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70% DISAPPROVE OF BUSH AMID FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
Democratic Underground Historic Disapproval: Bush Hits All-Time Low Amid Economic Meltdown Source: ABC News Just two presidents have had lower approval (Richard Nixon and Harry Truman) than President Bush, and none has had higher disapproval in polls since 1938. McCain’s problem: Fifty-three percent of registered voters think he’d lead the country in the same direction…
Senate seeks to toughen penalties for outing undercover agents
Nick Juliano, Raw Story A Senate committee is seeking tougher penalties for government officials who knowingly release the identity of undercover intelligence agents, in an apparent reaction to controversy in recent years over officials in the Bush administration disclosing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Wilson. The Intelligence Authorization Act would increase the maximum penalty…
Day 8 (Friday): Libby jury’s notes hint at conflict over verdict
By James Gordon Meek New York Daily News Saturday, March 3, 2007 WASHINGTON – Notes from the jury deliberating the fate of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby gave a hint there might be one or two holdouts on a conviction. “We would like clarification of the term “reasonable doubt,’ ” the jury…
Report Suggests Laws Broken in Attorney Firings
By Amy Goldstein, Washington Post House Democrats, preparing for a vote today on contempt citations against President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel, produced a report yesterday that for the first time alleges specific ways that several administration officials may have broken the law during the multiple firings of U.S. attorneys. The report says…
Five Ways Bush’s Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9/11
Matthew Rothschild, The New Press Today’s America is a much less free place than the America of 2000. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has, by word and by deed, erected an edifice of repression here in the United States. We’ve been living in it ever since. And it’s not a…
US Officials See Waste in Billions Sent to Pakistan
By David Rohde, Carlotta Gall, Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger, New York Times After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money….
