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Five Reasons Why FISA Bill May be Worse Than You Think
Democrats, GOP agree to telecom immunity deal as well as amnesty for torture. CALL Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121. CALL House switchboard: 202-225-3121
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Without impeachment, NO law governs the Executive: It matters little, in the grand scheme of things, whether a good FISA bill gets passed or not
FISA FILES
Democrats/GOP only doing what any ( Read more... ) -
George Bush's latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress
Glenn Greenwald
Thursday June 19, 2008 12:26 EDT
(updated below - Update II)
CQ reports (sub. req.) that "a final deal has been reached" on FISA and telecom amnesty and "the House is likely to take up the legislation Friday." I've now just read a copy of the final "compromise" bill. It's even worse than expected. When you read it, it's actually hard ( Read more... ) -
Democrat: Pentagon sought abusive interrogations
Democrat: Pentagon sought abusive interrogations
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago
Military officials tasked with training U.S. troops to evade enemy interrogations helped Pentagon lawyers devise a list of abusive tactics that could be used in prisons like ( Read more... ) -
Democrats to bend over on Iraq war conditions
Democrats to back down on Iraq war conditions
By Richard Cowan Mon Jun 16, 4:43 PM ET
Democrats in the Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill of his presidency without any of the conditions they sought for withdrawing U.S. troops, congressional aides ( Read more... ) -
Searching for Order, Meaning and Miracles, as the World Cracks Apart
June 15, 2008
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Rich is so unassailably comfortable in his protected perch at the lofty, oh-so-noble New York Times that he scrawls with his precious little crayons: "Most of us long ago decided the war was a mistake and tuned out." Together with almost all his fellow writers and pundits, it has been Rich himself who lead the overwhelming, ( Read more... ) -
McCain Fundraiser Says Rape Should Be Enjoyed
Dems badger McCain on money
By MIKE ALLEN | 6/14/08 9
The Democratic National Committee on Saturday called for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to return money raised for his campaign by controversial Texas Republican Clayton “Claytie” Williams Jr.
ABC News reported Friday night that the McCain campaign canceled a Monday fundraiser at Williams’ home after ( Read more... ) -
Kucinich Vows to Keep Up Impeachment Fight
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Kucinich to meet Conyers with documentation for his charges against Bush: if there is no further action, Kucinich said, "... we'll come back with 60 articles, not 35."
"Leadership wants to bury it, but this is one resolution that ( Read more... ) -
Jewish Democrats move to bomb Lebanon for Israel
Madam Speaker I rise in opposition to H. Res. 1194 because it is dangerously interventionist and will likely lead to more rather than less violence in the Middle East.
I have noticed that this legislation reads eerily similar to a key clause in the 2002 Iraq war bill, H J Res 114, which authorized the use of force.
The key resolved clause ( Read more... )
