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  • Bush rebuffs Merkel on Guantanamo
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US President George W Bush has rejected criticism over the Guantanamo Bay camp raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during talks in Washington.
    President Bush said it was a necessary part of protecting the American people.
    But the two leaders presented a united front over Iran resuming its nuclear programme, and commentators said they appeared to have got on well.
    It is her first official US visit since her election which, Mr Bush joked, much like his own, was not a landslide win. (…)

  • Watch CSPAN Monday noon January 16th - Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Monday, January 16, 2006
    Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution
    WATCH LIVE ON C-SPAN Schedule date: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:00 PM EST 1:00 (est.) LIVE peech Civil Liberties American Constitution Society Albert Gore Jr., United States The beginning and end of this live program may be earlier or later than
    the scheduled times.
    – http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:80...
    – http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetR...
    Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution (…)

  • There is irrefutable evidence that the Bush Administration has violated numerous international laws
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is a growing awareness among the chattering classes in the United States that President W. Bush may be guilty of war crimes. Democratic Congressman and ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, introduced resolutions calling for the creation of a panel to investigate Bush and Cheney’s handling of the war. Although a long way from framing articles of impeachment, it is an important first step.
    There is overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that (…)

  • Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"
    15 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors" by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 03:27:26 PM NZDT
    Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events including political conventions and the Olympics." Secret Service would also be (…)

  • You’re being watched ...Efforts to collect data on Americans go far beyond the NSA’s domestic spying program
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Laura K. Donohue
    CONGRESS WILL soon hold hearings on the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program, secretly authorized by President Bush in 2002. But that program is just the tip of the iceberg.
    Since 9/11, the expansion of efforts to gather and analyze information on U.S. citizens is nothing short of staggering. The government collects vast troves of data, including consumer credit histories and medical and travel records. Databases track Americans’ networks of friends, (…)

  • George Bush’s Rough Justice
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The career of the latest Supreme Court nominee has been marked by his hatred of liberalism
    by Sidney Blumenthal
    "If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?" "No treaty," replied John Yoo, the former justice department official who wrote the crucial memos justifying President Bush’s policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance without warrants.
    Yoo publicly debated (…)

  • MERKEL’S US TRIP : Berlin To Offer Increase in Iraq Aid
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not be heading to Washington empty handed on her inaugural visit to the White House this week. Keen to improve ties with the United States, she is reportedly going to offer to expand Berlin’s commitments to Iraq.
    George W. Bush has got to be pleased. Finally rid of that irksome Gerhard Schröder — whose staunch opposition to the war in Iraq strained trans-Atlantic ties — the United States president can look forward to a visit from a much more amicable (…)

  • Bush’s Unlikely Co-conspirators
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    At least seven House Democrats learned about the NSA’s secret spying program four years ago. So why didn’t anyone blow the whistle?
    By G. Pascal Zachary
    President Bush deserves plenty of blame for secretly authorizing domestic spying by the National Security Agency. But some of the president’s fiercest critics in Congress gave him the political cover to do so. The question why they did so says much about the nation’s brittle democracy and how Democrats have covertly joined with (…)

  • What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Dave Lindorff
    There is an bill in Congress to investigate Bush for impeachable crimes. Did you know that? If not, maybe you should be asking your local media outlets why you don’t know about it.
    Rome—There are now eight members of Congress who have put their names to a bill calling for a special committee of the House to investigate impeachable crimes by the Bush administration. To date, all of them are Democrats.
    So far, you’d be hard-pressed to know about any of this—including the (…)

  • Losing the War on Terrorism : our Incompetent Commander-in-Chief
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael T. Klare
    President Bush has lost the support of most Americans when it comes to the economy, the environment, and the war in Iraq, but he continues to enjoy majority support in one key area: his handling of the war on terrorism. Indeed, many analysts believe that Bush won the 2004 election largely because swing voters concluded that he would do a better job at this than John Kerry. In fact, with his overall opinion-poll approval ratings so low, Bush’s purported proficiency in (…)