The Huffington Post by Sam Stein Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy insisted on Monday in firm and passionate terms that a comprehensive investigation be launched into the conduct of the Bush administration, saying anything less would prevent the country from moving forward. Speaking at a forum at Georgetown University, the Vermont Democrat suggested the…
CQPolitics Panetta Hedges on Rendition Remarks By Tim Starks, CQ Staff Leon E. Panetta, the Obama administration’s pick to lead the CIA, backed away Friday from earlier remarks that he suspected the United States had transferred terror suspects to other countries so that they could be tortured. The vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,…
therawstory by John Byrne Lawyer signals Rove cooperating with Justice Dept. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove “won’t comply” with congressional subpoenas, according to a newspaper report of an event held in Los Angeles earlier this week. Rove spoke Tuesday evening at Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit institution in Los Angeles, as…
by Sherwood Ross “We have become the World War II Japanese and Germans,” a prominent American law school dean writes of the United States in a book of essays. “We do what they did, and we use similar justifications, albeit we alter them to fit our own circumstances. Meanwhile the Japanese and the Germans are…
