The wife of ailing U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is finally talking.
In an exclusive interview, Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th) walked Sneed through the dark days since her husband’s “collapse.” She also dispelled rumors her husband, who is being treated for depression at Mayo Clinic, attempted suicide or was receiving help for alcohol and drug addiction.
“No, no, none of that is true,” said Sandi Jackson, who has been at the helm of her husband’s health care since he collapsed at their home in Washington, D.C., on June 10.
NEW YORK — New York City's top cop is upset that the city's legal department isn't defending a police inspector who doused a group of women with pepper spray during the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Chief city lawyer Michael Cardozo says NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna violated agency rules when he used the spray on a group of demonstrators waiting on the sidewalk.
As a result, Bologna is paying for his own defense in a civil lawsuit filed by the women, and might have to pay damages out of his own pocket.
But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Friday that the city's stance could have a "chilling effect" on police officers.
He told reporters it might make some officers hesitate to "engage."
Bologna's lawyer says his client acted appropriately and within department guidelines. —Copyright 2012 Associated Press
Congress is finally standing up to President Barack Obama on targeted killing. Almost a year after three American citizens were killed in US drone strikes, legislators are pushing the administration to explain why it believes it's legal to kill American terror suspects overseas.
Congress is considering two measures that would compel the Obama administration to show members of Congress what Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) calls Obama's "license to kill": internal memos outlining the legal justification for killing Americans overseas without charge or trial. Legislators have been asking administration officials to release the documents for nearly a year, raising the issue multiple times in hearings and letters.
A former lobbyist convicted in the Jack Abramoff congressional lobbying scandal has found a new line of work while still on probation: becoming a spokesman and self-appointed expert on allegedly rampant illegal voting by Democrats, according to an excellent report by Ryan Reilly in Talking Points Memo.
The ex-lobbyist, Horace Cooper, has authored a 'paper' for the right-wing National Center for Public Policy Research that recites a litany of instances where Democrats allegedly impersonated voters or thousands of non-citizens were on voter rolls. Needless to say, Fox News has treated this report as serious scholarship.
At events across the country, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is trying to convince voters that small business owners in fact build the roads and bridges they use every day. Unfortunately, Romney's "We Did Build It" gatherings have hit some potholes, with many participants revealed to be the recipients of government contracts and subsidies and others unaware of the full context of President Obama's selectively edited remarks now under attack.
Private equity owes its success in no small part to that uniquely American provision of the corporate tax code. The New York Times recently helped explain why:
When I was preparing my article "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama" for publication, I had a conversation with a source from the intelligence agencies. A month before, he had spoken to me, on the record; now he was in a panic.
It wasn't that he had disclosed classified information; he hadn't. It was that, as he said, "everything had changed" in Washington, with the furor over the "leaks" that had resulted in the New York Times' two front-page stories on classified national-security programs, the first on targeted killing, the second on the Stuxnet computer virus.
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