(CBS/AP) Pressure mounted on the White House Thursday to fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for the abrupt dismissal of U.S. attorneys. More Republicans called for his ouster, and one Republican strategist close to the White House told CBS News that Gonzales is “finished.”
Seattlest ACLU Not Liberal Enough for Seattle Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, spoke last night at Town Hall to publicize his new book In Defense of Our America. Notwithstanding the scheduling genius that placed Romero opposite mega-bestselling author Khaled Husseini (The Kite Runner) the lower auditorium was full of citizens waiting to…
As you may know, Dane County became the second county in the nation to call for impeachment on a 20-to-3 vote with 10 county board supervisors walking out of the meeting. Above you should be able to see the YouTube video Luciano made of the August 16th mock funeral march, press conference and rally conducted…
Nick Juliano, Raw Story House Democrats succeeded Thursday in passing a foreign surveillance law update that would restore judicial oversight to foreign intelligence gathering efforts aimed at Americans and would not grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that facilitated the warrantless surveillance of Americans. On a 224-192 vote, largely along party lines, the House adopted…
By vtfinest on DailyKos — Wow. Just as we expected, this teach-in delivered! For those of you on the fence re: investigations on impeachment, watch the following YouTubes, ESPECIALLY John Nichols of The Nation. According to Paul Heintz of the Brattleboro Reformer “Though billed as a “teach in” and held at Dartmouth College, impressionable students…
State Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin, D-Windham, said Tuesday that if the resolution calling for President Bush’s impeachment was in his chambers that it would move faster than the current bill languishing in the Vermont House … He added that if the measure did pass the Vermont House, where it has been tied up…
By William Fisher, t r u t h o u t Amid claims of executive privilege by President Bush in the firing of US attorneys, a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties groups has published a new report charging that the administration’s stonewalling is simply part of a six-year pattern of unprecedented government secrecy. The report…
