New book uncovers how White House 'tried to hide truth of its ineptitude.'
Lieberman to Bush: Keep docs public
Lieberman to Bush: Keep docs public
Senator calls on Bush to reveal funding sources for presidential library.
Bush vetoes bill outlawing CIA waterboarding President [sic] George W. Bush on Saturday vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques. Lawmakers included the anti-torture measure in a broader bill authorizing U.S. intelligence activities
Bush Uses Signing Statement to Legalize Warrantless Searches of US Citizens' Mail By Jesse Wendel On December 20, 2007, President [sic] Bush signed routine postal legislation. In a "Signing Statement", the President claims Executive Power to search the mail of U.S. citizens inside the United States without a warrant, in direct contradiction of the bill he had just signed.
Bush Uses Signing Statement to Legalize Warrantless Searches of US Citizens' Mail By Jesse Wendel On December 20, 2007, President [sic] Bush signed routine postal legislation. In a "Signing Statement", the President claims Executive Power to search the mail of U.S. citizens inside the United States without a warrant, in direct contradiction of the bill he had just signed.
Letter Leads F.B.I. on False Trail to California After Bombing When David A. Karnes, a California lawyer, sent letters last week to members of Congress with a picture of himself standing in front of the Times Square recruiting station, he could not have imagined that days later, F.B.I. agents would swarm around his house in Los Angeles and interrogate him. But that is what happened after Mr. Karnes’s letters were briefly -- and erroneously -- linked to the bombing of the recruiting station on Thursday.
U.N. committee says poor, blacks harmed most by Katrina A United Nations treaty committee ruled Friday that the United States' response to Hurricane Katrina has had a greater negative impact on displaced black residents and called on the federal government to do more to guarantee that they can return to affordable housing in their hometowns.
US puts ships from Syria on watchlist The United States has put ships making port calls in Syria on a watchlist, an official said Thursday, as Washington ratcheted up the pressure on Damascus over its alleged links with terrorism. Syria was placed on a so-called "Port Security Advisory List" amid "concerns about the connections between Syria and international terrorist organizations," the State Department's deputy spokesman Tom Casey told reporters.
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"The President claims Executive Power to search the mail of U.S. citizens inside the United States without a warrant, in direct contradiction of the bill he had just signed."
OK, so when can I save some people some time and send a care package to D.C. of all the junk mail I get from people sending me pizza coupons, anti-parasite pills ads, aluminum siding brochures, satellite dish flyers, dozens of postcards from the Milkman, and the postcards from the Republican National Committee?
The Gerbil is free to read all of that crap.
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