Democratic Convention Host Lagging on Funds

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com The committee that will host the Democratic National Convention announced this week that it is $10 million short of the $40.6 million it promised to raise by mid-June. Organizers of the Denver 2008 host committee blame the sluggish economy, the city's limited corporate base and the distraction of the long Democratic primary fight, which Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won less than two weeks ago.

White House May Keep Documents in E-Mail Flap Private, Judge Rules

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has scheduled her first appearance with Sen. Barack Obama since the end of the Democratic nomination fight, a joint meeting with some of her top contributors next week at the Mayflower Hotel, officials from both camps confirmed yesterday. Clinton h as not appeared in public since endorsing her rival on June 7, going on vacation after that. But her finance director, Jonathan Mantz, has reportedly been working overtime to arrange the introduction of some of Clinton's fundraisers to Obama.

White House May Keep Documents in E-Mail Flap Private, Judge Rules

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com The White House does not have to make public internal documents examining the potential disappearance of e-mails sent during some of the Bush administration's biggest controversies, a U.S. district judge ruled yesterday. In a 39-page opinion, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said that the White House's Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), even though its top officials had complied with the public records law for more than two decades.

Staying in Iraq May Not Be an Option

clipped from news.aol.com The next President of the United States may not have the option of staying in Iraq because at the end of this year the U.N. mandated security agreement that legitimates the presence of coalition forces in Iraq will expire and if things keep going the way they're going, nothing will replace the current arrangement. Over the weekend, CNN's Michael Ware reported from Baghdad about the very real possibility that the Iraqi government will be dictating the terms by which American soldiers are allowed to operate in Iraq before the next president is inaugurated.