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Senate Approves Disabled Rights Bill

added on 2009-07-01 09:31:26 (Washington Post - Politics)
Amid rare displays of personal emotion, the Senate gave final approval yesterday to landmark legislation barring discrimination against an estimated 43 million Americans with physical and mental disabilities and sent the bill to President Bush, who is expected to sign it. ...more.

Records Indicate Tension Between Agency's Fired IG and Officials

added on 2009-07-01 09:31:15 (Washington Post - Politics)
Documents delivered to lawmakers this week expose a frequently confrontational and petty relationship over the past several years between Gerald Walpin and officials at the Corporation for National and Community Service. President Obama fired the Bush appointee last month, citing a lack of... ...more.

Justice Dept. Wants Release of CIA Detainee Report Delayed

added on 2009-06-27 06:30:58 (Washington Post - Politics)
Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge yesterday that the disclosure of a hotly anticipated 2004 report by the CIA inspector general on the Bush administration's interrogation program for terrorism suspects will be delayed until shortly before the July 4 holiday weekend. ...more.

added on 2009-06-25 16:31:12 (Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis)
Stratfor surprised its clients with an analytical note in 2004, which said that the Bush administration addressed to the Kremlin with a suggestion to dispatch a considerable military contingent to Iraq or Afghanistan. The sources of the agency close to Russia’s Security Council said that then-President Putin accepted the offer from the White House and even ordered the General Headquarters to prepare the plan of the operation by the end of July 2004. Absurd? But this is exactly what Stratfor sells ...more.

Administration Kills Bush Program to Give Police Access to Spy Satellite Data

added on 2009-06-24 10:02:00 (Washington Post - Politics)
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday that she will kill a controversial Bush administration program to expand the use of spy satellites by domestic law enforcement and other agencies. ...more.

U.S. Pursues a New Way To Rebuild in Afghanistan

added on 2009-06-19 07:00:58 (Washington Post - Politics)
The idea to transform a vacant tract near the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif into a sprawling commercial farm, with miles of strawberry fields and thousands of cashmere goats, began with an entreaty from President George W. Bush to the billionaire chairman of Dole Foods at a 2006 Republican Party... ...more.

Report on Bush Interrogation Policy 'Weeks' From Release, Holder Says

added on 2009-06-18 07:01:01 (Washington Post - Politics)
A Justice Department report focusing on possible ethics violations by Bush administration lawyers who approved waterboarding of terrorism suspects is still "a matter of weeks" from release, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told lawmakers yesterday. ...more.

A tale of two academics (part I)

added on 2009-06-17 10:01:23 (Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis)
Perhaps the most disturbing ability of human beings is the ability to rationalize anything. And this ability tends to rise in conjunction with the level of irresponsibility or stupidity an individual is attempting to justify. Evidence of this reality has been painfully clear in America since the start of the new millennium, which ominously began with the coup of 2000, and the illegal occupancy of the White House by George W. Bush and his inept, deceitful, corrupt cabal of warmongers. ...more.

U.S. Urges New Look at State-Secrets Case

added on 2009-06-13 07:01:01 (Washington Post - Politics)
The Obama administration yesterday petitioned a full federal appeals court to hear its argument that it should not have to reveal details of the CIA's "black site" prison program, adopting an expansive position that activists say would prevent victims of rendition in the Bush years from having their... ...more.

Report Faults Bush Officials Over Utah Land Auction

added on 2009-06-12 06:31:00 (Washington Post - Politics)
A new report from the Department of the Interior says that Bush administration officials did not follow longstanding practices when they auctioned off 77 parcels of Utah land for oil and gas drilling while keeping the National Park Service in the dark about potential drilling near park land. ...more.
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