Lubrigate: Interior Dept. Gaffe Led to Billions Lost “A top Interior Department official was told nearly three years ago about a legal blunder that allowed drilling companies to avoid billions of dollars in payments for oil and gas pumped from publicly owned waters, a report by the departmentâs chief independent investigator has found.” (The New York Times)Gonzales: We Want Judges who Drink the Kool-Aid Yesterday, Attorney General Alberton Gonzales delivered a speech on the judiciary and the war on terror to the American Enterprise Institute. Gonzales explained that, in nominating a federal judge, the Bush administration wants “to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected judiciary inferior to Congress or the president in making policy judgments.” He continued: “That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national-security interests of our country.” (AP)
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