Archive for the 'Rule of Law' Category
When I talk to some of my friends about the dire situation this country is in and how our democracy has been dismantled, our rights taken away, with a press that exists to anesthetize us rather than inform us, I am invariably met with the same optimistically skeptical response. “Things aren’t that bad,” “Don’t you [...]
In my post last week about FISA and the renewal of the so-called “Protect America Act” (PAA), I cited a letter from House Intelligence Committee Chair Silvestre Reyes which strongly rebutted all of the Bush Administrations false claims about its ability to track terrorists hinging on the immediate passage of the Senate version of the [...]
While most of America has been distracted by the Presidential race between Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the rest of their Senate colleagues have been working very hard to pass legislation making the Bush Administration’s illegal spying program legal, and giving immunity to the companies that the administration paid to break the law. [...]
Don Siegelman, the former Democratic Governor of Alabama, is currently serving a seven-year sentence in federal prison for alleged bribery in connection with appointing a political contributor to a position on a state board. Now, fifty-two former attorneys general, both Republicans and Democrats, are now calling for Congress to investigate this case, citing evidence that [...]
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