Bush removal ended Guam investigation US attorney’s demotion halted probe of lobbyist
By Walter F. Roche Jr., Los Angeles Times | August 8, 2005
WASHINGTON — A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.
The previously undisclosed Guam inquiry is separate from a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia that is (...)
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Bush’s personal favor for Abramoff: demoted Investigator, halted probe in 2002
19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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Sen. Harry Reid: DC "Overrun by Organized Crime"
17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsBy SEN. HARRY REID
In 1977, I was appointed chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. It was a difficult time for the gaming industry and Las Vegas, which were being overrun by organized crime. To that point in my life, I had served in the Nevada Assembly and even as lieutenant governor, but nothing prepared me for my fight with the mob.
Over the next few years, there would be threats on my life, bribes, FBI stings and even a car bomb placed in my family’s station wagon. It was a (...) -
Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"
15 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsBush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors" by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 03:27:26 PM NZDT
Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events including political conventions and the Olympics." Secret Service would also be (...) -
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide if Police Can Barge in Unannounced
14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Haider Rizvi
NEW YORK, Jan 11 (OneWorld) - Forget the ongoing privacy debate over U.S. government spying on telephone conversations—soon you may not have the right to tell cops to wait until you open your door.
In a case involving a private citizen and police authorities of the Midwestern state of Michigan, a team of civil rights lawyers appeared before the Supreme Court this week to challenge the police practice of storming into homes to look for whatever they want as evidence of a (...) -
Experts Write Congress: Bush and the NSA broke the law
10 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentDear Members of Congress:
We are scholars of constitutional law and former government officials. We write in our individual capacities as citizens concerned by the Bush Administration’s National Security Agency domestic spying program, as reported in the New York Times, and in particular to respond to the Justice Department’s December 22, 2005 letter to the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees setting forth the administration’s defense of the (...) -
The Supremes
9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
By MARY DEIBEL
To most Americans, Samuel Alito remains as much a "stealth" candidate for Supreme Court as he was the day that President Bush named him to replace the retiring Sandra Day O’Connor, the justice at the center of a deeply divided court.
But Alito’s work on the federal bench for 15 years, and as a Reagan Justice Department official before that, read large on the radar screen of the Bush White House and its outside advisers.
Since Bush tapped Alito Oct. 31, outside groups (...) -
Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do
9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
It didn’t take Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s guilty plea to three felony counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion to understand that the scale of corruption in the GOP-dominated Congress had risen to obscene heights. But it sure helps expose the cesspool of corruption in that GOP-dominated Congress.
"When this is all over, this will be bigger than [any government scandal] in the last 50 years, both in the amount of people involved and the (...) -
Despite His Demeanor, Rove’s Still a Target
4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Jason Leopold
The special prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson is trying to determine whether Deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove lied to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents about his role in the case in October 2003, attorneys close to the case said.
News reports in recent weeks have suggested that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has narrowed his criminal inquiry into whether Rove purposely failed to tell the grand jury (...) -
Justice to Try to Toss Gitmo Challenges
4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by MARK SHERMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department will seek dismissal of lawsuits from more than 300 Guantanamo Bay detainees fighting the legality of their confinement, using a new law that the Bush administration says sharply limits existing challenges. Advocates for detainees quickly registered their opposition Tuesday.
The measure, part of the Defense Appropriations Act that President Bush signed last week, was intended to allow detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba to (...) -
New "Patriot" Act Creates American Gestapo
4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsHitler had the brownshirts- his Gestapo that went around the country taking out dissenters. The New "Patriot" Act creates a new American Gestapo: (Section 605)
There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division’. Subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security...
The new USSSUD will be in DC, but also everywhere Bush travels, or former Presidents, or heads of state, or even at events (...)