Category: Politics
Congress Challenges Bush’s Order to Lock Away Presidential Records
by WS Editors | Jun 1, 2007 | PoliticsDemocratic senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico and Patrick Leahy of Vermont are making a big statement with a small bill. In the House, California Democrat Henry Waxman already has. It’s an amendment to the Presidential Records Act. If it passes the Senate, this will be another sign that the Congress is reasserting its constitutional […]
Senatorial Courtesy | Iraqi Flight Risk
by WS Editors | Jun 1, 2007 | National Security, PoliticsSenator Hothead—Arizona Republican senator and presidential candidate John McCain hadn’t been in town to cast a Senate vote in five weeks when he jumped on Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) for slowing down final negotiations on the bipartisan immigration bill, thereby delaying McCain’s departure for a New York fund-raising event. McCain wanted to attend a midday […]
Rove’s Spotty Record Under Oath | Not Every Deputy Attorney General Lacks Integrity
by WS Editors | May 15, 2007 | PoliticsGoing After Rove—McClatchy newspaper reporters Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev’s May 3 syndicated story provides another justification for Congress to subpoena Karl Rove, the White House Senior Advisor. Rove was already linked to the plan to fire U.S. Attorneys who weren’t “loyal Bushies.” The McClatchy reporters placed Rove in the middle of what appears to […]
Gagged National-Security-Letter Recipients Find Their Voice
by WS Editors | May 15, 2007 | National SecurityIn July 2005, George Christian got a call from an employee he supervised. An FBI agent had called to ask who could receive service of a national security letter addressed to the Library Connection, a nonprofit consortium that provides computer services to twenty-six Connecticut libraries. As executive director, Christian was responsible for the organization’s legal […]
The Army’s Abuse of Its Own Extends Far Beyond Walter Reed
by WS Editors | May 1, 2007 | Politics“Accidents,” Alexander Cockburn once wrote, “are normalcy raised to the level of drama.” The same may be said for scandal, the shocking event that turns out not to have been so shocking after all once the tape is rewound, the warning signs exquisitely detailed and the “big picture” filled in. The scandal du jour is […]
Bad Faith Documentary
