Bush Era

Pentagon urges Congress to keep Guantanamo open

By David Morgan, Reuters The Pentagon on Wednesday urged Congress to avoid an early closing of the U.S. military prison in Cuba, despite widespread recognition that the infamous jail has eroded U.S. standing in the […]

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House Admin Committee Unanimously Votes to Dismiss 4 of 5 Federally Contested 2006 House Elections

Brad Friedman, bradblog.com Hundreds of Sworn Voter Affidavits Collected by Curtis Campaign, Suggesting Inaccurate Counts on Electronic Voting Machines in FL-24 Race Against Feeney, Disregarded as ‘Not Enough Evidence’…But Without Access to the Machines or […]

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Pelosi threatens to sue Bush over Iraq bill

By Jonathan E. Kaplan and Elana Schor House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise […]

Bush Era

Chevron to Acknowledge Aiding Saddam Hussein

By Claudio Gatti and Jad Mouawad, The New York Times Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it […]