By David Morgan, Reuters The Pentagon on Wednesday urged Congress to avoid an early closing of the U.S. military prison in Cuba, despite widespread recognition that the infamous jail has eroded U.S. standing in the world. Defense officials told the U.S. House of Representatives that it could take about three years to try 60 to…
Brad Friedman, bradblog.com Hundreds of Sworn Voter Affidavits Collected by Curtis Campaign, Suggesting Inaccurate Counts on Electronic Voting Machines in FL-24 Race Against Feeney, Disregarded as ‘Not Enough Evidence’…But Without Access to the Machines or Source Code What Other Evidence Could There Be? In addition to voting Rep. Rush Holt’s dangerous Election Reform bill out…
By Jonathan E. Kaplan and Elana Schor House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill. Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers, “We can take the president to court” if…
By Claudio Gatti and Jad Mouawad, The New York Times Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it bought from Iraq as part of a defunct United Nations program, according to investigators. The admission is part of a…
