Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Dismissed, AP Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge said Tuesday in a case he described as “lamentable.” U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan….
By Klaus Marre Tuesday March 27, 2007 Senate Democrats Tuesday afternoon won a key vote that clears the way for setting a date by which most U.S. troops would be required to leave Iraq. Democrats defeated by a vote of 50-48 the Republican effort to strip language from the $122 billion-dollar Iraq supplemental spending bill…
by Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org According to James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution,” if a President were to order or allow the “wanton removal of meritorious officers” such as US attorneys, such an action “would subject the President to impeachment and removal from his own high trust.” The issue of the firing of people within…
In an e-mail to his constituents in Minnesota’s 5th District, Freshman Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minneapolis) explained why he voted yes on the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Health and Iraq Accountability supplemental funding request. Ellison’s statement: “This vote, plain and simple, comes down to ending the war – or not. I believe this bill is a…
