By Scott Shane, New York Times Six human rights groups on Wednesday released a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the United States and whose whereabouts are unknown, calling on the Bush administration to abandon such detentions. The list, compiled from news media reports, interviews and government documents, includes terrorism…
By Dan Eggen, Washington Post Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday. The meeting came one day before White House officials tried to get approval for the…
Michael Roston, Raw Story The former Deputy Attorney General to John Ashcroft and later Alberto Gonzales described an attempt by the current, embattled Attorney General to centralize power within his office as he began his term at the Justice Department. James Comey, who served as Deputy Attorney General from 2003 through 2005, described Gonzales’ plan…
By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers When trying to figure out the motives of the Bush Administration on nearly any issue you can think of, the first place to look should always be Karl Rove’s “politics” workshop. By “politics,” I mainly mean how an action affects the survival of the CheneyBush Administration, and only incidentally…
