Category: US Politics
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Impeaching George Bush
I meant to link to this last week, I found it via Steve who provides his own comments here. Elizabeth Holtzman argues that George Bush has done enough in office to be impeached, and she doesn’t pull any punches: As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment of…
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Pat Robertson does it again
Hot on the heels of his ‘lets kill Chavez’ remark, Robertson has another stonker: And now Ariel Sharon, who was again a very likeable person, a delightful person to be with. I prayed with him personally. But here he is at the point of death. He was dividing God’s land, and I would say woe…
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C.I.A. Asks Criminal Inquiry Over Secret-Prison Article
As John speculated in a comment on here last week, the CIA are seeking information about the leak. Notes the NY Times: The Central Intelligence Agency has asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation to determine the source of a Washington Post article that said the agency had set up a covert prison…
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CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
Hardly surprising but doesn’t help much: The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement. The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four…
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The rogue money printers of Pyongyang
By asking for the extradition of Sean Garland, has the US government blown the lid off what looks like the biggest money laundering schemes in history? In the IHT, John Cooley writes that for the first time the US government has acknowledged that North Korea prints ‘superdollars’ to support its economy. The Federal Warrant charges:…
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Carole Coleman: I wanted to slap him
Following the publication of an article by Carole Coleman in the Sunday Times, there has been a recent upsurge in searches fo the video of the interview she did with George Bush last year. She has written a book about her time as Washington correspondent ala Mark Little. It is an interesting take on the…
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George Bush: God Made Me Do It. . .
I know that some people on the right in America forget that Bush is a fundamentalist Christian, and some even argue that having a devout Christian in the White House is a good thing. I have my doubts. Especially when you are waste high in Islamic countries. But the White House has denied he ever…
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DeLay indicted on money laundering charge
It just gets worse and worse for poor old Tom DeLay: Texas grand jury has brought a new charge of money laundering against Rep. Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader indicted last week on conspiracy charges stemming from a campaign finance probe, the congressman’s office said Monday. In a written statement, DeLay called the…
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Empty beds, empty stomachs
Gitmo, as it has become known, still remains in a sort legal limbo. I had wondered what had happened since the Supreme Court ruling in June last year, the Economist clarifies: Earlier this summer, there was talk of Guantánamo being shut down. Patrick Leahy, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called it a…
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Shattered
I have so much posting to catch up it’s not funny. I have bookmarked lots of interesting links. And so many things to read. And this DeLay story looks like it could be pretty darn funny. See Steve’s take. Looks like Roy Blunt will be the new majority leader.