[Videos]: Winter Soldier 2008 – Veterans share Iraq horrors
Upon the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, hundreds of US veterans of the war say the American military has been covering up widespread civilian killings in that country.
Upon the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, hundreds of US veterans of the war say the American military has been covering up widespread civilian killings in that country.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — He’s a mayor in a state that President Bush carried by 46 percentage points in the 2004 election, but Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson told CNN Monday he thinks it’s time the president should be impeached. “We think if impeachment were ever justified, this certainly is the time,” Anderson, a Utah…
By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t Peter Keisler, the acting US attorney general, covered up evidence of alleged widespread contracting fraud in Iraq by preventing whistleblowers’ complaints from being investigated, according to a prominent fraud attorney. Alan Grayson, an attorney who has represented scores of whistleblowers in suits against companies…
Four and a half years ago, I addressed the issue of war in an open letter to our President. Today I would like to again speak to him and his, directly. Mr. President, Mr. Cheney, Ms. Rice et al: Indeed America has a rich history of greatness -indeed, America is still today a devastating military…
wweek.com Oregon’s four Democratic House members are backing a resolution to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) […] was joined in co-sponsoring Inslee’s resolution by fellow Oregon Democrats Peter DeFazio, David Wu and Darlene Hooley. Oregon’s fifth House member, Republican Greg Walden, did not return a call for comment. (Original Article)
Bush Decides to Keep Guantánamo Open By STEVEN LEE MYERS October 21, 2008 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company WASHINGTON – Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon…
By Murray Waas, The National Journal The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin, a protege of Rove’s, as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The withheld records…