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By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times As the debate over new espionage legislation intensified last week, senior Democrats in Congress gathered around a speakerphone late Thursday to work out with Director of National Intelligence J. Michael McConnell what they thought were the final pieces of a deal. Instead, the deal unraveled, according to officials involved….
Telluride, CO Passed Citizen-Initiated Ordinance to Impeach Bush and Cheney
By Reilly Capps, Telluride Daily Planet Telluride became the first town in Colorado to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The Telluride Town Council passed a citizen-initiated ordinance on second reading yesterday, 5-2. After the vote was taken, the council received a round of applause. Counting Telluride, 85 towns, counties…
Impeachment: It’s now or possibly never for Democracy
www.ImpeachforPeace.org by Mikael Rudolph Two weeks. That’s what we have left of the August “Summer District Work Period” – realistically our last local opportunity to push for impeachment while ‘our Representatives’ are home. If there isn’t a surge of cosigners the week following Labor Day when Congress returns to D.C. onto H. Res. 589 calling…
Senate Votes for Expansion of Spy Powers, Telecom Immunity
By Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants. (Original Article) Senate OKs…
Sixty of 147 Vermont members of House of Representatives Want Impeachment
WCAX-TV News MONTPELIER, Vt. — After weeks of debate outside the official chambers of the Statehouse, legislative action on resolutions seeking the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have been swift. The House took little more than an hour Wednesday to dispatch a version of the resolution, rejecting it by a vote…
‘Coalition of the Willing’: ‘Mission Accomplished’
Blair announces Iraq troops cut BBC News, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 Prime Minister Tony Blair has told MPs that 1,600 British troops will return from Iraq within the next few months. He said the 7,100 serving troops would be cut to 5,500 soon, with hopes that 500 more will leave by late summer. Denmark to…
