By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY Proposals designed to make voting easier and ballots more secure are beginning to advance in several states. The proposals range from allowing voters to register until Election Day to expanding the use of absentee ballots and early in-person voting. Several states and Congress also are promoting paper trails for electronic…
San Francisco Chronicle February 27, 2007 E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group The administration’s willingness at the outset to say anything, no matter how questionable, to justify the war has destroyed its credibility. Its habit of attacking those who expressed misgivings has destroyed any goodwill it might have enjoyed. Bush and Cheney have lost…
therawstory Report: Many CIA ‘ghost prisoners’ still ‘disappeared’ Michael Roston Published: Tuesday February 27, 2007 A report released yesterday by Human Rights Watch revealed that at least thirty-eight men detained in the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prisons are still unaccounted for… time for Congress to boost its oversight in order to “monitor and police the…
Iraq Samar Sa’ad ‘Abdullah (f), aged about 25 Wassan Talib (f), aged 31 Zeynab Fadhil (f), aged 25 Liqa’ Qamar (f), aged 25 The four women named above have been sentenced to death, and at least one of them is in imminent danger of execution. The president has the power to pardon them, or commute…
