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Watch the Rangel hearing , which just got underway, live. United States – Charles B. Rangel – United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct – Democratic – Ethics
CBS News reports today that the job offered to Shirley Sherrod by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack would carry a new title for Sherrod: deputy director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach. Sherrod told CBS that she’s still reading the official written job offer and has not made a decision about accepting it. The Office of Advocacy and Outreach was established in December to help small farms, new farmers and “socially disadvantaged” farmers. Before she was forced out over an edited video that purported to show her prejudice against white farmers…
The folks who brought you “Collateral Murder” (neutral arbiters of information, they insist) on Sunday released over 90,000 documents, many of them classified, revealing intimate details of the war in Afghanistan. The New York Times reports : A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents, released on the Internet by an organization called WikiLeaks, are a daily diary of an American-led force often starved for resources and …
The investigation of Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) by the House Ethics Committee has entered a new stage. The subcommittee doing the investigating has now referred charges against Rangel to a separate adjudicatory subcommittee which will rule on whether violations occurred. More soon … United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct – United States – Government – Committee – Legislative Branch
Robert Gibbs apologizes ‘on behalf of this entire administration’ to official forced to resign over a video clip that showed her making racial remarks, and says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is trying to reach Shirley Sherrod to apologize personally. | Watch the Full Video USDA Reconsiders Decision to Oust Official
The WSJ reports : The nation’s three dominant credit-ratings providers have made an urgent new request of their clients: Please don’t use our credit ratings. The odd plea is emerging as the first consequence of the financial overhaul that is to be signed into law by President Obama on Wednesday. And it already is creating havoc in the bond markets, parts…
Agriculture secretary stands by decision to demand Georgia official’s resignation over controversial YouTube clip, though she claims administration never gave her a chance to explain | Ousted Official Had Taken USDA to Court, Won
Col. Murray is running against the infamous Jim Moran in VA-08, and he took a moment to speak with us today. He’s won his primary, so he’s the official Republican candidate in this district. He also didn’t try to get in my face once during the interview when I asked him a question… something that Moran hadn’t mastered as of this April . Patrick’s
The Agriculture Department has a lengthy history with the official forced to resign Monday over a controversial YouTube clip — it turns out she and a group she helped found with her husband won millions last year in a discrimination suit settlement with the federal government.?
**Written by Doug Powers We interrupt this “Tea Partiers are so incredibly racially biased” broadcast for the following update : Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy — video that now has forced the official to resign. The video posted at BigGovernment that started it all is here if you haven’t seen/heard…
