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...June 18, Democrat Henry Waxman pulled back the veil on what she's been saying by releasing a 90-page deposition his staff conducted with her on May 10. The documents show Ralston and her lawyer playing a coy game, offering up unsolicited information on Rove's use of prewar Iraq intelligence, his conversations with Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame case and political briefings by the White House to agencies--but saying she can only give the committee a full look at everything if it will give her immunity from prosecution, should she become a target of an investigation...
...Chertoff has practice tuning out political pressure. Early in his career, he left a lucrative job at a white-shoe law firm to put away Mob bosses as a first assistant U.S. Attorney in New York. In 2006 the DHS Secretary weathered a call for his resignation from Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, then the Senate minority leader, because Las Vegas had been denied security dollars...
...Iraq - and I don't know where he is on that." A Quinnipiac poll puts him a distant third in a three-way race against Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani in New York. "I know he won't want to be a spoiler," says former Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat who has endorsed Clinton in her primary - but has reserved the right to endorse Bloomberg in a general election...
...Orleans Police Department Deputy Superintendent Anthony Cannatella was addressing Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat. Speaking at a hearing on rising crime in post-Katrina New Orleans, Cannatella, a 40-year NOPD veteran, went on to relate a story about officers at the city's 5th District police station who had to take a collection in order to pay for the cleaning of Port-o-Potties located outside their trailers. "I didn't want to go there," Cannatella said, apologizing for the somewhat scatological anecdote...
...Senator Mary Landrieu, a Lousiana Democrat, sounded a particularly frustrated note at the conditions facing officers in her state's signature city as she called for increased federal assistance to New Orleans. And while Congress recently appropriated over $50 million towards combating crime in Mississippi and Louisiana, Landrieu nonetheless criticized the Administration for overlooking the Crescent City's police force and echoed Sen. Leahy's earlier shot, "While the Administration has written a blank check for the war in Iraq, it cannot seem to find the necessary support for those who need it in New Orleans...