[Video] Texas Protests Against Bush

By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY A newly formed consulting firm hired to account for more than $7.3 billion in Iraqi reconstruction money did not deliver a database that could help investigators track waste and fraud, a recent report found. The result: Two years after uncovering one major fraud case, auditors still haven’t determined whether there…

afterdowningstreet.org By David Swanson Your hard work has resulted in Congress cracking open the door to impeachment, justice, and peace. How can you keep it open? A lot of us have our own favorite impeachable offenses – mine is the Iraq war – but a lot of them are not about to go anywhere in…

By Walter Pincus, The Washington Post With even more U.S. contractors now in Iraq and Afghanistan than U.S. military personnel, government officials told Congress yesterday that the Bush administration is not prepared to manage the contractors’ critical involvement in the American war effort. At the end of last September, there were “over 196,000 contractor personnel…

DAVID ESPO, Associated Press …Under Gonzales and Bush, “the Department of Justice suffered a severe crisis of leadership that allowed our justice system to be corrupted by political influence,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who has presided over the investigation into the firings of eight prosecutors whom Democrats say were axed for political reasons. Majority…