Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days
By Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf / Time Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon ...
Torture Prosecution Turnaround? ...by Scott Horton
The attorney general is leaning toward appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Bush-era torture policy, sources tell Scott Horton. Inside the logic driving Eric Holder’s possible conversion. Daily Beast The Obama White House has deflected calls for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the formulation and implementation of Bush-era ...
In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush
By Michael Doyle / McClatchy WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is morphing into George W. Bush, as administration attorneys repeatedly adopt the executive-authority and national-security rationales that their Republican predecessors preferred. In courtroom battles and freedom-of-information fights from Washington, D.C., to California, Obama's legal arguments repeatedly mirror Bush's: White House ...
Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon
By Thomas M. DeFrank / New York Daily News WASHINGTON - In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby - and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn't budge. Sources close to ...
Bush uses clemency powers sparingly to the end By Michael Isikoff / Newsweek In a move that has keenly disappointed some of his strongest conservative allies, President Bush has decided not to pardon Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for his 2007 conviction in ...
Judge hits White House with preservation order
By Pete Yost WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration has been hit with a last-minute court order to preserve electronic messages, the result of long problems with the White House's e-mail system.The preservation order comes amid fears by two private groups that the White House has failed to take the ...
George W Bush could pardon spies involved in torture
By Tim Shipman / Daily Telegraph (UK) Senior intelligence officers are lobbying the outgoing president to look after the men and women who could face charges for following his orders in the war on terrorism. Many fear that Barack Obama, who has pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp ...
Bush critics get an unimpeachable forum
By Jim Abrams / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Call it the un-impeachment hearing. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Friday it insisted was not about removing President Bush from office. But critics of Bush's policies couldn't pass up the chance to charge the president with a long list of ...
Baldwin makes a call for impeachment hearings
By John Nichols / Capital Times Declaring that "there is no task more important for this Congress than to seriously consider whether our nation's leaders have violated their oath of office," Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin on Friday morning told the House Judiciary Committee, "I now firmly believe that impeachment hearings are ...
Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak
By Laurie Kellman / Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush has asserted executive privilege to prevent Attorney General Michael Mukasey from having to comply with a House panel subpoena for material on the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. A House committee chairman, meanwhile, held off on a contempt ...
Kucinich May Get Hearing On Impeachment Resolution
By Molly K. Hooper / CQ Politics The House Judiciary Committee may let anti-war Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich present his case for impeaching President Bush before the August recess, the panel’s chairman said Monday. Chairman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., said Judiciary will take a broad look at the behavior of ...
House Panel Threatens Attorney General With Contempt
CQ Politics A House panel Tuesday threatened Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey with contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena demanding FBI reports of an interview of Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s covert status. In a letter to Mukasey, Henry A. Waxman ...
Plame case documents subpoenaed
House Judiciary also asks for documents relating to other big cases. By Katie Fretland / Chicago Tribune The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over documents relating to the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity -- the case that led to the conviction of ...
House Democrats press McClellan to come back for further testimony
By Jared Allen / The Hill Scott McClellan may not be done testifying before Congress, according to House Democrats with oversight authority. At least one Democratic subcommittee chairman is already preparing to have the former White House press secretary return to the Hill for more testimony about what he saw ...
By John Bresnahan / The Politico The transformation of Scott McClellan is now officially complete. The former White House press secretary – once the bane of the left for his steadfast defense of the Bush administration – was embraced by Democrats and vilified by Republicans Friday as he testified, voluntarily, ...
Wexler: McClellan's Testimony Justifies Cheney's Impeachment
By John Bresnahan / The Politico Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), one of the most vocal opponents of the Bush administration on Capitol Hill, said Scott McClellan's book and testimony justify the beginning of impeachment hearings against Vice President Dick Cheney. During questioning of McClellan, Wexler asked the former White House ...
Ex-spokesman faults Bush for withholding facts
By Laurie Kellman / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said President Bush has lost the public's trust by failing to open up about his administration's mistakes and backtracking on a promise to tell all about the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. "This ...
McClellan Testifies on C.I.A. Leak
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former White House spokesman told Congress on Friday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted him to say that Cheney's chief of staff wasn't involved in the leak of a CIA operative's identity, an assertion that turned out to be false. Scott McClellan, Bush's ...
Mukasey Subpoenaed for Bush, Cheney Interviews in CIA Leak Case
By Seth Stern / CQ Politics A House panel issued a subpoena Monday to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey , demanding FBI reports of interviews of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s covert status. The Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s subpoena ...
FBI files of interviews with Bush, Cheney subpoenaed
By Marisa Taylor / McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - A House of Representatives committee on Monday subpoenaed records of the FBI's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's name.The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform demanded the documents ...
House panel subpoenas FBI interviews of Bush, Cheney
By Pete Yost / Associated Press WASHINGTON — A House committee issued a subpoena Monday for FBI reports from interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the CIA leak investigation.The subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the latest ...
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
Kucinich.House.gov Washington, Jun 10 - Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio In the United States House of Representatives Monday, June 9th, 2008 A Resolution INDEX Article I Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq. Article II Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the ...
McClellan to testify before House in CIA leak case
By Laurie Kellman / Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. McClellan will testify publicly and under ...
Waxman targets Cheney role in CIA leak
By Pete Yost / Associated Press WASHINGTON — A House committee chairman said Tuesday he is seeking more documents from the CIA leak probe because of significant disclosures to the FBI by Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff and new details about Cheney's role in the scandal in ...
Waxman urges FBI to release Bush, Cheney interviews in CIA leak case
The Politico House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey Tuesday to release FBI interviews of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as part of the investigation into the leak of the identity of former CIA agent Valerie Plame. ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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