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Impeachment Hunger Strike
After Downing Street — Leslie Angeline began a fast yesterday, Rosa Park’s birthday. She had been trying for some time to get an appointment with Congressman John Conyers to ask him to begin impeachment hearings. She began a sit-in in his office yesterday, and within 5 minutes he agreed to an appointment with her on…
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Harper’s: The [Historical] Case for [Bush’s] Impeachment
Harpers, Scott Horton — As the final eleven months of the Bush Administration are being counted off in Washington, the accepted wisdom is that impeachment must be taken off the table. The end is now so close by — what’s the point? Moreover, the American people would, we are told, view it as an act…
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White House defends waterboarding, CIA can use it again with Bush’s approval
JENNIFER LOVEN, AP News The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal — not torture as critics argue — and has saved American lives. President Bush could authorize waterboarding for future terrorism suspects if certain criteria are met, a spokesman said. A day earlier,…
