do justice to Mr. McCain’s self-contradictory economic pronouncements because that implies there’s some rational, if hypocritical, logic at work.
Thousands with criminal records work unlicensed as loan originators More than half the mortgage professionals registered in Florida -- 120,563 -- entered the industry this decade without being licensed by the state, The Miami Herald found. Known as loan originators, they perform the same job as mortgage brokers but aren't bound by the same rules... In the past eight years [the Bush years], more people with criminal records jumped into the business as loan originators than as any other category of mortgage professionals.
US food groups plan hefty price rises US food companies are preparing another round of hefty price increases as soaring commodity costs force them to pass on rises to consumers. Sara Lee, maker of meat products such as Jimmy Dean sausages, said costs would compel it to push up prices on meat lines by up to a fifth later this year.
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