6 Signs The US May Be Headed for War in Iran By davidswanson Created 2008-03-13 20:06 By Terry Atlas, US News & World Report Is the United States moving toward military action with Iran? The resignation of the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East is setting off alarms that the Bush administration [...]
Archive for March 15th, 2008
15 Mar
Kennedy Says Bush Guilty of “One of the Most Outrageous Abuses of Executive Power in Our Nation’s History
Kennedy Says Bush Guilty of “One of the Most Outrageous Abuses of Executive Power in Our Nation’s History: “Published on AfterDowningStreet.org (http://www.afterdowningstreet.org)Kennedy Says Bush Guilty of ‘One of the Most Outrageous Abuses of Executive Power in Our Nation’s History’ By davidswanson Created 2008-03-13 20:21 Senator Edward M. Kennedy released the following statement in response [...]
15 Mar
Bush and Spitzer: Compare and Contrast
Bush and Spitzer: Compare and Contrast: “Published on AfterDowningStreet.org (http://www.afterdowningstreet.org)Bush and Spitzer: Compare and ContrastBy davidswansonCreated 2008-03-15 19:01 Of Laws and MenBy RALPH NADER, CounterPunch [1] The Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, has resigned for being a longtime customer of a high-priced prostitution ring. The President of the United States, George W. Bush, remains, [...]
15 Mar
House Passes a Surveillance Bill Not to Bush’s Liking
House Passes a Surveillance Bill Not to Bush’s Liking By Jonathan WeismaWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, March 15, 2008; Page A02 A deeply divided House approved its latest version of terrorist surveillance legislation yesterday, rebuffing President Bush‘s demand for a bill that would grant telecommunications firms retroactive immunity for their cooperation in past warrantless wiretapping and [...]
15 Mar
Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda not linked, Pentagon says
Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda not linked, Pentagon says WASHINGTON (CNN) – The U.S. military’s first and only study looking into ties between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection between the two, according to a military report released by the Pentagon. The report released by the Joint Forces Command [...]
15 Mar
House challenges Bush on surveillance
House challenges Bush on surveillance The House voted Friday to back a revision to the Democratic-sponsored FISA bill. updated 3:03 p.m. EDT, Fri March 14, 200 The vote was 213-197 in favor of a revision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill that was supported by the Democratic leadership. One member voted present. The [...]
15 Mar
Audit: FBI Privacy Abuses Rose in 2006
Audit: FBI Privacy Abuses Rose in 2006 By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN The Associated Press Thursday, March 13, 2008; 5:59 PM WASHINGTON — Top-level FBI counterterrorism executives issued improper blanket demands in 2006 for records of 3,860 telephone lines to justify the fact that agents already had obtained the data using an illegal procedure that [...]
15 Mar
FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters
FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters 2003-06 Audit Cites Probes of Citizens By Dan Eggan Staff Writer Friday, March 14, 2008; Page A03 The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal records of U.S. citizens rather than foreigners implicated in terrorism or counterintelligence investigations, and at least once it relied on [...]
