Mike Isikoff’s piece in this week’s Newsweek fleshes out details related to rumors I blogged a couple of weeks back regarding the probability of future public hearings to examine Bush Administration misconduct and the possibility of legal charges being filed against outgoing officials. The former sounds likely to happen in one form or another–the latter, [...]
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Newsweek’s Mike Isikoff Fails Due Diligence
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Impetus Grows for Bush Admin Inquiry
I shared a little dirt with you earlier this week about how Senate Democrats have very recently been discussing options for holding major Congressional hearings after they re-convene in January, intending to examine the misdeeds of the Bush Administration.
Reporting by the AP and the New York Times today adds greater weight to the sense that [...]
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Dem Congress Contemplating Major Bush Hearings
A general public consensus has grown around the notion that the Bush Administration broke laws, manipulated the Constitution, abused executive privilege, and lied to the American people in order to gain public support for its own misguided policy initiatives.
From ordering the NSA to spy on American citizens, to authorizing torture (and then denying it), Bush [...]
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