National Guard vet Bush to be ‘recycled’ to Iraq?


Star-Gazette.com-ITHACA, New York — Hours before attending a rally protesting the ongoing Iraq war, U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey used a community forum Saturday at the Ithaca Town Hall to decry President Bush’s foreign policy. … But as the forum continued, many of the audience’s questions kept returning to the Bush administration’s handling of the war…
President Bush’s policies on Iraq have prompted two groups in Maine to call for his impeachment. Maine Lawyers for Democracy and the group Maine Campaign to Impeach held a news conference Monday. … The groups are calling on Maine congressmen Tom Allen and Mike Michaud, both Democrats, to begin impeachment proceedings against the President and…
By Susan Crabtree, thehill.com A Justice Department official pledged that the ongoing investigation into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s activities and connections to several sitting lawmakers would be handled fairly and without political interference, despite the ongoing controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year and questions about whether they were dismissed for purely…
AFP (from rawstory) Published: Sunday March 4, 2007 Senior US diplomats put pressure on Germany not to prosecute 13 people linked to the alleged CIA-backed abduction of a German […] in a failed bid to block the issue of arrest warrants against the 13 suspected CIA co-workers, the news magazine Der Spiegel said. It is…
Mistrial Declared for War Resister Lt. Watada By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet Posted February 8, 2007 (Cohn and Watada with Mikael Rudolph of ImpeachforPeace.org) When the Army judge declared a mistrial over defense objection in 1st Lt. Ehren Watada’s court martial on Wednesday, he probably didn’t realize jeopardy attached. That means that under the Double Jeopardy…
UNCOVERING SECRETS Friday, May 09, 2008 2:04 PM Partnership for Civil Justice Freedom of Information Act Requests Demand Government Release National Mall Documents Two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were filed today by the Partnership for Civil Justice (PCJ) on behalf of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition seeking critical information about the effort of the Bush…