February 2007

By David Swanson

At the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Bush’s use of signing statements on Wednesday, two exchanges at the end were quite revealing. Four hours into a hearing interrupted by several votes (thanks, Nancy!) the corporate media had all departed. Broadcast media never showed in the first place. Only a few bloggers and a bunch of citizens and staffers hung behind. Most of the Congress Members had left for good.

Through most of the hearing, Deputy Assistant Attorney General read more

From Tom Dispatch

At the moment, the spectacle of the I. Lewis Libby trial, of the den of thieves falling out, of the unraveling of old administration war stories, and of the possibility that, in the near future, the Vice President might appear in the witness stand for a grilling all occupy Washington’s center stage along with a restless Congress, filled with unnerved representatives of the President’s own Party, increasing numbers of whom are, by now, painfully aware that they are read more