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


Impeachment Call Congress Day! When Congress returns to Washington on 1/15, Congressman Robert Wexler plans to present his fellow members of the House Judiciary Committee with the list of signatures on his petition (over 180,000) at http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com and a request to join him in signing a letter to Chairman John Conyers asking for Cheney impeachment…
The Independent Return to Fallujah Three years after the devastating US assault, our correspondent enters besieged Iraqi city left without clean water, electricity and medicine By Patrick Cockburn Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and…
The Huffington Post William E. Jackson Jr. The Vices of Cheney: Where Impeachment Must Begin […] Thus, as a senior Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee recently argued to me, “we are holding what otherwise would be impeachment hearings under the heading of oversight” and publicly “embarrassing” the Bush-Cheney White House. He went on to…
U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan By ERIC SCHMITT and TIM GOLDEN May 17, 2008 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the…
by Rob Kall of OpEdNews – January 27, 2007 John Conyers, chair of the congressional Judiciary committee, is in the VIP area, backstage at the DC antiwar demonstration. He’s surrounded by press, microphoness, cameras, digital recorders… Finally, there’s an opening. I jump in, introduce myself and remind him that we met last June, and the…
By MATT APUZZO The Associated Press Friday, March 16, 2007 WASHINGTON — Valerie Plame, the CIA operative at the heart of a political scandal, told Congress Friday that senior officials at the White House and State Department “carelessly and recklessly” blew her cover to discredit her diplomat-husband. Plame, whose 2003 outing triggered a federal investigation,…