Statement released by former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves: This would be humorous if we were not talking about the United States Department of Justice. First, you tell me that DOJ staffers were making secret hit lists and my name was on one of them. Then, you tell me that a staffer for Missouri’s senior Senator […]

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May 9th, 2007 By Sen. Kit Bond This past weekend I, along with Senators Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Snowe (R-Maine) and Congressman Issa (R-Calif.), traveled to Iraq. We visited Tikrit, Baghdad, Ramadi and Balad and had the opportunity to meet with the commanding officers in each location. While it is still too early to tell the […]

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By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer An aide to Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) urged the White House to replace the U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., months before Todd P. Graves’s name was included on a Justice Department list of federal prosecutors the Bush administration was thinking of pushing out of their jobs. […]

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By Mark Bliss ~ Southeast Missourian Diane L. Wilson ~ dlwilson@semissourian.com Cape Girardeau’s new $60 million federal courthouse won praise from U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson on Friday after she and other federal officials toured the nearly completed building.”This is a magnificent structure,” she said. “I think it is a great honor to have a […]

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Lazy St. Louis Post reporter Jo Mannies – who never misses an opportunity to do an easy story by publicizing any left wing fringe group seeking 15 minutes of fame – has on the Political Fix a scheduled 5pm demonstration today at the St. Louis offices of Sen. Kit Bond. The usual suspects (Service Union […]

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