By Max Holland, Washington Decoded In a revelation bound to cast a pall over the 9/11 Commission, Philip Shenon will report in a forthcoming book that the panel’s executive director, Philip Zelikow, engaged in “surreptitious” communications with presidential adviser Karl Rove and other Bush administration officials during the commission’s 20 – month investigation into the…
[IFP received this email update from Brad Newsham – founder of the ‘Beach Impeach’ projects] A Short Sweet Impeachment Story Every day I try to do one thing, usually small, to forward impeachment. Here’s the story of yesterday: My friend Cynthia Papermaster sent me an email with the names and phone numbers (below) of the…
Ariane DeVogue, ABC News For the first time, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has addressed the issue of whether waterboarding — an interrogation technique that simulates drowning — is illegal. He says that there are some circumstances where current law “would appear clearly to prohibit the use of the technique.” But in a letter to Democratic…
Center for American Progress Action Fund Earlier this week, President Bush signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008, which included a statute forbidding the Bush administration from spending taxpayer money “to establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq.” But…
