http://white.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for white en Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2405420 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Saved By: panpot | View Details | Give Thanks Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2405420csstechniquesphotoshop tutorialsNone assignedcommercialssuperbowlcodingpatternprogrefactoringapigooglesocialgraphweb designtipssmashing magazineMicrosoftyahoosocial graphdata portabilityreferencewebdesigncookingrecipesfoodwhiteblackgray http://web2announcer.com/go/2046859 unknown@Netscape.com "If Congress increases VA funding above the President's request and does not offset this increase with spending reductions in other bills, the President will veto any of the other bills that exceed his request until Congress demonstrates a path to reach the President's topline of $933 billion." This is Bush politics at its dirtiest! Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:36:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2046859veteransdisabilitybenefitsmilitarymedicalCarewhitehousevetosNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2040497 unknown@Netscape.com The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the president may not declare civilians in this country to be "enemy combatants" and have the military hold them indefinitely. Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:48:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2040497bushterrorenemycombatantconstitutionwhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2037448 unknown@Netscape.com "the White Rose" was the name taken by a small group of university students in Munich, Germany, during World War II. Along with their professor, contributors, and volunteers, members of the White Rose, in a series of six leaflets, bravely denounced Nazism, the war, and their widespread acceptance by German society. Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:18:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2037448whiteroseWWIINazismNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2034166 unknown@Netscape.com A radio station in Chicago played The White Stripes new album without their permission. The copy of the album that was played on the radio was a bootleg version and now a version they received from the White Stripes or their record label. Lead singer, Jack White, personally called up the radio station and ripped on the studio and the DJ. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:35:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2034166MusicRadiowhitestripesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2029394 unknown@Netscape.com Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he said he was "deeply troubled" by what he called White House efforts to "manipulate the Department into its own political arm. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:31:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2029394PatrickLeahySenatejudiciarycommitteeU.S.attorneysbushadministrationwhitehousescandalpartisanPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2031125 unknown@Netscape.com Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he said he was "deeply troubled" by what he called White House efforts to "manipulate the Department into its own political arm. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:31:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2031125PatrickLeahySenatejudiciarycommitteeU.S.attorneysbushadministrationwhitehousescandalpartisanPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2029020 unknown@Netscape.com House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:33:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2029020JackAbramoffwhitehousebushadministrationscandalcorruptionLobbyistsLobbyingGOPNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2030908 unknown@Netscape.com House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:33:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2030908JackAbramoffwhitehousebushadministrationscandalcorruptionLobbyistsLobbyingGOPNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2030949 unknown@Netscape.com House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:33:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2030949JackAbramoffwhitehousebushadministrationscandalcorruptionLobbyistsLobbyingGOPNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2030985 unknown@Netscape.com House Democrats are expanding their investigation into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House and have contacted several Abramoff associates recently about testifying to Congress. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:33:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2030985JackAbramoffwhitehousebushadministrationscandalcorruptionLobbyistsLobbyingGOPNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2022306 unknown@Netscape.com In the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor logs, declaring them to be presidential records. The decision made the logs exempt from a law requiring their disclosure to whoever asks to see them. Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:57:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2022306bushcheneyPoliticswhitehousesecrecypresidentialrecordsACTillegalNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2012409 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush has declared that the 3.5% pay raise for the troops proposed by Democrats as being "unnecessary" but requested the legislature to make the President's tax cuts for the rich permanent, actions that have earned the administration the wrath of unions. Mon, 28 May 2007 07:15:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2012409bushadminwhitehousewashingtonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2009506 unknown@Netscape.com Congressional leaders have neglected to remind the nation what the Constitution says. They have allowed the president to reframe the Constitution, usurping their power for himself. Sat, 26 May 2007 03:46:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2009506congressbushwhitehousemonarchyDeciderinchiefNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2006686 unknown@Netscape.com Both Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his former chief of staff Kyle Sampson approved a plan to bypass the Senate and install Karl Rove-protege Tim Griffin as U.S. attorney in Arkansas. Thu, 24 May 2007 02:20:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2006686whitehouseusattorneyGonzalesbushsampsonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1993250 unknown@Netscape.com As the subpoenas mount and the administration continues to signal that it will stonewall, what happens when Congress, the irresistible force, meets the White House, the immovable object? Former general counsel to the House Charles Tiefer explains. Mon, 21 May 2007 22:51:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1993250congressconstitutionwhitehouseSubpoenasgovernmentbushscandalNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1990136 unknown@Netscape.com The term white trash dates back not to the 1950s but to the 1820s. It arises not in Mississippi or Alabama, but in and around Baltimore, Maryland Mon, 21 May 2007 18:56:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1990136whitetrashbaltimoremarylandNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1968573 unknown@Netscape.com As attorney general, John D. Ashcroft was the public face of an administration pushing the boundaries of the Constitution to hunt down terrorists, but behind the scenes, according to former aides and White House officials, he at times resisted what he saw as radical overreaching. Sun, 20 May 2007 