John Byrne, Raw Story President Bush authorized a “series of secret surveillance activities” by executive order after Sept. 11, 2001, according to a letter from Bush Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA). The disclosure marks the first time “that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush’s order included undisclosed activities…
By John Feffer and John Gershman, Foreign Policy in Focus …In the United States, the administration suspended key civil liberties. It imprisoned over 5,000 foreign nationals, subjected 80,000 Arab and Muslim immigrants to fingerprinting and registration, sent 30,000 “national security letters “every year to U.S. businesses demanding information about their customers, and justified the large-scale,…
By Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post Vice President Cheney said yesterday that he would not close the prison housing suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, going public with a perspective that differs from that of others in the administration, including President Bush. Bush has said repeatedly that he wants to close the prison once administration officials figure…
by David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org …If we add Congressman Payne’s name to the official list of cosponsors of H Res 333, including the original sponsor, Kucinich, we get a total of 16 principled men and women standing for the impeachment of Dick Cheney. They are: Jan Schakowsky, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Keith Ellison, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara…
