By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post After years of refusing public comment on a particularly harsh CIA interrogation method, top Bush administration officials have suddenly begun pressing a controversial argument that it was legal for the CIA to strap prisoners to a board and pour water over their face to make them believe they were…
By Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants. (Original Article) Senate OKs…
By CARL HULSE, New York Times Democratic House leaders plan to force a vote as early as Thursday on holding Joshua B. Bolten, White House chief of staff, and Harriet E. Miers, former White House counsel, in contempt of Congress. Senior Congressional officials said the House leadership had essentially decided to go ahead with the…
afterdowningstreet.org These Congress Members have signed Wexler’s letter to Conyers Which He Plans to Deliver on Friday [This story amended as IFP has discovered that Rep. Ellison has not yet signed] (*= member of the Judiciary Committee) Baldwin, Tammy, WI, 2nd * Capuano, Michael E., MA, 8th Clarke, Yvette D., NY, 11th Clay, Wm. Lacy,…
