Posts tagged with 'hearing'

TPMtv: Stonewall Johnson

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MAY 27 2008 03:40 PM | PERMALINK

Stonewall Johnson

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Stonewall Johnson was born on January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He went on to become one of the most revered Confederate generals of the American Civil War. Wait, that's Stonewall Jackson. Stonewall Johnson was born on March 21, 1951 in Washington D. C. and went on to become one of the most controversial and obstinate Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose testimony before Congress has given him the inside track for this...
TPMtv: So Long, Lurita

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MAY 01 2008 12:32 PM | PERMALINK

So Long, Lurita

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: With the parade of stuttering, parsing and forgetting witnesses that the Bush administration has produced, it can be easy to take such performances for granted. But we'll never forget General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan. That's because when it came to testifying before Congress, Doan was something special.
TPMtv: "Progress" Report

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, APRIL 09 2008 03:32 PM | PERMALINK

"Progress" Report

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Seven months after the start of the "surge," General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday to update senators on the "fragile and reversible" progress in Iraq. We have the highlights.
TPMtv: TESTIFY!

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, NOVEMBER 22 2007 09:24 AM | PERMALINK

TESTIFY!

2007 has been a pretty big year for muck and scandal. And here at TPM we've brought you a lot of congressional testimony from some of the biggest bamboozlers, crooks and fibbers the Bush administration has to offer. So today in honor of Thanksgiving we're bringing you our ultimate mega-montage of all the lowest moments tidied up and whittled down to a compact five minutes of pure concentrated bamboozlement.
- TPMtv: Muck-O-Rama Contest Preview
TPMtv: Watch the Cookie Crumble

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, NOVEMBER 15 2007 01:07 PM | PERMALINK

Watch the Cookie Crumble

As in the courtroom, there aren't many real Perry Mason moments in congressional investigations. But Henry Waxman had one yesterday when he was trying to get to the bottom of why the State Department's chief private contractor watchdog (the Inspector General) was running interference for Blackwater and Dyncorp rather than the taxpayers. We bring you the key moments in today's episode of TPMtv.
- TPMmuckraker's Full Cookie Krongard Coverage