From the Office of Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following statement after voting for H.Res. 734. The resolution admonishes the Bush Administration for retroactively classifying documents that reveal the magnitude of corruption in Iraq. “The Administration is abusing the classification process to avoid responsibility for its failed policy in Iraq,” Kucinich…
By PAULA M. DAVIS, Kalamazoo Gazette A retired CIA intelligence analyst told a Western Michigan University audience Monday that deliberately fabricated intelligence pushed the United States into invading Iraq. Ray McGovern puts blame for what he called an unnecessary war on an executive branch focused on oil and Israel, on corporate-controlled media that don’t probe,…
By Joshua Holland and Raed Jarrar, AlterNet. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Senate passed a nonbinding resolution supporting “regional federalism” in Iraq. The measure is a disaster waiting to happen, and should be called what it is: a blueprint for ethnic cleansing and potentially a full-blown civil war. The clunkily named Biden-Brownback Iraq Federalism Bipartisan…
The Associated Press The American Civil Liberties Union said Sunday that newly uncovered documents show that the Pentagon secretly sent hundreds of letters seeking the financial records of private citizens without court approval. The ACLU said an analysis of 455 so-called national security letters issued after Sept. 11, 2001 shows that the Pentagon collaborated with…
