morsels from The Note
[The Note isn’t anywhere near as entertaining as it used to be under
Mark Halperin, but every now and then there’s some good stuff - links
to sources at original]
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=3
Newsday’s Craig Gordon has the back story of why former mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, R-N.Y., left the Iraq Study Group last May: He missed a
pair of two-day meetings that conflicted with paid appearances and
was told he would have to either start showing up or quit. “By giving
up his seat on the panel, Giuliani has opened himself up to charges
that he chose private-sector paydays and politics over unpaid service
on a critical issue facing the nation,” Gordon writes.
It turns out all those presidential “signing statements” have meant
something very real: Federal officials have disregarded at least six
laws that President Bush challenged via signing statements, a
Government Accountability Office study found. “The report provides
the first evidence that the government may have acted on claims by
Bush that he can set aside laws under his executive powers,” reports
The Boston Globe’s Charlie Savage.
This would crash our servers: Karl Rove sent or received 140,000 e-
mails over five years from his Republican National Committee e-mail
address — more than half to or from an official “.gov” address –
despite rules requiring him and other White House aides to
communicate via official channels, a House-led investigation found.
Some 88 White House officials were supplied with RNC e-mail accounts,
and “potentially hundreds of thousands” of those e-mails have been
destroyed, according to Michael Abramowitz’s Washington Post write-up.