20 Jul
Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now
July 18, 2008
By Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
Retired General Antonio Taguba, the officer who led the Army’s investigation into Abu Ghraib, recently wrote in the preface to the new report, Broken laws, Broken Lives:
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16 May
All the President’s Nazis: An Open Letter to Bush
May 15, 2008
by Larisa Alexandrovna
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Dear Mr. Bush,
Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in order to […]
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15 Mar
By Christopher Kuttruff
March 11, 2008
On Monday, House Democrats filed a lawsuit against former White House counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten, after Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused last week to enforce Congressional subpoenas.
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10 Mar
Richard Duffee
David Swanson
March 10, 2008
“The Nixon Flooding Plan” and David Swanson’s article: Kucinich resolution to impeach Cheney now has more cosponsors signed onto it than any resolution to impeach Nixon. Dennis Kucinich has now written 50 articles of impeachment against Bush.
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09 Mar
By Robert Wexler
March 8, 2008
Two weeks ago, the House took a bold step demanding accountability for the Bush/Cheney Administration by holding former White House Council Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten in Contempt of Congress for blatantly ignoring congressional subpoenas for over 8 months.
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01 Mar
February 29, 2008
Mukasey Refuses to Prosecute Bush Aides for Contempt, Pelosi and Conyers Press On
By Jason Leopold
As expected, Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer congressional contempt citations against President Bush’s Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and the president’s former counsel, Harriet Miers, to a federal grand jury claiming that the officials […]
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14 Feb
Today, thanks in great part to your advocacy and persistence, the House of Representatives took a major, tangible step towards holding the Bush Administration accountable.
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09 Feb
Feb 8, 2008
By David Swanson
On Thursday, Chairman John Conyers’ House Judiciary Committee held a hearing at which Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that he would not investigate torture (video here) or warrantless spying (video here), he would not enforce contempt citations (video here), and he would treat Justice Department opinions as providing immunity for crimes […]
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10 Aug
August 8, 2007 by Dave Lindorff
For the past year, as the impeachable crimes of President Bush and Vice President Cheney have mounted, Democratic members of Congress have scrambled to present a whole array of explanations for why they can’t support impeachment.
Chief among these has been the argument that “we don’t have the votes to convict” […]
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31 Jul
House Democrats to seek impeachment inquiry for Gonzales
By MATTHEW DALY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERWASHINGTON — Some Democratic House members - including several former prosecutors - said Monday they will seek a measure directing the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., who was a prosecutor in Washington state in […]
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