Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
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6/30/2008
Secret Operations Against Iran
Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request to Fund Major Escalation in Secret Operations Against Iran
Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush last year to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing Iran's leadership, according to a new article by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine.
The operations were set out in a highly classified Presidential Finding signed by Bush which, by law, must be made known to Democratic and Republican leaders.
The plan allowed up to $400 million in covert spending for activities ranging from supporting dissident groups to spying on Iran's nuclear program.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/30/hersh_congress_agreed_to_bush_request
Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush last year to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing Iran's leadership, according to a new article by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine.
The operations were set out in a highly classified Presidential Finding signed by Bush which, by law, must be made known to Democratic and Republican leaders.
The plan allowed up to $400 million in covert spending for activities ranging from supporting dissident groups to spying on Iran's nuclear program.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/30/hersh_congress_agreed_to_bush_request
6/24/2008
Sen. Feingold on Telecom Spy Bill
"One of the Greatest Intrusions, Potentially, on the Rights of AmericansProtected Under the 4th Amendment" - Sen. Feingold Blasts Telecom Spy Bill
It's being described as the most significant revision of the nation's surveillance law in three decades. The Senate is preparing to vote on rewriting the nation's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and giving immunity to phone companies involved in President Bush's secret domestic spy program. We speak with Senator Russ Feingold (DWI), who has been the leading congressional voice against the Bush administration's warrantless spy program since it was exposed nearly three years ago. Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/24/feingold
It's being described as the most significant revision of the nation's surveillance law in three decades. The Senate is preparing to vote on rewriting the nation's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and giving immunity to phone companies involved in President Bush's secret domestic spy program. We speak with Senator Russ Feingold (DWI), who has been the leading congressional voice against the Bush administration's warrantless spy program since it was exposed nearly three years ago. Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/24/feingold
5/26/2007
Privatizing Iraqi Oil for US Corporations
What Congress Really Approved: Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq's Oil for US Companies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607Z.shtml
Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright says the supplemental bill Congress passed to continue funding the Iraq war is really about "stealing Iraq's oil - the second largest reserves in the world. The "benchmark," or goal, the Bush administration has been working on furiously since the US invaded Iraq is privatization of Iraq's oil. Now they have Congress blackmailing the Iraqi Parliament and the Iraqi people: no privatizationof Iraqi oil, no reconstruction funds."
VIDEO Keith Olbermann: The Entire Government Has Failed Us on Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052407A.shtml
Keith Olbermann presents a special comment on betrayal saying, "For thepresident - and the majority leaders and candidates and rank-and-file congressmen and senators of either party - there is only blame for this shameful and bi-partisan betrayal."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607Z.shtml
Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright says the supplemental bill Congress passed to continue funding the Iraq war is really about "stealing Iraq's oil - the second largest reserves in the world. The "benchmark," or goal, the Bush administration has been working on furiously since the US invaded Iraq is privatization of Iraq's oil. Now they have Congress blackmailing the Iraqi Parliament and the Iraqi people: no privatizationof Iraqi oil, no reconstruction funds."
VIDEO Keith Olbermann: The Entire Government Has Failed Us on Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052407A.shtml
Keith Olbermann presents a special comment on betrayal saying, "For thepresident - and the majority leaders and candidates and rank-and-file congressmen and senators of either party - there is only blame for this shameful and bi-partisan betrayal."
4/05/2007
Conservative--Really
William Fisher The Right Seeks to Rein In Presidential Power
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040407J.shtml
William Fisher conducts an exclusive Truthout interview with Bruce Fein, who served as associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and is a founder of a conservative movement known as the Liberty Coalition.
The Coalition has launched a new initiative known as the American Freedom Agenda, in which leading voices in the conservative movement are demanding that the Democrat-controlled Congress restore checks and balances within the government and rein in the power of President George W. Bush.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040407J.shtml
William Fisher conducts an exclusive Truthout interview with Bruce Fein, who served as associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and is a founder of a conservative movement known as the Liberty Coalition.
The Coalition has launched a new initiative known as the American Freedom Agenda, in which leading voices in the conservative movement are demanding that the Democrat-controlled Congress restore checks and balances within the government and rein in the power of President George W. Bush.
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