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"Home prices down 15.8% in past year, S&P says: Seven of 20 cities tally monthly price gains in May, Case-Shiller data show." ... "Prices in 10 cities fell 16.9% in the past year." ... "Prices thus are at the same levels as they were in the summer of 2004, which means four years of appreciation have been effectively wiped out. Prices are down 18.4% from peak levels seen two years ago." ... "Here's a list of the 20 cities in the Case-Shiller index with the annual decline through May: Las Vegas [Nevada], down 28.4%; Miami [Florida], down 28.3%; Phoenix [Arizona], down 26.5%; Los Angeles [California], down 24.5%; San Diego [California], down 23.2%; San Francisco [California], down 22.9%; Tampa [Florida], down 20.2%; Detroit [Michigan], down 17.4%; Washington [DC], down 15.4%; Minneapolis [Minnesota], down 14.8%; Chicago [Illinois], down 9.4%; Cleveland [Ohio], down 8%; Atlanta [Georgia], and New York [City, New York], both down 7.9%; Seattle [Washington], down 6.3%; Boston [Massachusetts], down 6.2%; Portland [Oregon], down 5.2%; Denver [Colorado], down 4.8%; Dallas [Texas], down 3.1%; and Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina], down 0.2%." -By Rex Nutting -MarketWatch 
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Michael
Elston
- 
Alberto
Gonzales - US
Attorneys - 
Law
- 
Politics
- Seattle
- Washington
- Phoenix
- Arizona
- San
Diego - California
- Little
Rock - 
Arkansas
- "Justice
Dept. Official To Quit: [Michael] Elston Had Role
in Prosecutor Firings." ... "Former U.S. attorney John McKay of Seattle
[Washington] told Congress that on Jan. 17 -- before McKay stepped down
-- he received a call from Elston that he "greatly resented." He said Elston
attempted to "buy my silence by promising that the attorney general [Alberto
Gonzales] would not demean me in his Senate testimony."" ... ""My handwritten
and dated notes of this call," McKay told Congress, "reflect that I believed
Mr. Elston's tone was sinister and that he was prepared to threaten me
further if he concluded I did not intend to continue to remain silent about
my dismissal."" ... "Paul K. Charlton, who was the U.S. attorney in Phoenix
[Airzona], said that he, too, received a call that day in which Elston
offered "a quid pro quo agreement: my silence in exchange for the attorney
general's." Another former prosecutor, Carol C. Lam of San Diego [California],
said Elston accused her of "leaking" word of her dismissal to the press
"and criticized me for talking to other dismissed U.S. attorneys."" ...
"Former U.S. attorney Bud Cummins of Little Rock [Arkansas] also recounted
a Feb. 20 conversation with Elston that Cummins said contained a "threatening
undercurrent" warning that Justice Department officials would retaliate
if he or his colleagues spoke to journalists or volunteered to testify
in Congress." -By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein
-WashingtonPost
Michael
Battle
- 
Randy
"Duke" Cunningham- Michael
Elston
- San
Diego - California
- 
US
Attorney - 
Government
- 
Money
- Law
- Politics
- "Letter
to Washington: The show goes on." ... "A few days
after learning last December that she was to submit her resignation effective
Jan. 31, [San Diego California US Attorney Carol] Lam asked Michael Battle,
then the head of the U.S. attorney executive office, for extra time to
ensure “an orderly transition – especially regarding pending investigations
and several significant cases that were set to begin trial in the next
few months,” Lam wrote in her answers [respongind to House Judiciary Committee
questions]." ... "At the time, Lam was investigating corruption cases stemming
from her successful prosecution of former [California Republican Representative]
Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the Rancho Santa Fe Republican who pleaded
guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion charges after admitting to taking
more than $2.4 million in bribes. Cunningham was sentenced to more than
eight years in federal prison. Besides Lam, four other prosecutors were
presiding over corruption investigations when they were dismissed." ...