09:33:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1968573johnAshcroftjusticeDepartmentbushadministrationwhitehousePoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1958130 unknown@Netscape.com It's worth noting that President Bush's threat to veto a 3.5 percent pay raise for U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan came just two days before Armed Forces Day (May 19), the "single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country." Sat, 19 May 2007 08:28:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1958130busharmedForcesdaymilitarypayraisewhitehouseserviceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1956878 unknown@Netscape.com It doesn't much matter whether President Bush was the one who phoned Attorney General Ashcroft's hospital room in 2004. It matters however, whether the president was willing to have his aides try to strong-arm him into overruling the DOJ's legal views. It matters whether the president, once that failed, was willing to proceed with a program. Sat, 19 May 2007 05:26:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1956878bushwhitehouseadministrationjusticeDepartmentjohnAshcroftnsaFBIspyingprivacyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1928013 unknown@Netscape.com Troops don't need bigger pay raises, White House budget officials said Wednesday in a policy statement laying out objections to the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill. They said the administration strongly opposes both the 3.5% raise for 2008 and the follow-on increases, calling extra pay increases "unnecessary". Thu, 17 May 2007 05:04:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1928013whitehousebushmilitarypayRaisescongressdefensebudgetNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1916511 unknown@Netscape.com Recent White House backing for the beleaguered World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, despite the findings of an internal report that said he had violated the Bank's ethics rules, is bringing the role of the U.S. in running the Bank in "undemocratic" ways under scrutiny, with rising calls for Washington to loosen its grip on the institution Wed, 16 May 2007 07:22:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1916511paulwolfowitzworldbankwhitehouseinvestigationsethicsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1900048 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush 's warrantless wiretapping program was so questionable that a top Justice Department official refused for a time to reauthorize it, sparking a battle with top White House officials at the bedside of an ailing attorney general, a Senate panel was told Tuesday. Tue, 15 May 2007 19:08:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1900048whitehousePushedAshcroftWiretapsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1885073 unknown@Netscape.com WASHINGTON - President Bush responded to a Supreme Court environmental ruling by settling on regulatory changes that don't need congressional approval, the White House said Monday. Mon, 14 May 2007 20:40:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1885073bushairpollutioncongresswhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1829110 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush issued a formal national security directive yesterday ordering agencies to prepare contingency plans for a surprise, "decapitating" attack on the federal government, and assigned responsibility for coordinating such plans to the White House. Thu, 10 May 2007 21:10:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1829110bushwhitehouseshadowgovernmentnationalSecurityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1808276 unknown@Netscape.com If the White House did nothing improper in the controversial firing of eight U.S. Attorneys last year, why would top officials in the Justice Department, perhaps including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, have tried to conceal its role in the dismissals? Wed, 09 May 2007 10:49:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1808276U.S.attorneysjusticeDepartmentwhitehouseAlbertoGonzalesbushadministrationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1802136 unknown@Netscape.com White House Press Secretary Tony Snow this morning blamed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for the shortages, saying he was "not aware of any prior complaints" by the governor about the equipment Tue, 08 May 2007 21:23:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1802136nationalguardkansasSebeliusresponsibilitywhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1737986 unknown@Netscape.com Public support for the Iraq war is low. Lawmakers are battling the White House over money to pay for the combat. Suicide bombings continue in Baghdad . Fri, 04 May 2007 18:03:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1737986bushadvisorLeavingwhitehousewarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1693452 unknown@Netscape.com TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - President George W., Bush plans on Tuesday to veto a war spending bill that imposes timelines for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, and will then explain his action in a statement at the White House, an administration official said. Tue, 01 May 2007 21:33:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1693452bushspendingbilliraqwhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1640956 unknown@Netscape.com A House committee chairman asked 27 federal departments and agencies yesterday to turn over information related to White House briefings about elections or political candidates, substantially widening the scope of a investigation into the administration's compliance with the law that restricts partisan political activity by government employees. Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:26:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1640956HenryWaxmanbushadministrationagenciesPoliticswhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1625397 unknown@Netscape.com White House Press Secretary Tony Snow revealed to CNN he plans to return to his post next week, a month after a cancerous growth was found on his liver. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:06:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1625397TonysnowbushpressSecretarywhitehousecancerNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1618569 unknown@Netscape.com Rudy Giuliani's charge that a Democratic President would "wave the white flag" in Iraq and leave the nation less secure against terrorists sparked a major war of words between the parties yesterday - to the absolute delight of the former mayor. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:33:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1618569GuiulianiDemocraticpresidentwaveThewhiteflagNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1625990 unknown@Netscape.com White House officials conducted 20 private briefings on Republican electoral prospects in the last midterm election for senior officials in at least 15 government agencies covered by federal restrictions on partisan political activity, a White House spokesman and other administration officials said yesterday. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:37:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1625990bushadministrationPoliticsBriefingswhitehousePartisonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1618892 unknown@Netscape.com The president is suggesting that a troop withdrawal would turn Iraq into a battleground between regional powers. Not so, says a senior administration official. Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:52:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1618892bushadministrationiraqPoliticsaidewhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1587647 unknown@Netscape.com the Office of Special Counsel is preparing to jump into one of the most sensitive and potentially explosive issues in Washington, launching a broad investigation into key elements of the White House political operations that for more than six years have been headed by chief strategist Karl Rove. Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1587647KarlRovewhitehousebushadministrationofficeofspecialcounselPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1550464 unknown@Netscape.com House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told colleagues yesterday that she was incredulous after President Bush pulled her aside at the end of a meeting Wednesday and told her he did not criticize her recent trip to Syria. [via reddit] Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:33:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1550464pelosisyriabushwhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1530224 unknown@Netscape.com White House insiders tell CNN that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hurt himself during testimony before a Senate committee Thursday on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. The sources told White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux that two senior level White House aides who heard the testimony described Gonzales as "going down in flames&quot Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:03:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1530224AlbertoGonzaleswhitehousetestimonyU.S.attorneysPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1495033 unknown@Netscape.com Two Secret Service officers were injured on Tuesday after a gun held by another Secret Service officer accidentally fired inside the White House gate, according to a spokesman, Darrin Blackford. Their injuries are non-life threatening, the spokesman said. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:42:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1495033secretserviceaccidentalshootingwhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1476648 unknown@Netscape.com In what could prove an embarrassing new setback for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the eve of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter to the White House to call for his resignation. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:31:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1476648AlbertoGonzalesbushadministrationwhitehouseConservativesGOPNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1456476 unknown@Netscape.com The White House said Saturday it is agreeing to the Senate Judiciary Committee's request for how to choose someone to help recover some lost e-mails involving official presidential business. Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:08:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1456476whitehouseemailsSenatejudiciarycommitteePoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1453731 unknown@Netscape.com After the White House berated Pelosi for visiting Syrian president Assad, it was revealed that Republican Congressmen were in Damascus at the same time just as eager to relay the same message as Pelosi. "It's obvious the White House is desperate to find some phony criticism of the speaker's trip, even though it was a bipartisan trip," sai Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:41:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1453731nancypelosisyriawhitehouseDickcheneyrepublicansNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1433078 unknown@Netscape.com Today, CREW issued a new report, WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and Violations of the PRA, and made the shocking new disclosure that the Bush White House has lost over five million e-mails in a two year period. The report also details the legal issues behind the growing controversy over the White House e-mail scandal. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:27:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1433078bushadministrationwhitehouseemailscrewPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1420408 unknown@Netscape.com Countless e-mails to and from many key White House staffers have been deleted due to a brazen violation of internal White House policy that was allowed to continue for more than 6 years. The leading culprit appears to be Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC-provided Blackberry and e-mail accounts for most of his electronic communication. Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:55:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1420408whitehousedeletedemailsKarlRovebushpresidentialrecordsacNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1418563 unknown@Netscape.com The White House says it has mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business. Democrats have been asking if White House officials are purposely using non-governmental accounts to get around a law requiring preservatio Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:05:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1418563bushwhitehouseemailaccountsgovernmentrecordsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1410053 unknown@Netscape.com The White House said today that it may have lost what could amount to thousands of messages sent through a private e-mail system used by political guru Karl Rove and at least 50 other top officials, an admission that stirred anger and dismay among congressional investigators. Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1410053whitehousekeyemailsKarlRove.federalprosecutorsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1408855 unknown@Netscape.com White people, you're privileged, and guilty, guilty, guilty of oppressing disadvantaged minorities. Denial only makes things worse. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:59:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1408855whiteguiltyofoppressingminoritiesdenialkidsmattRosenbergNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1368104 unknown@Netscape.com When Karl Rove and his top deputies arrived at the White House in 2001, the Republican National Committee provided them with laptop computers and other communication devices to be used alongside their government-issued equipment. Democrats say evidence suggests the RNC e-mail system violates federal record preservation and disclosure rules. Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:42:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1368104RNCLaptopsGOPwhitehousePoliticsbushadministrationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1352508 unknown@Netscape.com Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:35:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1352508bushwhitehousealanMulallyFordselfImmolationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1236668 unknown@Netscape.com The White House today lashed out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for daring to visit Syria in the coming days. Not only are the administration's attacks on Pelosi hypocritical, but the timing suggests they are a partisan hit. ThinkProgress has learned that a delegation of Republicans is currently in Syria. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:31:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1236668whitehousenancypelosiPartisonPoliticsbushNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1236669 unknown@Netscape.com The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today requested that former Special Assistant to the President Susan Ralston present a deposition on April 5 as part of the committee's ongoing investigation into the connection between the White House and lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:45:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1236669SusanRalstonJackAbramoffwhitehouseKarlRovePoliticsNews