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Impeach Bush
Impeach Bush
by Dave Lindorff, OpEdNews.com After a year of running around flogging my book The Case for Impeachment (St. Martin’s Press, 2006), I’ve had to give a lot of thought to a question I have gotten over and over from radio hosts to ordinary people concerned about the fate of the country and our Constitution. The…
By KATHERINE SHRADER WASHINGTON (AP) – The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is questioning whether the CIA’s secret prison program – which he fears has become a black eye to the United States – should continue. The review led by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., comes as the Bush administration deliberates an executive order, called…
Think Progress On Aug. 19, seven active duty soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division wrote an op-ed in The New York Times called “The War As We Saw It.” The piece expressed skepticism about “recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable”: The claim that we are increasingly in control of the battlefields in…
By Congressman John Conyers, DailyKos.com I wanted to share with all of you the reasoning behind a significant step I have taken in the investigation of the mass firings of federal prosecutors and the politicization occurring within the Department of Justice. Today, I issued subpoenas to former White House Counsel Harriett Miers to compel her…
Blackwater looking to train N. Idaho police The Associated Press 2008-05-01 23:58:44.0 Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved COEUR d’Alene, Idaho – Blackwater Worldwide is negotiating for construction of a regional law enforcement training center in northern Idaho.The private military contractor based in Moyock, N.C., is working on a deal with the Idaho…
Bush steps up fight over congressional authority By MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of power between the White House and Congress. Justice Department lawyers said Wednesday that they will soon ask a federal appeals court not to force the…