"About a month passed when Lam got a call from Michael Elston, Gonzales'
former chief of staff, telling her that her request for extra time was
“not being received positively” and that she “should stop thinking in terms
of the cases in the office.”" ... "“He insisted that I had to depart in
a matter of weeks, not months, and that these instructions were 'coming
from the very highest level of the government,' ” Lam wrote." ... "Lam
submitted her resignation Jan. 16, effective Feb. 15." -By
Dana Wilkie -Copley
via -Union-Tribune
Cunningham
- 
Renzi
-
Gibbons
- 
Jerry
Lewis - 
Miers
- Sampson
- 
Griffin
- 
Rove
- Noteworthy
- Secret
- US
Attorneys - Law
- Money
- Politics
- Los
Angeles - California
- Arizona
- Nevada
- Arkansas
- "The
U.S. Attorney, the G.O.P. Congressman and the Timely Job Offer."
... "There is yet another United States attorney whose abrupt departure
from office is raising questions: Debra Wong Yang of Los Angeles [California]."
... "Carol Lam, the United States attorney in San Diego [California], was
fired after she put [California Republican Representative] Randy Cunningham,
known as Duke, in prison. Paul Charlton, in Arizona, was dismissed while
he was investigating [Arizona Republican Representative] Rick Renzi. Dan
Bogden, in Nevada, was fired while he was reportedly investigating [Republican]
Jim Gibbons, a congressman who was elected [Nevada] governor last year."
... "Ms. Yang was investigating [California Republican Representative]
Jerry Lewis, who was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee."
... "Ms. Yang says she left for personal reasons, but there is growing
evidence that the White House was intent on removing her. Kyle Sampson,
the Justice Department staff member in charge of the firings, told investigators
last month in still-secret testimony that Harriet Miers, the White House
counsel at the time, had asked him more than once about Ms. Yang. He testified,
according to Congressional sources, that as late as mid-September, Ms.
Miers wanted to know whether Ms. Yang could be made to resign. Mr. Sampson
reportedly recalled that Ms. Miers was focused on just two United States
attorneys: Ms. Yang and Bud Cummins, the Arkansas prosecutor who was later
fired to make room for Tim Griffin, a Republican political operative and
Karl Rove protégé." ... "Press reports say she [Ms. Yang]
got a $1.5 million signing bonus to become a partner in Gibson, Dunn &
Crutcher, a firm with strong Republican ties." ... "Gibson, Dunn was defending
Mr. Lewis in Ms. Yang’s investigation." -By Adam Cohen
-NYTimes
Gonzales
- Kyle
Sampson
- Miers
- US
Attorneys - Politics
- Michigan
- California
- Arkansas
- New
York - "Gonzales
Aide Suggested Replacements for Attorneys." ... "A
Justice Department e-mail released today shows that the former chief of
staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed replacement candidates
for seven United States attorneys nearly a year before those prosecutors
were fired, in contrast to testimony last month in which the aide said
that no successors were considered before the firings." ... "The e-mail
written by D. Kyle Sampson, who resigned last month as the top aide to
Mr. Gonzales, provides the first evidence that the Justice Department wanted
to appoint its own candidates, despite the insistence of Justice Department
officials in recent weeks that the eight prosecutors, with one exception,
were removed in December 2006 for performance reasons, without regard to
who might succeed them." ... "The Jan. 9, 2006, e-mail was sent by Mr.
Sampson to Harriet Miers, the former White House Counsel, and William Kelley,
another White House lawyer." ... "The United States Attorneys identified
for removal are four who were ultimately dismissed: Margaret Chiara in
Michigan, Kevin Ryan in San Francisco [California], Carol C. Lam in San
Diego [California] and H. E. Cummins III in Arkansas." ... "“If a decision
is made to remove and replace a limited number of U.S. Attorneys, then
the following might be considered for removal and possible replacement,”
Mr. Sampson’s e-mail said." ... "But Mr. Sampson testified under oath on
March 29 [2007] at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he
had no candidates in mind to replace any of the fired prosecutors." ...
