U.S. Rep. Baldwin: Baldwin calls for executive accountability to reverse illegal actiosn and prevent further abuses
9/26/2008

Contact: Jerilyn Goodman
608-251-8737
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Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has introduced the Executive Branch ( Read more... )

By: Daniel W. Reilly and Patrick O'Connor
September 23, 2008 03:58 PM EST

There was a time when Dick Cheney could turn back a Republican revolt on Capitol Hill.

That time is gone.

House Republicans rose up en masse against their vice president on Tuesday morning to blast an administration proposal that would grant Treasury historic authority to start ( Read more... )

Ex-Cheney aide: Bush won't hit Iran

Sep. 17, 2008
HERB KEINON Jerusalem Post correspondent , THE JERUSALEM POST
US President George W. Bush will not attack Iran to halt its nuclear weapons program before his term ends in January, David Wurmser, a key national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney up until last year, has told The Jerusalem ( Read more... )

A GOP congressional leader who was wavering on giving President Bush authority to wage war in late 2002 said Vice President Cheney misled him by saying that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had direct personal ties to al-Qaeda terrorists and was making rapid progress toward a suitcase nuclear weapon.

That's one of the revelations in the new book, " ( Read more... )

Cheney Linked Hussein to Al-Qaeda, Ex-GOP House Leader Says in Book

Tuesday, September 16, 2008; A19

A GOP congressional leader who was wavering on giving President Bush the authority to wage war in late 2002 said Vice President Cheney misled him by saying that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had direct personal ties to al-Qaeda terrorists and was ( Read more... )

Glenn Greenwald
Monday Sept. 15, 2008 09:44 EDT
  For the second consecutive day, The Washington Post has published an excerpt from reporter Barton Gellman's new book on the Cheney Vice Presidency, and it provides still more details on the intense confrontation in March, 2004 between the Bush Justice Department and the Cheney-led White ( Read more... )

"I'm sure when we leave office we're all going to be hauled up before congressional committees and grand juries," Addington told one colleague.

Cheney Shielded Bush From Crisis

By Barton Gellman

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 15, 2008; A01

This is the second of two stories adapted from "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," to be ( Read more... )

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13/09 "For Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Yoo to spend years in jail or the gallows for their crimes would be a powerful lesson to future American leaders
Live streaming feed from Andover Law School starting at 9am this morning. I will try to get some more Bio up on this before it starts but kids waking up so we'll see....

Update: ( Read more... )

Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2008-09-12 14:46.

* Criminal Prosecution

By David Swanson

Here's an interesting self-defense with a gloss of principle and detatchment.

Indictments Are Not The Best Revenge
By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, Wall Street Journal
September 12, 2008

Dershowitz or whoever wrote the headline begins with the pretense that ( Read more... )