Freeway Blogger continues First Amendment call for IMPEACHMENT

By Spencer Ackerman, TPMMuckraker Could Congress stop a Bush administration-brokered deal to garrison U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely? Not according to General Douglas Lute, the so-called “war czar.” Here’s Lute at today’s gaggle: Q General, will the White House seek any congressional input on this? GENERAL LUTE: In the course of negotiations like this, it’s…

Michael Roston, rawstory.com The Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today requested e-mails from the Republican National Committee related to the possible misuse of federal government employees and resources for political purposes. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) warned that there were “Serious questions…about the legality and propriety” of a presentation delivered by…

LARA JAKES JORDAN, AP As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. Six years later, the man President Bush wants to be attorney general acknowledged that the law authorizing those warrants “has its perils” in terrorism cases…

By Peter Baker The Washington Post WASHINGTON — President Bush has authorized another buildup, this time in the White House counsel’s office. Facing a blizzard of congressional investigations, hearings and subpoenas, the White House hired a new crop of lawyers to do battle with the Democratic Congress. White House counsel Fred Fielding, brought in by…