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A Blueprint for Impeachment;:The Constitution Still in Crisis
by Cindy Sheehan, OpEdNews.com The Democratic leadership has made a mockery of our Constitution by excising “awkward” parts out of it. For example, by invoking “Title X” (Contempt of Congress) which is a harsher punishment against protesters that leads to harsher penalties, such as being banished from Capital Hill for a determined amount of time,…
Bush joins Cheney in declaring self exempt from his own executive order on secrecy
[Breaking News] TheRawStory “The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, President Bush’s office is exempt from a presidential order requiring government agencies that handle classified national security information to submit to oversight by an independent federal watchdog,” the Los Angeles Times will report Saturday, RAW STORY has learned. (Original Article)
Gonzales Didn’t Promote DOJ Official who Opposed Torture
A Firsthand Experience Before Decision on Torture By Scott Shane, New York Times The debate over torture here can get heated, as it did this month when a dispute over the legal status of waterboarding threatened to sink the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general. Still, it usually remains a matter of strictly…
