Bush Era

Secret US Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

By Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen, New York Times When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion […]

Bush Era

Leahy asks AG nominee: Will you block contempt charges?

Nick Juliano, Raw Story The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked President Bush’s attorney general nominee whether he would block criminal contempt proceedings against current and former administration officials. In a letter sent […]

Bush Era

George Bush hates children, especially yours

DAVID ESPO, AP President Bush cast a quiet veto Wednesday against a politically attractive expansion of children’s health insurance, triggering a struggle with the Democratic-controlled Congress certain to reverberate into the 2008 elections. “Congress will […]