Bush:”Not a penny more for infrastructure”

By Carol D. Leonnig and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration’s wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated rationale for fevered efforts by congressional lawmakers this week to expand the president’s spying powers….

Neither, it’s the 435 members of the United States Congress The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line. You gotta pass this one on [Received at IFP offices via email]

By William Fisher, t r u t h o u t As the government’s fiscal year came to an end last week, the Bush administration had resettled only slightly more than 10 percent of the 7,000 Iraqi refugees it pledged to help – and an even tinier fraction of the estimated two million men, women…

By Dan Eggen, Washington Post After nine months of noisy controversy over his troubled tenure, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales is leaving office quietly today with a low-key farewell address to Justice Department employees in Washington. Gonzales, who has made only three public appearances since announcing his resignation on Aug. 27, is expected to dwell…