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Specter raises prospect of impeachment
Michael Roston, Raw Story …Specter then angrily asked if the White House’s current assertions of executive privilege threatened the current form of government in the United States. “Do you think constitutional government in the United States can survive if the president has the unilateral authority to reject congressional inquiries on grounds of executive privilege, and…
Corporatism’s Privat[ized] Dogs of War… Populists & Burgeoning Democracies Beware!
Blackwater’s Private Spies By Jeremy Scahill June 5, 2008 Copyright © 2008 The Nation This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company’s shooters gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. But by early 2008, Blackwater had largely receded from…
Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes
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Red Cross Monitors Barred From Guantanamo
By William Glaberson, New York Times A confidential 2003 manual for operating the Guantanamo detention center shows that military officials had a policy of denying detainees access to independent monitors from the International Committee of the Red Cross. The manual said one goal was to “exploit the disorientation and disorganization felt by a newly arrived…
Residents Thank Rep. Hinchey For Signing Impeachment Bill
Ithaca Times — Last Tuesday, a group of local activists held a friendly demonstration of gratitude outside of Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s (D-NY, 22) office at Cayuga and Green Streets, thanking Hinchey for being the seventh representative to sign on to and co-sponsor Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich’s impeachment bill. “Our main focus was to thank Hinchey,”…
IMPEACH FOR PEACE Marches on the Pentagon
ByMikaelHere’s a ‘Shout Out!’ to Aaron of our Massachusetts chapter of ImpeachforPeace.org for making our presence known in D.C. this weekend: (Yahoo.com Picture #57). We are thrilled to see (y)our banner in sight of the Pentagon and on Yahoo traveling the digital globe. And are we glad that we busted out for the price of…
