Former Colin Powell Top Aide Lawrence Wilkerson Calls for Bush Impeachment

By Julian E. Barnes, The Los Angeles Times As the Bush administration deals with the fallout from the recent killings of civilians by private security firms in Iraq, some officials are asking whether the contractors could be considered unlawful combatants under international agreements. The question is an outgrowth of federal reviews of the shootings, in…

Sam Stein, Huffington Post Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance. The measure was part of a greater bill to reorganize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…

Red Cross Says Detainees Reported Abuse Tuesday March 20, 2007 11:01 PM By KATHERINE SHRADER – Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – Terror detainees once held in the CIA’s secret prisons were kept and questioned under highly abusive conditions, the International Committee of the Red Cross says in a confidential report based on interviews with…

therawstory by john byrne A secret US intelligence report which says the political and military situation in Afghanistan is “grim” will be withheld from the public until after the election, a new report says. Intelligence officials are finishing up the National Intelligence Estimate on Aghanistan, according to ABC’s Brian Ross, “but there are ‘no plans…