Thomas B. Edsall, Huffington Post Henry Waxman:…They use the attack on September 11, 2001, as an excuse to, in many ways, shred the constitution and act unilaterally. The founders of this country viewed with alarm any concentration of power with the wise understanding that, when there’s a concentration of power, it would lead to abuse,…
By Helen Fessenden, The Hill Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee aim to have a new foreign-intelligence surveillance bill ready by early October, or at least early enough that the Bush administration will not be able to use the pre-recess ticking clock as a pressuring tactic this time around. Panel Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) told…
HEBRON – The Democratic Town Committee is seeking to have President Bush and Vice President Cheney impeached, and has called on a Democratic Connecticut congressman to take action. The Democrats during an Aug. 21 meeting backed a resolution to impeach the president and the vice president. The resolution cited 12 “crimes,” among them: violation of…