"At one point in the hearing, Charles E. Schumer, a Democratic Senator
from New York, asked Mr. Sampson, “Did you or did you not have in mind
specific replacements for the dismissed U.S. Attorneys before they were
asked to resign on December 7th, 2006.”" ... "Mr. Sampson, who was testifying
under oath, replied, “I personally did not. On December 7th, I did not
have in mind any replacements for any of the seven who were asked to resign.”"
(1, 2)
-By David Johnston -NYTimes
Canada
- 
US
-
Syria
- Secret
- Torture
- 
Intelligence
- Religious
- 
Terrorism
- Politics
- "Canadian
was falsely accused, panel says: Muslim held by U.S.
was sent to Syria for interrogation." ... "Canadian intelligence officials
passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim
Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to
Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday." ... "The
report, released in Ottawa, was the result of a 2 1/2-year inquiry that
represented one of the first public investigations into mistakes made as
part of the United States' "extraordinary rendition" program, which has
secretly spirited suspects to foreign countries for interrogation by often
brutal methods." ... "The inquiry, which focused on the Canadian intelligence
services, found that agents who were under pressure to find terrorists
after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, falsely labeled an Ottawa computer
consultant, Maher Arar, as a dangerous radical. They asked U.S. authorities
to put him and his wife, a university economist, on the al-Qaeda "watchlist,"
without justification, the report said." ... "Arar was also listed as "an
Islamic extremist individual" who was in the Washington area on Sept. 11.
The report concluded that he had no involvement in Islamic extremism and
was on business in San Diego that day, said the head of the inquiry commission,
Ontario Justice Dennis O'Connor." (1, 2)
-WashingtonPost via -MSNBC
California
- 
Air
-Law
- 
Climate
- Politics
- LA
- "Calif
Legislature passes bill to cut greenhouse gases."
... "The California Assembly on Thursday approved, as expected, a bill
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state to 1990 levels by 2020."
... "The state Senate earlier in the day approved the measure, which was
forged by a compromise reached Wednesday between the legislature's Democratic
Party leadership and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger." ... "Only
one Republican assemblymember, Shirley Horton of San Diego, voted for the
measure, which passed 46-31. Not one Republican in the state Senate voted
for Assembly Bill 32, which was sponsored by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez,
D-Los Angeles." -By Mark Golden
-MarketWatch
Global
- Climate
- 
Science
- 
Earth
- 
Ecosystem
- 
History
- "Cold,
Hard Facts." ... "My research colleagues and I found
that from 1986 to 2000, one small, ice-free area of the Antarctic mainland
had actually cooled. Our report also analyzed temperatures for the mainland
in such a way as to remove the influence of the peninsula warming and found
that, from 1966 to 2000, more of the continent had cooled than had warmed.
Our summary statement pointed out how the cooling trend posed challenges
to models of Antarctic climate and ecosystem change." ... "Newspaper and
television reports focused on this part of the paper. And many news and
opinion writers linked our study with another bit of polar research published
that month, in Science, showing that part of Antarctica’s ice sheet had
been thickening — and erroneously concluded that the earth was not warming
at all. “Scientific findings run counter to theory of global warming,”
said a headline on an editorial in The San Diego Union-Tribune. One conservative
commentator wrote, “It’s ironic that two studies suggesting that a new
Ice Age may be under way may end the global warming debate.”" ... "In a
rebuttal in The Providence Journal, in Rhode Island, the lead author of
the Science paper and I explained that our studies offered no evidence
that the earth was cooling. But the misinterpretation had already become
legend, and in the four and half years since, it has only grown." ... "In
the meantime, I would like to remove my name from the list of scientists
who dispute global warming. I know my coauthors would as well." -By
Peter Doran ["Peter Doran is an associate professor of earth and environmental
sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago."]
-NYTimes
