National Guard vet Bush to be ‘recycled’ to Iraq?


WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. private security firm Blackwater’s deal to protect American diplomats in Baghdad will be extended for a year while the FBI investigates a 2007 incident in which the company’s guards are accused of killing 17 Iraqis, the State Department said on Friday. “I have requested and received approval to have task order…
afterdowningstreet.org Real Americans Don’t Torture, Bush and Cheney Do – And They Must Be Impeached! Submitted by Chip Impeachment Coalition of Dane County, Wisconsin and the Impeachforpeace.org of WI staged three days of street theatre on the UW-Madison Library Mall dramatizing the torture of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and other rendition sites operated around…
(The following e-mail went out from Democrats.com which is a reminder that the attorney firing scandal is one more impeachable offense to add to the laundry list of charges against the Bush Administration already confirmed. This crime slipped beneath the radar for the most part, yet is one that didn’t evade the watchful eyes of…
Military jury convicts bin Laden’s driver By MIKE MELIA Aug 6, 2008 - 11:34 AM (ET) Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All right reserved. © 2008 IAC Search & Media. All rights reserved. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) – A jury of six military officers at Guantanamo Bay reached a split verdict Wednesday in the…
By Dan Eggen, Washington Post No more than four Justice Department officials had access to details of the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program when the department deemed portions of it illegal, following a pattern of poor consultation that helped create a “legal mess,” a former Justice official told Congress yesterday. Jack L. Goldsmith, former head…
Harpers Magazine The Spitzer Sex Sting: A Few More Questions by Scott Horton It looks like the Bush Justice Department just bagged themselves another Democratic Governor. Here’s the New York Times on the story: Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who gained national prominence relentlessly pursuing Wall Street wrongdoing, has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to…