[VIDEO]: Corporate Media ‘Asleep at the Wheel’ as Democracy fails

By Arshad Mohammed, Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday all but said she will not testify to Congress about a discredited justification for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq but agreed to answer questions in writing. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday approved a subpoena, a form of legal demand, for Rice to appear before…

~ Ray McGovern with IFP Co-Founder Mikael Rudolph therawstory David Edwards A former CIA analyst claims that falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced back to Vice President Dick Cheney. Appearing on MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson Show, Ray McGovern…

Michael Roston, Raw Story The House Intelligence Committee has announced that it will investigate the cooperation of telephone companies with the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping activities. “One of [Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell’s] proposals is to grant immunity to individuals who and companies that facilitated electronic surveillance activities that were part of the…

By Walter Pincus, Washington Post The Bush administration plans to leave oversight of its expanded foreign eavesdropping program to the same government officials who supervise the surveillance activities and to the intelligence personnel who carry them out, senior government officials said yesterday. The law, which permits intercepting Americans’ calls and e-mails without a warrant if…