The Washington Post's Peter Finn reports that Barack Obama will make it an early priority to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. But he doesn't know what to do with the 250 detainees.

One solution proposed by Human Rights Watch that Obama is receptive to ...

The New York Times' Charlie Savage reports that in the twilight of his presidency, George W. Bush just can't stop making constitutionally dubious signing statements. These orders, which effectively undermine parts of legislation the president signed into law, concern the defense authorization act and ...

The Washington Post's Dan Eggan argues that George W. Bush's daily warnings of economic doom and gloom if the bailout bill doesn't become law are falling on deaf ears. In fact, Bush's warnings have been ridiculed as they recall his hyperbolic-- and ...

The Washington Post's Christopher Lee reported yesterday that a federal district judge offered an injunction making the Bush administration's Office of Vice-President (that would be headed by Dick Cheney) turn over all work-related correspondence of the past eight years to the ...

As the Washington Post's Christopher Lee laid out this morning, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, along with a coterie of historians and archivists, have filed a lawsuit in federal court against the vice president himself. The lawsuit concerns whether Dick Cheney might ...

Shhh! The New York Times' Steven Lee Meyers reports that Vice President Dick Cheney flew to Georgia on Thursday and had a one-on-one talk with President Mikheil Saakashvili. They were likely talking about the $1 billion in aid Cheney promised the country, or the NATO membership the Vice President ...

The Wall Street Journal's Kris Maher has a good catch today -- the White House is considering whether to issue an executive order compelling government contractors to use secret ballot elections in deciding whether to unionize.

This may sound arcane, but it's a pretty ...

Federal court judge Patrick Bates yesterday denied the White House's request to hold his ruling that compels Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, to testify to Congress. Bates ruled in July that Miers could not use a Presidential assertion of executive privilege to ...

Overshadowing the other news of the past four days has been Russia's invasion of Georgia's Ossetian breakaway region. For the U.S. executive branch the central question is whether the military can and should assist its ally.

U.S. troops are already spread much too thin thanks to the wars in Afghanistan and ...

With five months left in the Bush administration, Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, and Josh Bolten, the White House Chief of Staff, appear to be leaving no stone unturned in resisting a Congressional subpoena.

Last week, a federal judge ruled that the President asserting executive privilege on behalf of ...