Hell he already taps our phones, why not everything else? The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned. That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a […]
Next week the House will hold hearings on the firing of federal prosecutors. John Conyers issued the first subpoenas since the Democrats took over in this case. He subpoenaed the fired prosecutors to testify before the Judiciary Committee, which Conyers chairs. It has also come out now that Heather Wilson and Pete Domenci were the […]
While Senate Democrats tip-toe around Feingold’s censure resolution, a group of Democrats in the House are taking action: 32 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 learned. Their […]
Bush is down to a 37% approval rating in the latest poll released byCBS and the New York Times. 7 out of 10 respondents also are concerned the deficit will grow by the end of Bush’s Presidency. It will be interesting to see what the numbers do next week after the State of the Union […]
Some quick sound clips from this morning’s hearings on the NSA spying conducted by house Democrats. First it should be noted that the Republicans have once again forced the Democrats to hold the hearings in the basement. They said no committee rooms were available and as John Conyers pointed out, “it is odd for them […]
The PDA (Progressive Democrats of America) have an action going on to support Rep. Conyers motions. The link is on the left under “Get Active” it is not fully up yet but should be very soon. The action will ask you for your address then find your Representative and give you a form letter that […]
CensureBush.org has been launched in conjunction with afterdowningstreet.org to support new legislation introduced to the House today to censure President Bush and Vice-President Cheney when it comes to the pre-war intelligence on Iraq. It also supports legislation which was also introduced to set up a committee to investigate rather or not impeachable offenses were committed […]
The finger pointing has begun and today Michael Brown pointed it right at the Louisiana officials. This should come as no shock as he is out to protect his new job as FEMA’s consultant into what went wrong. An interesting turn of events if being reported on Capital Buzz, which is reporting that Brown may […]
It has been almost a week since the rumors started surfacing on the internet that Karl Rove is indeed the person who ousted former CIA agent Valerie Plame. Ironically this was not questioned once this week at any of the White House press briefings. The silence could only be a sign of keeping a lid […]
It had some of the atmospheric sense of the hearings that Rep. Conyers held on the Downing Street Memo. The only difference this time is that it was not being held in a basement room of the Capital. It was being held in an actual chamber of Congress. The hearing was however, only attended by […]