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While a draft of the GOP proposed legislation sponsored by DeWine, Snowe, Graham and Hagel is not yet publicly available, some reporters have written about the substantive provisions after receiving a copy of the draft legislation. Not only does this legislation codify the existing illegal NSA program, but it creates new crimes to prevent the press from reporting on any FISA surveillance programs and Bush is the person who writes a list of the terrorists to be subjected to surveillance. (…)

Members of US Congress demand Impeachment Inquiry Globalresearch.ca
March 11, 2006
30 US Reps for Bush Impeachment Inquiry 1. APN Interviews Conyers, Swanson, and Goodman
By Matthew Cardinale, Editor, Atlanta Progressive News (March 10, 2006)
(APN) ATLANTA - 30 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has (…)

PARALLEL UNIVERSES
By Peter Fredson
March 12, 2006
Long ago I was sent as a First Sergeant with my small unit into Normandy, France. I spent several weeks living in fox-holes, tents and Nissen huts. Then the Allies broke through at St. Lo. Large German army units surrendered intact.
A colonel called me to his portable headquarters and said: “I understand you speak German.” “Yes, sir”. “Do you know army regulations?” “Yes, sir, I’m a chief administrative non-commissioned officer, so I (…)

March 11, 2006 — Llewellyn King’s consummate Washington insider newsletter, White House Weekly, never disappoints when it comes to straight and unvarnished reporting from the White House Press Pool. In the March 8, 2006 issue, the press pool reporter describes an account of what happened when the White House press plane touched down to refuel at Shannon Airport in Ireland on its way back to Washington after Bush’s recent trip to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Upon deplaning and repairing (…)

original link March 11, 2006 Judge Issues Secret Ruling in Case of 2 at Mosque By JULIA PRESTON A federal judge issued a highly unusual classified ruling yesterday, denying a motion for dismissal of a case against two leaders of an Albany mosque who are accused of laundering money in a federal terrorism sting operation.
Because the ruling was classified, the defense lawyers were barred from reading why the judge decided that way.
The defense (…)

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticl... http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm... Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic claimed the day before he was found dead that he was being poisoned.
However, Milosevic’s lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, said that his client had feared that he might be (…)

Clinging desperately by their fingernails to the edge of the Bush/Cheney abyss, about 37% of the American electorate still profess their loyalty to the GOP, and especially and specifically to the current administration.
This is no easy task for them anymore,but you’ve got to give them credit for trying. The basic rationale given by these steadfast but dedicated individuals is that George Bush has "kept us safe",this despite the obvious and often mentioned weakness of our port security (…)

Kucinich: Port Deal Not Dead; Introduces A Resolution To Obtain Documents And Force Congressional Oversight Congress Must Act To Prevent Similar Deals In The Future
WASHINGTON - March 10 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), Ranking Member of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today, introduced a rarely used Congressional procedure called a Resolution of Inquiry to demand documents from the Administration about (…)

http://cpt.org/iraq/response/06-10-03statement.htm CPT Release: CPT Release: We Mourn the Loss of Tom Fox
10 March 2006
In grief we tremble before God who wraps us with compassion. The death of our beloved colleague and friend pierces us with pain. Tom Fox’s body was found in Baghdad yesterday.
Christian Peacemaker Teams extends our deep and heartfelt condolences to the family and community of Tom Fox, with whom we have traveled so closely in these days of crisis.
We mourn the loss (…)

February Sunday 19th 2006 (05h00) : 10-year-old boy prisoner of Guantanamo Bay — found innocent after two years of detainment 23 comment(s). From: Eric Smith> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:10:46 +0900 To: http://www.thenation.com/outrage/in... (hyperlinks also follow story.)
You’re kidding, right? That’s it?
After holding Brits in our extralegal dungeons for two years, one day we just let ’em go?
We’ve still got more than 600 people imprisoned in our Halliburton-built prison camp (…)