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By David Kravets, Wired Magazine Four days after President Bush signed controversial legislation legalizing some warrantless surveillance of Americans, the administration is citing the law in a surprise motion today urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the NSA spy program. The lawsuit was brought by lawyers defending Guantanamo Bay prisoners. The lawyers…
David Swanson, Democrats.com — Christiane Brown (KJFK, Reno) interviews Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in this audio clip from last week and presses him on why he admits impeachable offenses have been commited but opposes impeachment. Reid says that impeaching Bush would just give you Cheney, but Brown points out that Cheney can be impeached…
From Richard Matthews on DailyKos — Here are two action items on impeachment for Los Angeles residents. Pass this on to anyone you know in Los Angeles. This petition asks the Los Angeles City Council to consider a resolution to impeach Bush comparable to the one recently passed by Detroit: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/671254384 This form allows you…
Michael Roston, Raw Story A letter sent to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by the House Judiciary Committee alleges that the Justice Department has failed to turn over information in a variety of categories requested in the course of the US Attorneys investigation. A top House Democrat subsequently made a veiled threat to issue more subpoenas….
From a friend of IfP in New Mexico: NM Senate Resolution 5 for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney will be heard by the Senate Public Affairs committee BEFORE it will go to the Judiciary, I was told it will most likely be heard this Friday or Sunday. There are 3 “swing” Democrats on this…
“My Name Used to Be #200343” By David Phinney, IPS News. April 5, 2007 An American former Navy soldier and private contractor imprisoned and tortured in Iraq by the U.S. military and falsely accused of “aiding terrorists” warns that our worst fears about Iraq have come true. A year ago, Donald Vance learned what its…