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Even Overwhelming Majority Support Cannot Get Rep. Olver to Support Impeachment
Ralph Nader, DISSIDENT VOICE — The meeting at the Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts on July 5, 2007 was anything but routine. Seated before Cong. John Olver (D-MA) were twenty seasoned citizens from over a dozen municipalities in this First Congressional District which embraces the lovely Berkshire Hills. The subject — impeachment of George W….
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UN: Try or Release Enemy Combatants
The Associated Press A U.N. human rights expert is calling on the United States to prosecute or release suspects detained as “unlawful enemy combatants” and to move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Martin Scheinin, the U.N.’s independent investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism, said in a report released Monday…
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Firm Awarded Defense Contract After Hiring Ex-Bush Official
By Walter F. Roche Jr, Los Angeles Times A Defense Department medical services contract worth up to $790 million was awarded last month to a Wisconsin-based company three months after it hired a former Bush administration appointee who had supervised military health programs at the Pentagon for the last six years. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant…
