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  • Former White House Official Arrested
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MARK SHERMAN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Bush administration official was arrested Monday on charges he made false statements and obstructed a federal investigation into his dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to court documents and government officials.
    David Safavian, then-chief of staff of the General Services Administration and a former Abramoff lobbying associate, concealed from federal investigators that Abramoff was seeking to do business with GSA when Safavian (…)

  • Bush Official Arrested in Corruption Probe
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By R. Jeffrey Smith and Susan Schmidt
    The Bush administration’s top federal procurement official resigned Friday and was arrested yesterday, accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s dealings with the federal government. It was the first criminal complaint filed against a government official in the ongoing corruption probe related to Abramoff’s activities in Washington.
    The complaint, filed by the FBI, alleges that David H. (…)

  • Too Much of a Mystery
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New York Times | Editorial
    John Roberts failed to live up to the worst fears of his critics in his confirmation hearings last week. But in many important areas where senators wanted to be reassured that he would be a careful guardian of Americans’ rights, he refused to give any solid indication of his legal approach. That makes it difficult to decide whether he should be confirmed. Weighing the pluses and minuses and the many, many unanswered questions, and considering some of the (…)

  • WHICH GOD ARE YOU UNDER?
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNDER WHICH GOD?
    By Peter Fredson
    September 15, 2005
    Today a federal judge declared that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with the inclusion of the words “Under God” in public schools is unconstitutional, a decision that could lead to a heated round of Supreme Court arguments and endless acrimonious debate among True Believers and non-Christian believers or “others.”
    U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton stated that the reference in the pledge to “One Nation Under God” violates the (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina should invalidate the right of George Bush to appoint Supreme Court Justices
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is impossible for me, as it is for most Americans, to watch the horror and suffering from Hurricane Katrina and not feel physically sore, pained, bereft, empty, heartbroken. And angry.
    The Katrina tragedy should become a watershed in American politics. This was when the usually invisible people suddenly appeared in all the anguish of their lives — the impoverished, the old, the infirm, the kids and the low-wage workers with no cars, TVs or credit cards. They showed up on America’s (…)

  • On a crusade against feds, Yonkers man wants Bush arrested
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BILL HUGHES whughes@thejournalnews.com THE JOURNAL NEWS Related news from the Web Latest headlines by topic: • Second Circuit Court of Appeals • Personal Finance • Social Security • George Bush • US News
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    YONKERS - Until last week, all Frank Langella wanted was his day in court, a chance to have a jury hear his case against the U.S. government, with President Bush named as the lead defendant.
    Now the 73-year-old (…)

  • U.S. Patriot Act faces legal challenge in Connecticut
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (Reuters) - A controversial clause in the U.S. Patriot Act that allows authorities to search citizens’ personal records faced its first public challenge in federal court on Wednesday as a library sought to lift a gag order on a FBI probe into its records.
    The case stems from an FBI request for records of a library patron without identifying the threat posed by the person, said an attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union, representing the unidentified (…)

  • Open Letter to The Attorney General of the United States of America
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Alberto Gonzales,
    Attorney General of the United States of America
    According to the information supplied by the International Press, on August 9, 2005, the Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Atlanta declared null and void the decision passed in Miami which had condemned Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, René González Sehwerert, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernando González Llort for infiltrating the extremist Cuban American groups in the south of (…)

  • Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On November 30 2004 Gail Davidson, co-chair of Lawyers against the War (LAW), filed an Informational Brief in the Provincial Court of B.C. charging George W. Bush as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces with torture.
    When Davidson went to court on December 6th to secure a date for a process hearing, the Attorney General applied to declare the information a nullity on the grounds that, as head of state, Mr. Bush was immune from prosecution. In an (…)

  • On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
    by Doug Linder
    Sacco and Vanzetti: for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions surrounding their 1921 trial for the murders of a paymaster and his guard bitterly divided a nation. As the two convicted men and their supporters struggled on through appellate courts and clemency petitions to avoid the electric chair, public interest in their case continued to grow. As the end drew near, in August (…)