phone: 202 630 8439
|
The Week in Review
ending December 15
|
Chase that dog, President Bush!
Photo © Reuters. |
Missed last week's stories? Get a complete
listing.
Want In The Hoop's list of the week's Winners and Losers? Wait no more.
Norton goes on trial for contempt
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton wasn't there
Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb was only there
briefly.
But the two went on trial anyway to face five
charges of contempt for their handling of
the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust.
Testimony opened in federal court this week
as attorneys for 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries
sought to prove their case against the two officials by
going over several critical court reports and opinions
that have detailed numerous failings under the
Bush and Clinton administrations.
At the same time, the Department of Interior's
Internet shutdown continued when an agreement
that would have allowed the government to send
crucial payments to tribes and individual Indians
fell through.
Government attorneys tried to use the funds
as a bargaining chip to have U.S. District
Judge Royce Lamberth strike one of Norton's
contempt charges.
Get the Story:
Norton
contempt trial opens (12/10)
Norton attacks
court monitor (12/10)
Norton set for
contempt trial (12/10)
Editorial:
Appoint IIM receiver (12/10)
Floods more
important than Indians (12/10)
Contempt
trial continues (12/11)
Contested
reports focus of contempt trial (12/11)
The Trial:
Witnesses to Contempt (12/11)
Coverage of
Contempt Trial, Day 1 (12/11)
Griles in charge
of IT reform (12/11)
Editorial: Take
criminal steps on trust fund (12/11)
Confusion,
conflict detailed at Interior (12/12)
Lamberth pokes
fun at government (12/12)
Coverage of
Contempt Trial, Day 2 (12/12)
Editorial: Still
ripping off Indians (12/12)
Judge eager
for Norton testimony (12/13)
Editorial: Bad
faith, wasted dollars (12/13)
Interior
computer agreement dropped (12/14)
Interior works
the old fashioned way (12/14)
Norton begins consultation on BIA overhaul
Secretary Gale Norton wasn't in court
but she was
definitely in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
this week. She probably regretted the decision.
Dozens of tribal leaders and representatives
assailed her decision to strip the Bureau of
Indian Affairs of its trust duties and hand
them to another agency.
They asked her to drop the proposal immediately
and work with them on a new solution but
she only agreed to the formation of a task force
to identify alternatives.
Get the Story:
Indian panel
urging BITAM slow down (12/10)
NPR covers
BIA overhaul, trust fund (12/11)
Attorneys
barred from BITAM consultation (12/12)
Exclusive:
Trust reform assessment (12/12)
EDS trust
reform report online (12/12)
Indianz.Com Editorial: Norton must
end the Indian Trust sham (12/13)
Tribal
consultation begins on BITAM (12/13)
Norton set for
first consultation (12/13)
Tribes
continue assault on Norton plan (12/14)
Norton won't
scrap BIA overhaul (12/14)
more stories
There's still more to read in the recap
of the top stories.
|
|
|
|
Printer friendly version