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GOP Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota to be site of Major Protests
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Fascist Park Police actions in Virginia, Rep. Boucher (D-VA) admirably intercedes
Capitol Hill Blue American gestapo Abuse of power by National Park Service police by Doug Thompson “Sir, if you raise that camera to take a photograph I will place you under arrest,” he barked. I identified myself as a working journalist on assignment and said I was simply covering a news event. “Sir,” he retorted,…
Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps
By Dan Eggen, Washington Post Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday. The meeting came one day before White House officials tried to get approval for the…
White House Sued Again Over Email
The Associated Press The White House abandoned an automatic archiving system for its e-mail in 2002 and did not replace it, says a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the Executive Office of the President. The suit by the National Security Archive, a private group, is the latest effort to find out whether the Bush administration lost…
Did Bush stack the deck against civil rights?
Raw Story Using a questionable, unprecedented maneuver President Bush has installed a solid Republican majority on a supposedly bipartisan civil rights panel, leading it to abandon racial justice and civil rights cases in favor of arguing against school integration and affirmative action. The eight-member US Commission on Civil Rights has served for half a century…
