Home > Keywords > Right > Justice

Justice

  • In the Name of Justice
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    by Monica Benderman
    Kevin Benderman sits in jail. An injustice. He did not want to go. He did not take his stand, break a law and dare the courts to put him in jail with a stiff sentence. Kevin Benderman put his principles on the line and dared to trust that his rights would be respected as the constitution he fought to defend demands.
    Kevin Benderman did everything he could to demonstrate to the military, and to the world, that he did not want to go to jail, by consistently (…)

  • What the ’Shield’ Covered Up
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    By E. J. Dionne Jr.
    Has anyone noticed that the coverup worked?
    In his impressive presentation of the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby last week, Patrick Fitzgerald expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005."
    Note the significance of the two dates: October 2004, before President Bush was reelected, and October 2005, after the president was reelected. Those dates make (…)

  • Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with High Court Nomination of Right-Wing Activist Alito
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    PFAW will wage massive national effort to defeat nominee who would dramatically shift balance of Court WASHINGTON - October 31 - President Bush put the demands of his far-right political base above Americans’ constitutional rights and legal protections by nominating federal appeals court Judge Samuel Alito to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, said People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas. “Right-wing leaders vetoed Miers because she failed their (…)

  • Aziz denies naming British MP in oil probe
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    12 comments

    Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz has denied telling investigators that a maverick British lawmaker personally profited from the United Nations’ oil-for-food program for Iraq.
    By Reuters
    US congressional investigators said this week they had evidence that George Galloway had profited from the defunct UN program created to protect Iraqis from the harsh effects of sanctions against their Government.
    The report said Mr Aziz, under questioning by the subcommittee, said he had (…)

  • Libby: The War Party’s Kamikaze
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Why did Scooter lie - and so badly?
    by Justin Raimondo
    "It’s not over."
    Out of Fitzgerald’s hour-long press conference, these three words had the most resonance. Before we get into that, however, let’s look at the man who has come out from behind the screen of this very closely-held investigation.
    Fitzgerald’s debut at the press conference put on display a character who might have been imagined by a novelist. He seems to embody the principle of justice: the clear concise nature of (…)

  • Indicting America
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    By Scott Ritter
    The indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby by Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald provides the most cogent and visible evidence to date of the criminal mindset that exists inside the Bush administration regarding the decision to invade Iraq.
    The indictment is linked to Libby’s involvement in illegally revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative, Valerie Plame, in violation of U.S. law, and the resultant conspiracy to deny and cover up the fact that this crime (…)

  • ’Official A’ Stands Out in Indictment
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PETE YOST
    WASHINGTON - In a sign of the trouble lingering for the Bush administration, the indictment handed up Friday in the CIA leak probe refers to someone at the White House known as "Official A."
    The unidentified official could become a courtroom witness against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who left his job as vice presidential aide shortly after his indictment on charges of obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury.
    Several other unnamed officials mentioned in (…)

  • Clumsy forgeries, Italian style
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gordon Prather
    The March 2005 report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction contained a scathing chapter on the "intelligence" President Bush used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom:
    As war loomed, the U.S. intelligence community was charged with telling policy-makers what it knew about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. The community’s best assessments were set out in an October 2002 (…)

  • It’s not about Libby, It’s whether the Bush administration lied to the American people
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    The major question in the matter of Valerie Plame is not whether the vice president’s chief of staff lied to a grand jury.
    It’s whether the Bush administration lied to the American people in justifying the invasion of Iraq and then tried to intimidate its critics.
    Friday, a grand jury indicted I. Lewis Scooter’’ Libby Jr. on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements. The indictments followed a two-year investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald.
    All (…)

  • Fitzgerald expanded scope of inquiry in 2004 to probe Niger forgeries
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    By Jason Leopold
    The special prosecutor investigating the outing of a covert CIA agent expanded his probe last year to include intelligence information used by the Bush administration claiming that Iraq tried to purchase yellow-cake uranium from Niger.
    According to a court filing posted on the website of Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating who leaked the name of undercover CIA agent to reporters, was interested in questioning New York Times reporter Judith Miller (…)