[Video] How the news works
src=’http://www.whoneedstelevision.com/images/linkthumbs/th_15685.jpg’ alt=’Click to view this video’ />
SRC=”http://web.archive.org/web/20080611100702/http://rawstory.com//images/new/capitolpolice.jpg” align=”left”/>RawStory — Republicans and the Bush administration used a ‘bogus’ terror threat that raised specific fears of an attack on the Capitol to scare lawmakers into adopting a dramatic temporary expansion of the government’s spy powers last month, a former top intelligence committee Democrat said Wednesday. Congress agreed to give President Bush and the…
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks “unavoidable” given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s deputies said on Friday. “If Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are…
By Carol D. Leonnig and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration’s wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated rationale for fevered efforts by congressional lawmakers this week to expand the president’s spying powers….
Submitted Directly to ImpeachforPeace.org By Sherwood Ross If you, my fellow Americans, will not demand the impeachment of the worst president in American history, a man who is a traitor to our Constitution, a global tyrant, a destroyer of world peace and order, and a threat to the survival of human life on this planet,…
By Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, New York Times It would become known inside the Central Intelligence Agency as “the Italian job,” a snide movie reference to the bungling performance of an agency team that snatched a radical Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003 and flew him to Egypt — a case…
New York, NY — United for Peace and Justice, the country’s largest anti-war coalition with over 1400 member groups, condemns President Bush’s continued arrogant and unconstitutional use of signing statements. On Monday, Jan. 25, 2008, President Bush released a signing statement claiming the right to violate four sections of H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization…