Daily Archives: February 22, 2009

Senator Shelby Backtracks on Obama Citizenship Remarks

Alabama’s senior Republican Senator Richard Shelby is having to backtrack today on comments he made at a town hall meeting Saturday in Cullman, which may have been made in retaliation for recent reports alleging that White House counsel Graig Craig violated Shelby’s attorney-client confidentiality when he talked to North Alabama lawyer Jill Simpson about representing…

White House Counsel May Have Conflict in Rove Case

by Glynn Wilson President Barack Obama’s attorney, White House Counsel Greg Craig, may be asked to recuse himself from deciding the new administration’s policy on “executive privilege” as it relates to the Congressional investigation of Karl Rove, the former Bush political adviser who was involved in advising the Justice Department on political firings and prosecutions.…