Groups Fight to Protect Fish, Wildlife, and Wilderness Areas From Last-Minute Bush Regs
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/01/06-2
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Bush makes last-minute appointments
CNN
01/06/09
President Bush made another round of last-minute appointments Tuesday, giving 45 aides, supporters and others a parting gift as he leaves office: presidential appointments to boards and councils, with terms lasting three to six years after he leaves office. The full list as released by the White House after the jump includes attorney general Michael Mukasey, deputy national security advisor Elliott Abrams, and Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/06/bush-makes-last-minute-appointments/
Bush’s final purge
In These Times
by Christopher Moraff
01/05/09
The Bush administration is reportedly using its final months in office to exact retribution on federal employees who have spoken out against agency policies during the past eight years. Since April, the administration has dismissed — or notified of pending dismissal — more than a dozen federal whistleblowers, according to Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, founder of the civil rights group No Fear Coalition and director of the National Whistleblowers Center. Some have come as recently as November. They include staffers at the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Education and Transportation. And, Coleman-Adebayo says, those are only the employees who are willing to go on record...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4121/bushs_final_purge
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elliott+Abrams
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chertoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adebayo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Moraff
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Bush makes last-minute appointments
CNN
01/06/09
President Bush made another round of last-minute appointments Tuesday, giving 45 aides, supporters and others a parting gift as he leaves office: presidential appointments to boards and councils, with terms lasting three to six years after he leaves office. The full list as released by the White House after the jump includes attorney general Michael Mukasey, deputy national security advisor Elliott Abrams, and Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/06/bush-makes-last-minute-appointments/
Bush’s final purge
In These Times
by Christopher Moraff
01/05/09
The Bush administration is reportedly using its final months in office to exact retribution on federal employees who have spoken out against agency policies during the past eight years. Since April, the administration has dismissed — or notified of pending dismissal — more than a dozen federal whistleblowers, according to Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, founder of the civil rights group No Fear Coalition and director of the National Whistleblowers Center. Some have come as recently as November. They include staffers at the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Education and Transportation. And, Coleman-Adebayo says, those are only the employees who are willing to go on record...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4121/bushs_final_purge
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mukasey
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Elliott+Abrams
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chertoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adebayo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Moraff
rudkla - 7. Jan, 09:40
