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House passes FISA update without telecom immunity
Nick Juliano, Raw Story House Democrats succeeded Thursday in passing a foreign surveillance law update that would restore judicial oversight to foreign intelligence gathering efforts aimed at Americans and would not grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that facilitated the warrantless surveillance of Americans. On a 224-192 vote, largely along party lines, the House adopted…
Rep. Defazio’s Inept Impeachment Form Letter…
A friend of IfP sent us her Representative’s response to her letter to him about his lack of support on Impeachment. He, as so many representatives have before him, fails to understand the power of an impeachment trial. Regardless of whether Bush is removed from office, the true power is in exposing his crimes and…
U.S.-installed Iraqi ex-PM says Bush “utter failure”
ByMikaelReuters By Khalid al-Ansary BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an “utter failure” that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country. In an interview published on Saturday in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, Allawi found fault with American…
Ex-Rove aide pleads Fifth on contacts with Abramoff
Michael Roston, Raw Story Susan Ralston, the former executive assistant to top White House adviser Karl Rove, invoked her rights against self-incrimination while she was being asked to answer questions by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee’s Chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, announced in a memo Tuesday. The deposition for which she…
Conyers Threatens Subpoenas for Yoo, Addington, other torture advocates
ByMikaeltherawstory Conyers to torture memo author: Testify voluntarily or face subpoena Nick Juliano House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has threatened to subpoena several former officials in the Bush administration if they do not agree to testify about their roles in the preparation of the so-called “torture memos” that authorized severe interrogation tactics in the…
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US anti-war ralliers: Impeach Bush
PressTv — Tens of thousands of people have staged anti-war rallies in cities across the US calling for the impeachment of Bush for war crimes. Demonstrators marked the fifth anniversary of the US Senate’s vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq in a dozen US cities including Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New Jersey, Ohio, Orlando,…
