Republicans for Holder
I just got off the phone with Joe DiGenova, the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia who, along with his wife and fellow lawyer Victoria Toensing, signed a letter in support of Eric...
View ArticleQuestions About Geithner
From incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, reacting to reports that Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner did not pay some withholding taxes:The President-elect chose Tim Geithner to...
View ArticleGeithner's Problems
From the Wall Street Journal:Sen. Charles E. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is raising questions about a housekeeper who worked briefly for Treasury Secretary-nominee...
View ArticleGeithner's Taxes: The Obama Background Info
The Obama campaign has compiled information for reporters on the Geithner tax questions. Here's what they have released on the withholding tax issue:Before becoming President of the Federal Reserve...
View ArticleThe Main Question About Geithner's Taxes
I've gotten several notes from readers on the Geithner tax story. Here's the problem, as they see it. There's no doubt that the IMF exmployees' tax structure was a little complicated. But if the...
View ArticleLibby Hasn't Asked for a Pardon
‘Nobody talks about it, nobody says anything,” says one prominent supporter of Lewis Libby, the former Cheney chief of staff convicted of perjury and making false statements in the CIA-leak...
View ArticleWaiting for the Libby Pardon -- If It Comes
I have a new story up on the pardon countdown for Scooter Libby. Will it happen? In Libby circles, that's The Thing That Cannot Be Spoken. "Nobody talks about it, nobody says anything," one...
View ArticleThings Are Looking Up
In the last Gallup poll of his presidency, George W. Bush's job approval rating is 34 percent, with 61 percent disapproval. The 34 percent approval figure is the highest for Bush in a year. Among...
View ArticleBarack "JuicyCoutureNarcisoRodriguezBeyonce" Obama
The latest flash from the Obama inaugural team:Washington, D.C. - The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) is pleased to announce the Runway for Change Inaugural Collection, a series of high fashion...
View ArticleWho Knew About Geithner's Problem?
We're learning more about how the Senate Finance Committee learned about Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner's tax issues. Turns out all but one of the Republicans on the committee found out...
View ArticleGeithner Accepted IMF Reimbursement for Taxes He Didn't Pay
Although it has been dismissed by some observers as a “hiccup” in an otherwise smooth confirmation process, treasury secretary-designate Timothy Geithner’s failure to pay self-employment taxes during...
View ArticleGeithner Accepted IMF Reimbursement For Taxes He Didn't Pay
I have a new story up on Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner's tax issue. The news is that Geithner, like other International Monetary Fund employees, received an allowance from the IMF to...
View ArticleVince Foster, Fifteen Years Later
I was looking over a daily almanac and saw that Vincent Foster would have been 64 years old today. In the 1990s, I spent a lot of time covering his death, beginning with trip to Fort Marcy Park the...
View ArticleRe: Vince Foster
Jonah -- I didn't intend to rekindle the old Foster-suicide questions, although I've gotten a few emails about it after my post this morning. But I do agree that the Clintons did everything in their...
View ArticleMore Questions About Geithner
In their defense of Treasury Secretary–designate Timothy Geithner, members of the Obama transition team have said that his failure to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes during a 2001–03 stint at...
View ArticleMore Questions About Geithner
I have a new story on still more questions about Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner's tax problems. You know the defense, heard from the Obama team, that Geithner's failure to pay Social...
View Article"It's Even Cool to Wave the Stars and Stripes"
Imagine that. From the New York Times:WASHINGTON is suddenly hip again, infused with the heady double-barreled combination of a new crowd of idealistic young political worker bees, who actually...
View ArticleGeithner Can't Explain His Failure to Pay Taxes
What was he thinking? That is without doubt the question asked most often by nearly everyone looking into Treasury Secretary–designate Timothy Geithner’s failure to pay Social Security and Medicare...
View ArticleGeithner Can't Explain His Failure to Pay Taxes
I have a new story on what is, for some senators at least, the most frustrating thing about Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner's tax problem: Geithner can't explain why he did it.Members of...
View ArticleBreaking: No Libby Pardon
White House officials have just told me that there will be no more pardons coming out of the Bush White House. "We're done," I was told. That means there will no pardon of Lewis Libby.
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