(Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. announced that he will be holding a full committee hearing next week titled, “The Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power for Executive Branch Officials.” The hearing will be held next Wednesday, July 11, at 10:15 am in the committee’s hearing room, 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.
“In light of yesterday’s announcement by the President that he was commuting the prison sentence for Scooter Libby, it is (…)
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Judiciary Committee Schedules Hearing on Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power
10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Cheney “Fixes” Libby, Cons America and Thwarts Justice
8 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
“It is time to remove [Vice President Dick Cheney] from office.” - Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)
Eureka Springs, Arkansas - Lewis “Scooter” Libby is not going to a federal prison for 30 months, or even for one day. His boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, made sure of that. U.S. District Court Judge, the Hon. Reggie B. Walton, had ruled that the Neocon, a crony of another prime architect of the Iraqi War, Paul Wolfowitz, deserved serious jail time for lying to a Grand Jury and the FBI. (1) The (…) -
On the day Libby’s prison sentence was lifted, Mordechai VANUNU was sentenced to prison, again
8 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentLibby and Vanunu On the day Libby’s prison sentence was lifted, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to prison, again, in Israel
By Dr. Daniel Ellsberg
Global Research, July 6, 2007
On the day that Scooter Libby’s prison sentence was lifted by President Bush, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to prison, again, in Israel. In both cases, the underlying offense was the same: speaking to journalists. In each case, the nominal charges were otherwise. For Libby, lying under oath about the (…) -
In sparing Libby, Pres. Bush built an IED that blew up the judicial system
5 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsBy Mary MacElveen
A few years ago, I remember seeing a commercial to help stop drunk driving which said, “Friends do not let friends drive drunk” and the act of a good friend would have been to take away the keys to the car so that no one would get hurt. Most likely that commercial did save countless lives.
So when I read this statement coming from Senator Gordon Smith (R) of Oregon in which he said of President Bush, "President Bush is my friend, and I don’t always agree with my (…) -
ANOTHER MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
3 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentANOTHER MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
By Peter Fredson
July 3, 2007
It is no surprise. Everyone expected some stupid action from our Heroic Leader, and it came. Bush just commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby, before he served even one day of time. He said that poor Scooter’s sentence was “excessive”, “harsh” for outing CIA agent Valerie Wilson. His heart evidently bleeds for injustice to his cronies, although he seems to see no harsh or excessive penalties in thousands of other cases around (…) -
Vietnamese Delegation in U.S. to Sue Chemical Companies for Ongoing Effects of Agent Orange Frida
24 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Vietnamese Delegation in U.S. to Sue Chemical Companies for Ongoing Effects of Agent Orange
Friday, June 22nd, 2007 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1459211
U.S. warplanes dumped about 18 million gallons of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese government says this has left more than 3 million people disabled. We speak with two Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and their lawyers about how the toxin has affected their lives and why they’re suing over three (…) -
Who’s Denis Robert ?
19 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Denis Robert Support Committee calling all journalists.
We’re missing one thing: A massive, straight-up, protective support drive from the journalist community as a whole.
In 2006, there was a dozen of us telling ourselves: What is happening to Denis is inadmissible and frankly unbelievable! Back then, a war was being waged between Sarkozy (Minister of Home Affairs) and De Villepin (Prime Minister), and Denis’s book on the Clearstream scandal had just been banned from sale, in a (…) -
Compensation for roughed-up farmer
24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Diet Simon
A German farmer has been awarded 3,000 euros compensation for being roughed up by police during a transport of nuclear waste half a kilometre from his farm.
In November 2004 the farmer was working with his forklift near the railway line on which caskets containing the highly radioactive waste were to run to a dump in Gorleben, northern Germany.
Police yanked him brutally from his tractor and threatened him with a pistol. He was led off in handcuffs and taken to a detainee (…) -
Sarkozy adviser may stand trial for corporate espionage in Belgium
24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 comment14:09 | 21/ 05/ 2007 BRUSSELS, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s new legal adviser found himself in the unwanted media spotlight this past weekend as a business magazine said he could face trial in a long-running corporate espionage case in Belgium.
Capital weekly said Patrick Ouart, former secretary general of the French energy group Suez, could be tried for suspected involvement in illegally obtaining confidential information about Belgian subsidiary Electrabel. (…) -
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Fate Decided on Thursday May 17
17 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Audio Interview and News: Philadelphia Court Hearing Could Decide Fate of Imprisoned Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal (14:33) - “In Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s legal team is preparing for a hearing that could decide the fate of the imprisoned former Black Panther. Abu-Jamal has been on death row for 25 years after being convicted of killing a police officer following a controversial trial before a (…)