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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
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.
“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.
Senator Boxer has asked four scholars for their opinion on whether Bush's violating of the wiretappping laws is an impeachable offense.
China sharply raised the official size of its economy after taking into account emerging service industries, saying its output last year was 16.8 percent higher than previously reported. Jumping to No. 4, after only the US, Japan and Germany, if it i
Government is a great evil on the earth. 100,000,000+ of governments’ own citizens were killed by them during the last 100 years alone. Why is government evil? Because of government’s ability to shield its workers from the consequences of their
In ordering the NSA to spy secretly on America, Bush has overturned Signals Intelligence Directive 18, which prohibits domestic spying by NSA; violated the federal act which created the FISA court to oversee covert domestic investigations; and trampl
Angered by a bill in the US Congress aimed at cracking down on undocumented workers, Mexican President Vicente Fox urged Americans not to forget that many of their ancestors emigrated to the US.
President Bush on Monday said disclosure of his domestic eavesdropping program was a “shameful act” and said he will keep using it “for so long as the nation faces the continuing threat of an enemy that wants to kill American citizens.”
Dozens of high level detainees from the regime of Saddam Hussein have been released, the US military said, with an Iraqi lawyer saying they included female weapons scientists "Dr Anthrax" and "Dr Germ" who was ranked 53rd on the U
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Congress had essentially given President Bush the authority for domestic surveillance after the 9/11 attacks, defending Bush's decision not to seek warrants "we don't have the speed and the agility
Vice President Richard Cheney said the 9/11 attacks on the US could have been averted, if the government had the power to monitor electronic communications inside the country. 'It's the kind of capability if we'd had before 9/11 might hav
When Chinese authorities crack down on Internet use by dissidents, or the Burmese government prevents its people from access to e-mail, they rely on technology, usually from corporations in the US, to help them police the Web.
Canada has no interest in a new US initiative to study building a security wall along the border, officials said. And a cross-border business group said it makes no sense when what's urgently required are measures to speed the flow of trade.
House Republican leaders plan to bring to the floor today a $453 billion defense spending bill laden with several add-ons, including a contentious provision to allow drilling in an Arctic reserve, which could threaten the bill's chances of passin
President Bush abandoned his everything-is-OK pitch: He was wrong about the rationale for going to war in Iraq; he underestimated the dangers; the country has suffered "terrible loss"; and the bad news isn't over. But we have to stay th
If a terrorist suspect in detention had information about an imminent attack represented a possible exception to the ban. "It would not shock the conscience. And in that million-to-one situation, then the president would authorize it and take r
Washington considers Morales an enemy in its anti-drug fight in Bolivia, the third biggest cocaine producer after Colombia and Peru. His critics fear a Morales government could jeopardize the country's flow of multi-million dollar economic aid
The mild stroke suffered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday abruptly raised the question of what would happen to Mideast peace prospects if the 77-year-old leader is incapacitated.
The NSA first began to conduct warrantless eavesdropping on telephone calls and e-mail messages between the US and Afghanistan months before President Bush officially authorized a broader version of the agency's special domestic collection progra
It would be "wholly imprudent" for the Supreme Court to hear Jose Padilla's challenge to his military detention as an enemy combatant, the Bush administration told the court in urging the justices to dismiss Mr. Padilla's case as mo
"In clandestine parlance, Lincoln Group was a 'cutout' — a third party — that would provide the military with plausible deniability," said a former Lincoln Group employee who worked on the operation. "To attribute products to [
Sheehan pulls absolutely no punches in deeming the president and his top aides war criminals, liars, murderers, cowards, and morally corrupt political figures. As she reminds us, all they offer to justify the blood on their hands is smoke and mirrors
Colombia slammed the United States for interfering in the country's internal affairs after U.S. Ambassador William Wood said he was worried that far-right paramilitaries may interfere in upcoming elections.
Lawyers for a former pupil at a top British independent school have accused the government of colluding with the CIA to send him to a series of prisons where he was abused. Bisher al-Rawi, a former student at Millfield now being held at Guantanamo
Shades of Bush: Spymasters warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed at the London Tube.
"Law enforcement traditionally has been supported when they use deadly force based on their belief that someone has a weapon," said Brian Tannebaum, FLA Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "No charges will be filed — you can put all yo
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the US will have a military presence in Iraq for years. And "the fact that we have procedures in place that would deal with people responsible for terrorist activities that is called rendition is
According to Deliso's two sources, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, the outing of Valerie Plame may have severely damaged a CIA operation to monitor a nuclear black market faciliated by the shadowy but well-
James Bamford, author of two books on the National Security Agency, said "I didn't hear him specify any legal right, except his right as president, which in a democracy doesn't make much sense. What Bush said is he went around the law, w
