Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Obama Praised, Pummeled on Gitmo and KSM

Susan Crabtree | April 4, 2011, 2:35PM

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

President Obama took a long-awaited drubbing on his broken campaign promise of closing the detainee prison facility at Guantanamo Bay after news broke Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder had reversed plans to try 9/11 conspirators in federal court in New York City and will instead have them stand trial before military commissions at the U.S. base in Cuba.

The administration's decision is a 180-degree about-face from earlier plans announced in November 2009.

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Heather Wilson

Wilson's Role In U.S. Attorneys Scandal Could Haunt Her Senate Bid

Susan Crabtree | March 7, 2011, 4:25PM

Former Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM)

Now that former Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) is throwing her hat into the ring for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), expect a nasty, bitter race and plenty of ghosts turning up from Wilson's decade-long Washington career.

Wilson, a former Air Force officer and director at the National Security Council, was a rising GOP star and a standout on defense and intelligence matters post-9/11. But her Washington career ended in 2008 when she lost a GOP Senate primary to Rep. Steve Pearce, who then lost the general election to Democrat Tom Udall.

In the lead up to that primary, Wilson suffered a series of public relations blows for her role in the U.S. attorneys' scandal, improperly politicized firings of U.S. prosecutors by the Bush administration, which Democrats spent months investigating in 2007 and 2008. A lot of information about Wilson's role wasn't ever really scrutinized to the extent it could have been because she lost her first Senate bid.

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House Judiciary Committee

House Judiciary Approves 'No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act'

Jillian Rayfield | March 3, 2011, 6:08PM

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TN)

The House Judiciary Committee Thursday approved by a vote of 23-14 a bill that prevents any federal funds from being used for abortions.

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George Stephanopoulos

Colbert: I'm Testifying Before Congress To 'Get That C-SPAN1 Bump For My Ratings' (VIDEO)

Jillian Rayfield | September 23, 2010, 12:41PM

Stephen Colbert appeared on Good Morning America today, and told host George Stephanopoulos that he's testifying before a House Judiciary Subcommittee tomorrow to "get that C-SPAN1 bump for my ratings."

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House Judiciary Committee

The Whole Truthiness? Stephen Colbert To Testify At House Subcommittee Hearing On Friday

Jillian Rayfield | September 22, 2010, 5:58PM

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert is scheduled to testify Friday morning at a House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "Protecting America's Harvest."

A press release from the United Farm Workers describes how Colbert will appear before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International law to testify on the group's "Take Our Jobs" campaign, which encourages "U.S. citizens and legal residents to replace hundreds of thousands of immigrant field laborers, most of whom are undocumented."

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