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 Siobhan Hughes looks at a Congressional report that says the Bush administration was for regulating greenhouse gases before they were against it. Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and fellow agency heads expressed support for curtailing ...

Has the missing White House email caper drawn to a close? The Washington Post’s Del Quentin Wilbur reports that the lawsuit filed by two D.C. watchdog groups against the White House has been thrown out. A U.S. district court judge ruled that the Freedom of Information Act does not ...

The House Judiciary Committee will bring the week to a close with Scott McClellan testifying this Friday about the Valerie Plame saga. In the former press secretary’s new book, What Happened, McClellan says the White House lied about blowing the covert CIA agent’s cover. McClellan also writes that the Bush ...

David Addington, the vice-president’s chief of staff, is often called the legal mind behind the Bush administration’s justification of expanded executive powers. Now Addington has been subpoenaed by a House judiciary subcommittee to speak about his role in legal decisions that led to the torture of detainees at ...

The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin reports that several White House offices, including Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, are involved in an effort to block rules to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales. 

They are only 300 such whales left and the death of one ...

The House Judiciary Committee should immediately subpoena David Addington, John Ashcroft, and John Yoo.  These citizens recently advised the Congress through legal counsel that they will not respond to Congress's invitation to testify about secrecy and torture in the Bush administration.  Thus the Vice President, through his intellectual Cerburus (Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Addington) is thumbing his nose at the Constitution, the separation of powers, and basic democratic values.  As long as he is allowed to do this, former officials such as Ashcroft, Yoo, Harriet Miers and others will avoid their own civic and constitutional responsibilities.  If the House does not act decisively, the repercussions for Congress's investigative powers may be fundamental and long-lasting.