By Pete Yost, Associated Press There were 20.5 million decisions to classify government secrets last year, and a report to the president found serious shortcomings in the process. The Information Security Oversight Office said more than 1 in 10 documents it reviewed lacked a basis for classification, “calling into question the propriety” of the decisions…
Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger, The Guardian The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned. The shift follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state…
Michael Roston, Raw Story Alberto Gonzales’s Justice Department has issued legal opinions in recent weeks seeking to bolster the White House’s claims of executive privilege against Congressional investigations. At the same time, a bipartisan group in Congress is fighting what it sees as hostility toward the exercise of attorney-client privilege in federal corporate crime prosecutions….
AfterDowningStreet.org David Swanson (As If Bush Will Obey the Law Anyway) The following Democratic Senators have still not signed up to cosponsor the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007: Daniel Akaka (D-HI); Max Baucus (D-MT); Evan Bayh (D-IN); Robert Casey (D-PA); Kent Conrad (D-ND); Byron Dorgan (D-ND); Daniel Inouye (D-HI); Herb Kohl (D-WI); Mary Landrieu…
