A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL …You can’t negotiate with the mob. The same applies to Bush and Cheney. They are going to continue to use fog and mirrors to claim that the Bushevik mob family insiders have not “technically” broken the law. That was Al Capone’s defense. “Catch me if you can,” he dared the FBI. It’s…
By Carol D. Leonnig and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration’s wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated rationale for fevered efforts by congressional lawmakers this week to expand the president’s spying powers….
By Marc Ash, t r u t h o u t We are not a nation of laws, if law cannot be enforced at the highest levels of our government. It’s that simple. Noting the Constitution assigns both the right and the obligation to Congress to intercede when the executive branch violates the law is…
