Bush acknowledges secret order for domestic spying President George W. Bush on Saturday acknowledged he signed a secret order after the September 11, 2001, attacks to allow the surveillance of people in the United States. In a rare live radio address, Bush defended the practice as a “vital tool” in defending the United States against […]
On a rather slow and quiet Tuesday about a month ago a hell broke loose on Capital Hill when Harry Reid shut down Senate to demand answers on the stalling of the next phase of the pre-war intelligence report. It lead to outbursts before the cameras and a new political fight. It also resulted in […]
We now have at least one republican in Senate joining the fight with Democrats to investigate the pre-war intelligence. That Senator is none other than John McCain: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has emerged as a leading opponent of the Bush administration’s policy on interrogating detainees in the war on terrorism, wants Senate investigators to […]
Rule 21 of the Senate mandates that any time an issue is to be brought up on the Senate floor that could reveal classified information that the cameras be shut off, no electronic recording devices in the room and no staffers in the room. It is done so to protect national security. That is the […]
Sunday, on CNN’s Late Edition, they made the mistake of giving Pat Robertson a larger audience again. This time he used his time in the spotlight to further taunt Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez. Robertson made two claims, which are being Venezuela’s vice-President as irrational. In the first claim, Robertson said that Chavez paid Osama Bin […]
From Political Affairs: Congressman Jim Leach (R, Iowa) has informed Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D, California) that he will co-sponsor her Resolution of Inquiry into Bush Administration communications with the U.K. about Iraq at the time of the Downing Street Memos. Leach is the first Republican member of Congress to publicly support a demand for an […]
Why is it that the Senate Intelligence Committee is holding their hearings in secret, behind close doors, debating the changes to make to the Patriot Act? Do they feel that the terrorists might keep up on it and get a heads up on what could come out of it? Nah..I don’t think so. In fact […]