Associated Press A Senate Democratic leader Tuesday urged a Bush-appointed judge to recuse himself from cases involving enemy combatants and requested an explanation about information that might contradict his testimony about the White House’s detainee policy. “It appears that you misled me, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the nation,” Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of…
Henry Waxman, U.S. House Committe on Oversight and Government Reform Contrary to the recent claims of White House spokesperson Dana Perino, there is evidence that the White House has repeatedly failed to investigate security violations, take corrective action following breaches, and appropriately protect classified information. (Original Article) Letter to Fred Fielding: The Oversight Committee has…
David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story CNN spoke on Monday to prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, co-author of a current four-part series exposing Vice President Cheney’s dominance of US policy decisions. Gellman first described Cheney’s leading role in approving of enhanced interrogation methods, saying that “Dick Cheney decided early on, we’re not going…
Scholars urge Bush to ban use of torture THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to “violations of the human rights” of terror suspects held by the United States. The White House said Bush had…
