Bush Era

Twenty Recommendations For Action Now Being Considered As A Result Of Conference On War Crimes. Goal Is To Give Continued Life To Nuremberg Principles Barring Aggressive War And Torture, Instead Of Allowing Bush/Cheney To Destroy Them With Impunity By Sherwood Ross Reprinted with permission ANDOVER , MASS. (Special) — Twenty recommendations made at a conference…

therawstory Nick Juliano The Bush administration’s practice of relying on classified legal “opinions” from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council to reinterpret laws to mean whatever the president needs them to mean has produced such gems as “extraordinary rendition” and “enhanced interrogation.” With George W. Bush just a few short months from returning to…

therawstory Dem Senator: We’ll fix Bush abuses after he ‘slinks off the stage’ Nick Juliano Some Democrats — frustrated at banging their heads against a wall much of these last eight years, as they’ve watched George W. Bush run roughshod over the Constitution and the rule of law — are determined to return some semblance…