Tom Engelhardt, The Nation
At any moment, somewhere in the now-Bush-administration destabilized “arc of instability,” with its six crisis areas, a seventh crisis could indeed rise, demand attention, and refuse to be ejected from the premises. There are many possible candidates.
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By John Bresnahan, The Politico President Bush has invoked executive privilege and is refusing to turn over to congressional investigators any White House documents related to the U.S. attorney firings. In a letter today to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), Solicitor General Paul Clement informed…
Congressman Denied Access To Post-Attack Continuity Plans By JEFF KOSSEFF – Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON — Constituents called Rep. Peter DeFazio’s office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security,…
The Capital Times — When U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin held a listening session in Fitchburg this week, the Madison Democrat got an earful from constituents asking her to sign on to various efforts to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney, particularly a proposal by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich that targets Cheney and that has…
By Rowan Scarborough, San Francisco Examiner The White House is resisting a move by both Republicans and Democrats to fully declassify a Senate report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Republicans say the public disclosure would help show that the CIA made honest mistakes in its 2002 assessment that Iraq owned stockpiles of WMDs, when…
catskillnews.com Hinchey catches flack, from the left Kingston – “I don’t care if you don’t have the votes”, said one of about 75 impeachment supporters, who had both barrels blazing, not at President Bush, or Dick Cheney, but at liberal Democrat Congressman Maurice Hinchey. Why? Because Hinchey has not actually introduced, or supported, a resolution…
By Christopher Kuttruff, t r u t h o u t The United States is, once again, expanding the size of its largest detention center in Iraq. According to an October 31 report by the military paper Stars and Stripes, US forces will be increasing the capacity of detainees at Camp Bucca from 20,000 to…
