By Carl Hulse, The New York Times Lawmakers say they plan to dig deeper into the Bush administration’s use of bill-signing statements as ways to circumvent Congressional intent. In a limited examination of the administration’s practice of reserving the authority to interpret legislation, the Government Accountability Office determined that in 6 out of 19 cases…
By David Usborne, The Independent UK The two-star Army General who led the first military investigation into human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has bluntly questioned the integrity of former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, suggesting he misled the US Congress by downplaying his own prior knowledge of what had happened….
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department (HSD) is known chiefly for being the agency in charge of America’s color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system (“Good morning, Americans. Today is Yellow. Be vigilant. Report all suspicious people.”) It’s boogeyman nonsense, of course, doing absolutely nothing to make our country safe. But such…
by Mikael Rudolph of ImpeachforPeace.org The unfortunate death of a respected Congresswoman from California has opened up a seat in the House of Representatives in a strongly Democratic District which will be filled by special election on June 26th. Impeach for Peace does not endorse candidates, but we do strongly support H Res. 333, as…
