Fascism is alive and well in Saint Paul around the RNC – II

Mike Sheehan, Raw Story Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding a special counsel with a “full investigative mandate” in the CIA destroyed tapes case, according to a press release. Responding to Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s announcement that an assistant U.S. Attorney would investigate the controversial case on behalf of the…

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…

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld … By Robin Wright, The Washington Post In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid “physical labor” and wrote of the need to “keep elevating the threat,” “link Iraq to Iran” and develop “bumper sticker statements” to…