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FBI counterterrorism investigators are monitoring domestic U.S. advocacy groups engaged in antiwar, environmental, civil rights and other causes, the American Civil Liberties Union charged yesterday as it released new FBI records that it said detail
Handwritten letter from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to Vice President Cheney regarding his concerns over a briefing on NSA domestic wiretapping, dated July 17th, 2003.
The US policy of "extraordinary rendition" has a human face, and it is mine. I am still recovering from an experience that was completely beyond the pale, outside the bounds of any legal framework and unacceptable in any civilized society.
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today demanded that Attorney General Gonzales appoint a special counsel to investigate the President’s apparent violation of law in asking the NSA to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ international phone cal
The Ohio Patriot Act has made it to the Taft's desk, and with the stroke of a pen, it would most likely become the toughest terrorism bill in the country. The lengthy piece of legislation would let police arrest people in public places who will n
Forget Tookie, pay attention to Pokie
House Judiciary Committee Democrats, spearheaded by Rep. John Conyers, has released the sharpest critique to date surrounding Iraq titled "The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution a
President Bush, caught up in a domestic spying controversy, for the past two years has assured Americans worried about expanded government anti-terrorism powers that court orders were needed to tap telephones.
The U.S. House of Representatives early on Monday passed final legislation to ban the torture of detainees and voted to advance the Pentagon $50 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis said Monday in a radio interview that President Bush should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans.
Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Olympia Snowe of Maine joined Democratic Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Dianne Feinstein of California and Ron Wyden of Oregon in calling for a joint investigation by the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary C
The Minuteman Project was launched earlier this year amid fears that racist crackpots would rough up illegal immigrants trying to slip into this country. Since then, the Minuteman movement has taken hold, with one of the movement's co-founders ma
“First, it is quite likely that 96 Senators of 100 Senators, including 13 of 15 on the Senate Intelligence Committee first learned about this program in the New York Times, not from any Administration briefing.
When district-by-district vote counts are totaled, President Bush received 292,267 votes, according to an analysis by the Democrats. But his official total was 190,889, a difference of more than 100,000 votes, according to the state Web site.
Five U.S. Army Rangers court-martialed over charges of detainee abuse in Iraq have pleaded guilty and been given punishments varying from 30 days to six months in confinement, the military said on Monday.
Senator Boxer has asked four scholars for their opinion on whether Bush's violating of the wiretappping laws is an impeachable offense.
Venezuela has given the world's biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, until the end of this year to enter a joint venture with the state. Failure to do so will almost certainly result in Exxon losing its oil field concessions in the country.
NASA is ready for a January 17 launch of its New Horizons probe to Pluto, the furthest planet in our solar system, officials said.
“His source was not in the White House, I don’t believe,” Bob Woodward said of Robert Novak over a private dinner at the Institute of Politics on Dec. 5.
A pair of discoveries this month along with a handful of others in 2005 have begun to reveal the outer solar system contains a dizzying array of round worlds on countless odd trajectories around the sun, often with multiple satellite systems.
Ranking House Judiciary Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a motion to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for providing misleading information to Congress in advance of the Iraq war, failing to respond to written questions
A victory by Bolivian Socialist Evo Morales would add to a growing leftward shift in South America. Other nations with left-leaning governments:
Comrade Stalin discovered that his pipe was missing. Naturally, he called in , Lavrenti Beria, and instructed him to find the pipe. Hours later, Stalin found it in his desk and called off the search. "But, Comrade Stalin," stammered Beria,
America's business leaders supplied more than $75 million to return Mr. Bush to the White House last year -- and he has paid dividends.
Several recent presidents could have been impeached for selected unconstitutional or illegal actions during their presidencies. But the sitting president, George W. Bush, may win the prize for committing the most impeachable offenses of any recent pr
The violence in Wilmington, which resulted in the deaths of an unknown number of black people, "was part of a statewide effort to put white supremacist Democrats in office and stem the political advances of black citizens," the 1898 Wilming
Our country faces major problems. No longer can they remain hidden from the American people. The Congressman provides a list ....
Forty-seven percent of Americans now approve of Bush's job performance, up from Bush's all-time low approval rating of 39 percent in November and the president's best showing since March when it was 50 percent, ABC said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has ordered a cut in the number of American troops in Afghanistan to about 16,000 from a current 19,000 by next spring, the Pentagon said.
President Nixon, in 1971, made the same argument as President Bush makes today to justify domestic spying without the need for judicial approval, claiming their powers as Commander-in-Chief include overriding any law to preserve and protect the con
