By Spencer Ackerman, TPMMuckraker Could Congress stop a Bush administration-brokered deal to garrison U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely? Not according to General Douglas Lute, the so-called “war czar.” Here’s Lute at today’s gaggle: Q General, will the White House seek any congressional input on this? GENERAL LUTE: In the course of negotiations like this, it’s…
By Stephen Grey, London Sunday Times The secret flight plans of American military planes have revealed for the first time how European countries helped send prisoners, including British citizens, to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Despite widespread criticism of alleged human rights abuses and torture at the US base in Cuba, a Sunday Times investigation…
PAMELA HESS, AP News In federal courts and on Capitol Hill, challenges are brewing to a key legal strategy President Bush is using to protect a secret surveillance program that monitors phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. Under grilling from lawmakers and attack by lawsuits alleging Bush authorized the illegal wiretapping of Americans,…
By Robert Parry, Consortium News When the Bushes are involved in dirty deals or even criminal activity, standards of evidence change. Instead of proof “beyond a reasonable doubt’ that would lock up an average citizen, the evidence must be perfect. If there’s any doubt at all, the Bushes must be presumed innocent. Even when their…
