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 […]

Bush Era

Tension at House Hearing on Blackwater

By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t Blackwater employees were accused of committing criminal acts of violence, including an incident in December 2006, when an inebriated Blackwater employee shot and killed […]