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Washington — House Democrats warned President Bush, top leaders of his administration and officials of the National Security Agency on Friday that if the political climate changes they could face criminal prosecution for ordering and carrying out warrantless domestic eavesdropping.
"These are clearly crimes and the statute of limitations extends beyond this president’s term,’’ which will end in January 2009, said Rep. Jerry Nadler D-N.Y., at an ad hoc hearing called by House Judiciary (…)

WASHINGTON // As the White House prepared to ratchet up its defense for the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without court warrants, a small group of House Democrats convened legal experts and advocates in a basement hearing room to poke holes in the administration’s legal rationale.
President Bush’s argument that he has executive power to authorize such surveillance "flies in the face of both common sense and legal precedent," said Rep. John Conyers Jr., the top (…)

WASHINGTON - A Democratic congressman, a prominent legal scholar and a self-described target of government surveillance urged Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee yesterday to consider impeaching President Bush for his domestic surveillance program.
The recommendation by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., law scholar Jonathan Turley and Florida-based political activist Richard Hersh emerged at an unofficial House Judiciary Committee hearing staged entirely by Democrats on the day that (…)

(Washington, DC) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) issued the following statement today at a Democratic Judiciary hearing, which questioned the legality of President Bush’s controversial domestic surveillance programs. The hearing focused on findings by the New York Times and other news sources, which have been corroborated by the Administration that President Bush authorized domestic spying on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA) without court approval. In addition, Richard (…)

WASHINGTON - House Democrats and a panel of legal experts assailed the Bush administration’s secret domestic surveillance program Friday, calling it an illegal and dangerous threat to civil liberties and a presidential power grab that has thrown the country into a constitutional crisis.
"The president of the United States is violating our nation’s laws by authorizing the National Security Agency to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens," said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the (…)

WAR CRIES
By Peter Fredson
January 23, 2006
What is appropriate to describe the onset of a war? Crossing the Rubicon, The Die is Cast, The Flight of Birds signals disaster ahead, the Oracle has Spoken, or Crying Wolf?
Certainly Greek and Roman warriors had their rhetoric, their beating of shields with swords, the symbolic flight of arrows, the chest-beating, the swaggering and strutting, the bellowing and threatening.
In that respect we have not evolved a whit. The entire stage (…)

The Senate Judiciary committee will be voting on the confirmation of Samuel Alito next week. I had not been watching the hearings or following the "Alito story" too closely, (he will most likely be confirmed by the committee), today however, the story became interesting. The democrats lashed out at Bushco and Samuel Alito. Senator Leahy came out to say he will vote no to Alito who he feels will not provide the necessary check "at a time when the president is seizing unprecedented power" (…)

PC RACISM (politically correct racism) and cowardice in US-UK-Oz academia has resulted in the mal-education of a current establishment of PC racist journalists, academics and politicians who simultaneously DENY any racism, are COMPLICIT in horrendous mass murder in Asian wars and IGNORE the horrendous, continuing passive genocide of Asians in US wars in gross contravention of the Geneva Conventions (so far there have been 2.1 million avoidable post-invasion deaths and 1.7 million (…)

When you know the truth, what will you do?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 01/22/06 — Another tape. It’s interesting that the seemingly never-ending supply of videos and audio tapes, allegedly provided by Usama bin Laden from some dark, dank cave in the mountains of Pakistan or Afghanistan, seem to arrive just in time to divert the public’s (and the media’s) attention from the really important subject of the day. This latest tape, albeit only an audio example, found its way to (…)

Rumbles from the Street: The King is Dead! Long Live the People! GNN Hawai’i January 23 2006 via Time Portal 2453756.726123
Senator Clinton & U.S. Congressional Leadership: Three cheers from the American "street" and the "outlands" of the Americas for your timely metaphor regarding Congress being run like a "PLANTATION"— by which you surely mean it has become elitist, corrupted, poisoned by paranoia, blinded by industry? All the "good old boys" with their bankrolls and silky suits (…)