By JAY WEAVER, Miami Herald Feb 22, 2007 height=”96″ alt=”jose_padilla_fbi_ap.jpg”Today’s highly publicized hearing about the competency of terror defendant Jose Padilla may be focused on his mental fitness to stand trial in April. But it’s really about his defense lawyers’ ploy to explore — and expose — for the first time how the one-time “enemy…
By Deniz Yeter – t r u t h o u t | Report – Wed 21 Feb 2007 Hillary Mann Leverett, the former National Security Council Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Affairs under the Bush administration from 2001 to 2004, until she left the administration, has issued a sober warning to the public…
Another Long Walk By William Rivers Pitt – t r u t h o u t | Columnist Wednesday 21 February 2007 (photo: TomPaine.com) The moment is as iconic as any within the pages of American history. Three prominent Republican senators – Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, John Rhodes of Arizona and conservative icon Barry Goldwater…
Representative Daryl Pillsbury (I. Brattleboro) introduced a resolution on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007: – Joint House Resolution 15 – requesting Congress to commence impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States. For more details go to: AfterDowningStreet.org. It’s headed for the Vermont State Judiciary Committee in Montpelier.
