Over a Million Deaths in Iraq due to U.S. invasion and occupation

Michael Roston, Raw Story Alberto Gonzales’s Justice Department has issued legal opinions in recent weeks seeking to bolster the White House’s claims of executive privilege against Congressional investigations. At the same time, a bipartisan group in Congress is fighting what it sees as hostility toward the exercise of attorney-client privilege in federal corporate crime prosecutions….

Nick Juliano, Raw Story A Washington-based legal watchdog has sued the White House Office of Administration alleging the administration refuses to comply with a public records request related to more than 5 million e-mails from administration officials that have gone missing, according to a press release. “The White House has decided to play an unlawful…

By Klaus Marre, The Hill The destruction of e-mails from top White House officials “could be the most serious breach of the Presidential Records Act in the 30-year history of the law,” according to an interim report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The committee is investigating the use of non-White House e-mail…

By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers Facing eroding support for his Iraq policy, even among Republicans, President Bush on Thursday called al Qaida “the main enemy” in Iraq, an assertion rejected by his administration’s senior intelligence analysts. The reference, in a major speech at the Naval War College that referred to al Qaida at least…