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Obama about to Illegally Attack Syria?
TRUTHOUT – On Sunday, Republican Sen. Bob Corker and Rep. Eliot Engel – a Democrat who voted for the Iraq war – told Fox News that President Obama should strike Syria first and get Congressional approval afterwards. That’s not how the US Constitution says it should go. That’s not how the War Powers Resolution (which,…
Judiciary Committee to VOTE ON H. Res 333?
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Bush Cites Executive Privelege, Won’t Let Rove Testify
Reuters Citing executive privilege, President George W. Bush on Wednesday rejected a subpoena for his close adviser Karl Rove to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee in a probe over fired federal prosecutors. The committee had subpoenaed Rove to testify at a hearing on Thursday morning in its investigation of the firing last year of…
Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent
ByMikaelBy ANDREW O. SELSKY, Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. “There are still innocent people there,” Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff…




























