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Dems: Confirmation of new AG contingent on subpoenas being honored
thehill.com No rush for Mukasey confirmation hearing, say Dems By Elana Schor President Bush’s choice of Michael Mukasey as the next attorney general won early praise Monday, but Democrats appeared ready to take their time on a confirmation hearing until the administration plays ball on subpoenaed documents that it continues to withhold. Senate Judiciary Committee…
Waxman Says He Will Keep an Open Mind on Impeachment
By Marcy Winograd, Afterdowningstreet.org Congressman Waxman, Chair of the House Oversight Committee, told an impeachment delegation meeting with him in his Los Angeles office, Tues., Aug. 7, 2007, that he would mull over his constituents’ articulate arguments, watch the Bill Moyers’ interview on impeachment, and weigh whether there was sufficient evidence to, not just impeach,…
Massive Baghdad Protest Against U.S. Occupation – Tens of Thousands In Streets
Sadr urges Iraqi MPs to reject US security pact Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD (AFP) – Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged Iraqi lawmakers on Saturday to reject a planned US-Iraqi security deal as tens of thousands of his followers poured on to the streets of Baghdad in a massive anti-American protest. “When the agreement is in your…
Senior Military Official says Blackwater “May Be Worse Than Abu Ghraib”
Private Security Puts Diplomats, Military at Odds By Sudarsan Raghavan and Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the…
