By Gail Russell Chaddock, The Christian Science Monitor Not since the Depression-era Congress of 1932 has Capitol Hill ramped up so quickly for oversight hearings and related legislation – most targeting the Bush administration. Both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are hiring more lawyers, and watchdog groups say they are swamped with calls from committee staff…
By Tim Golden, The New York Times A long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with more than a dozen prisoners subjecting themselves to daily force-feeding to protest their treatment, military officials and lawyers for the detainees say. Lawyers for several hunger strikers said their clients’ actions…
THE FEW. THE PROUD. THE DISILLUSIONED. Conflict in Iraq: Some active duty troops, while proud to serve, are speaking out and signing a petition against the war Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, April 7, 2007 Last month, a career chief master sergeant in the Air Force wrote an opinion piece in the…
AFP Published: Friday April 6, 2007 Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Friday that Saudi’s King Abdullah was “mistaken” when he questioned the legality of the US military presence in Iraq and should “correct” his controversial remarks on the matter. “With all due respect to the King, it’s a mistake to…
