Monthly Archives: June 2008
Memo to Bob Woodward: Disclose your speaking fees.
Deborah Howell, the ombudsman at the Washington Post, weighed in this morning about Bob Woodward’s and David Brooder’s extracurricular activities as buckakers– speaking to corporate and political groups with an interest in their work, without disclosing details of the fees … Continue reading
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House hearing on DOJ contracting: One witness testifies; another takes the Fifth.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform this morning held a hearing on alleged favoritism in the awarding of grants by the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). While Robert Flores testified at length, his … Continue reading
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The Price of Political Favoritism and Cronyism: Lost Lives and Teenage Suicides
In the broader scheme of things, the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is a fairly obscure agency. By law its core missions are to decrease the disproportional numbers of minority children incarcerated, prevent teenage delinquency, … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC News, al regnery, alberto gonzales, Anna Schecter, Bill Bennett, brian ross, croynism, elayne bennett, favoritism, george bush, golf, Justice Department, murray waas, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, OJJDP, Paul rugman, pornography, RAINN, rape, robert flores, scott peterson, sexual assault, suicide prevention, teenage sexuality, troubled teens, World Golf Association
John McCain’s branding problems
This Bob Herbert column transcends politics and the war in Iraq, to touch on something more universal. Today’s must read. Curveball talks. And Paul West of the Baltimore Sun has the best analysis I have seen so far about John … Continue reading
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Tagged george bush, john mccain
Is Congress close to a deal on FISA?
Congressional Quarterly says that is the case. Of course we have been led to believe this before.
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Another disclosure about the Justice Department’s juvenile justice contracting controversy
My friend and colleague Anna Schecter has a new post at ABCNews.com about another questionable grant by the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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Bob Woodward, Buckraker
Ken Silverstein has done some breathtaking posts about Bob Woodward’s income from speaking to groups that have an interest in the issues Woodward writes about. Woodward says there is nothing wrong with any of this, because he gave the money … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Woodward, Ken Silverstein
New story out on ABCNews.com on favoritism in Justice Department’s grants program
I have a new story out this morning on ABCNews.com about the politicization of the awarding of grants in the Justice Department’s quarter of a billion dollars juvenile justice and delinquency prevention grants program. My story this morning focuses on … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Friends, Bill Bennett, elayne bennett, Justice Department, murray waas, OJJDP, sexual abstinence, teenage sexuality
Congressional Hearing on favoritism in the awarding of Justice Department contracts
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee has rescheduled its hearing on alleged favoritism by the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in awarding more than a quarter of a billion in grants each … Continue reading
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Attempted Intimidation of career Justice Department employees
So what happens when career Justice Department employees blow the whistle on their boss and talk to the media and Congress about favoritism and cronyism going on in their office? An internal Justice Department investigation commences. But the investigation … Continue reading
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