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This Bloch Party’s Over

Scott Bloch, director of the Office of Special Counsel, is now set to resign, effective Jan. 5. Bloch has drawn some unwanted attention to the federal agency that investigates whistleblower complaints from federal employees, including examples of partisan politicking in the bureaucracy. He hired “Geeks on Call” to scrub his computer files and was [...]

McCain Helped Keating Friend in ‘05

When the Latch School, an Arizona special education institution, asked Sen. John McCain in 2003 to help it secure a $288,000 grant from the Federal Communications Commission — after the school’s request was denied in 2002 — his office didn’t appear to do much.
In 2005, the school made another plea for help to McCain, and [...]

‘Entertainment Tonight’ is on the Palin Plane?

This weekend, the news was all Palin, all the time. Following Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s lackluster interviews with ABC’s Charlie Gibson, “Saturday Night Live” kicked off its new season with the return of Palin look-alike Tina Fey in a dead-on send-up of the GOP vice presidential nominee — which my colleague Ari Melber covers here.
On [...]