http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington News, analysis, color and photography from Cox Newspapers' Washington Bureau en-us jmalone@coxnews.com 2008-06-30T14:43:41-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/30/911_records_cit_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington Newly released emergency 911 records describe Rep. John Linder as suffering from “difficulty breathing” or “allergic reaction” May 15 after being helped outside a Capitol Hill bar and restaurant, although the Georgia congressman continued to assert that his problem was... 4953803@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-30T14:43:41-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/26/spymaster_drive.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington Former CIA director James Woolsey makes no secret about wanting to reduce the amount of U.S. petrodollars flowing to the Middle East: his devotion extends to the car he drives, a plug-in hybrid. “Electricity today is like driving on about... 4884503@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-26T13:49:59-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/24/mcclellan_mark.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington That didn’t take long. Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s book has been marked down 25 percent at a train-station book store near the Capitol in Washington,... 4829903@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-24T15:34:01-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/20/mcclellans_publ.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington In “Lamar Smith welcomes Scott McClellan to Capitol” (see below) Smith says Karl Weber, McClellan’s project editor for the book, once called President Bush a “clearly horrible human being.” Not so, says Whitney Peeling, director of publicity for PublicAffairs, McClellan’s... 4749603@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-20T11:40:25-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/20/aide_says_bush.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington Former White House spokesman Scott McCellan said Friday that President Bush “undermined our system of justice” when he commuted the prison sentence of a key aide convicted of lying to federal investigators. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, McClellan... 4749703@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-20T11:39:22-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/20/lamar_smith_wel.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington Not exactly how you’d expect one Texan to talk to another Texan, but here is Rep. Lamar Smith’s opening statement before he questioned former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan at a Capitol hearing today: “Welcome to the Judiciary Committee’s... 4747003@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-20T10:21:19-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/19/beijing_olympic.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington Less than two months before the start of the summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese government has installed 300,000 new surveillance cameras in subways, parks and other public places, a human rights activist said Thursday. The cameras have “vastly... 4733403@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-19T16:24:38-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/18/north_carolinas.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley told reporters on a conference call organized by the Obama camapign that the risks from drilling were too great and the benefits too small. “It’s just too much squeeze for the juice,” Easley said.... 4701103@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ North Carolina 2008-06-18T14:34:24-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/18/mlk_memorial_pl.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington The controversial statue planned for the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial grew into a full-scaled 28-foot model without winning the “normal” interim approvals, said Thomas Luebke, secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The federal panel, which... 4698003@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-18T14:04:57-05:00 http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/06/18/iraq_questions.html?cxntfid=blogs_window_on_washington Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan will likely face questions about the war in Iraq when he goes before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday. That’s the word among aides helping members prepare for the high-profile, election-year hearing. The hearing... 4693403@http://www.reflector.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/ 2008-06-18T11:19:08-05:00