Michael Roston, Huffington Post A tug of war has broken out between Congress and the Bush administration over legislation that would put private security contractors on a shorter legal leash. The White House and Justice Department are trying to limit the reach of U.S. criminal law on Blackwater and other private war contractors. With a…
Charles Babington, AP President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill despite his protest that it was filled with unnecessary projects. The 79-14 vote included 34 Republicans who defied the president. Enactment was a foregone conclusion, but it still marked a…
David Edwards and Jason Rhyne, Raw Story A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a “secret room” to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell’s 1984. Appearing on MSNBC’s Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann…
Jason Rhyne, Raw Story A former Marine Corps prosecutor was set to testify before Congress on Thursday that harsh interrogation techniques had tainted his case against an alleged Al Quaeda terrorist — until a last minute email from the Pentagon told him not to. Lt. Col. Stuart Crouch, a former lawyer with the Marines now…
