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Report: Wasteful Government Spending at All-Time High
By Justin Rood, ABC News The U.S. government has committed to spend a record-high $1.1 trillion with companies holding government contracts “plagued by waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement,” according to a new report by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The report blames the rise in bad spending on a sharp increase in noncompetitive…
DOJ investigating Gonzales perjury allegations
ByMikaeljurist.law.pitt.edu by Alexis Unkovic [JURIST] The US Department of Justice has begun an internal inquiry to determine whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] may have perjured himself [JURIST report] in testimony before Congress, DOJ Inspector General Glenn A. Fine [official profile] said Thursday. In a letter [PDF text] dated August 16,…
BBC: Do you support impeachment?
Do you support calls for President Bush’s impeachment? Did he lie about the reasons for going to war in Iraq? The anti-war protests across America this weekend included calls for President Bush to be impeached for crimes against the American people. Most senior Democrats say they don’t want to impeach the president, but growing numbers…
Bush Admin pushed ‘bogus’ terror threat to expand FISA, lawmaker says
SRC=”http://web.archive.org/web/20080611100702/http://rawstory.com//images/new/capitolpolice.jpg” align=”left”/>RawStory — Republicans and the Bush administration used a ‘bogus’ terror threat that raised specific fears of an attack on the Capitol to scare lawmakers into adopting a dramatic temporary expansion of the government’s spy powers last month, a former top intelligence committee Democrat said Wednesday. Congress agreed to give President Bush and the…
Vermont Impeachment Actions Spread to Washington, disrupt Senate…
War protesters interrupt WA Senate debate, Associated Press- A small group of Iraq war protesters interrupted Senate floor debate Tuesday night, standing up one by one in the public gallery, flashing the peace sign and calling for the war to end. … The 10 protesters were peacefully removed from the gallery by security and went…
Past Performance Considered… Don’t Get Your Hopes Too High For Tomorrow
Conyers Plans Impeachment Substitute By Jason Leopold July 18, 2008 © 2008 Consortium News. All rights reserved. Rebuffing Dennis Kucinich’s calls for impeachment hearings on George W. Bush, the House Judiciary Committee instead will hear testimony about Bush’s “imperial presidency” and several of his administration’s scandals. In a press release issued Thursday, Rep. John Conyers,…
