The New Haven Register editorial board doesn’t go as far as the Danbury News-Times call for Gov. Rell to fire her embattled chief of staff Lisa Moody, but nonetheless rips Rell and calls for the legislature to close the loop hole that currently allows the governor’s CoS to fund raise for Rell politically while working […]

Kevin O’Connor, Connecticut’s US Attorney, is taking over as Chief of Staff for Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. O’Connor is the second CoS staff since Kyle Sampson resigned in March; Chuck Rosenberg of Virginia held the job on an interim basis for six weeks.
Kevin J. O’Connor, Connecticut’s top federal prosecutor, agreed Tuesday to become chief […]

Newt Gingrich is continuing to pitch his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president by injecting himself in ongoing political debates. Yesterday on Fox News Gingrich called for the removal of Alberto Gonzalez over his failures in connection to the US attorneys scandal.
“You know, the buck has to stop somewhere, and I’m assuming it’s […]

Via email, Julia reminds the Right’s Field that evidence strongly suggests that Rudy Giuliani’s business partner Bernard Kerik never completed a required background check after he was picked by Giuliani to be New York City’s police commissioner. Kerik is proving to be a major blight on Giuliani’s past, as heis facing federal indictments for tax […]

Back to back days with news about Bernard Kerik! Excelsior!
Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors have told Bernard B. Kerik, whose nomination as homeland security secretary in 2004 ended in scandal, that he is likely to be charged with several felonies, including tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wiretapping.
Kerik’s indictment could set the stage for a courtroom battle […]

There’s more news out today about skeletons that are likely to haunt Rudy Giuliani during his presidential campaign, though Bernard Kerik is the one most likely to be literally connected to a skeleton. The New York Times is reporting that Giuliani “remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik’s relationship with a […]

The Associated Press has one of the most comprehensive looks at how the lasting outrage at Rudy Giuliani within the firefighter and 9/11 victims communities in New York is going to remain an issue for him during the presidential campaign. Giuliani is effectively running for president on his reputation as “America’s Mayor” following the 9/11 […]

Yesterday the Senate nearly unanimously passed S.214, “Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007.” The vote was 94-2, with only Republicans Chuck Hagel and Kit Bond voting against it. The bill removes the authority of the Attorney General, granted by the Patriot Act, to appoint US attorneys without confirmation from the Senate.
I haven’t been […]

The nonpartisan government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission regarding Duncan Hunter’s Peace Through Strength PAC illegal expenditures in support of Hunter’s presidential campaign.
CREW says Hunter broke the law by promoting “his candidacy by running advertisements with money he both raised and […]

Geoffrey Stone, guest blogging chez ACS:
The Justice Department’s audit of the NSL program reveals, once again, the profound difference between government by executive decree and government by checks and balances. From 2003 to 2005, the FBI issued more than 140,000 NSLs. Although the FBI is required by law to report its use of this authority […]