Bush
pardons 14 and commutes 2 prison sentences
Non-political offences ranging from tax fraud to
selling dope pardoned
By Deb Riechmann
Associated Press, November 25, 2008
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| Bush's
first round of pardons included no high-profile
personalities, only people who had been convicted
of drug, environmental, animal endangerment,
tax and fraud, according to the DOJ..
Source: AFP |
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush has
granted pardons to 14 individuals and commuted the
prison sentences of two others convicted of misdeeds
ranging from drug offenses to tax evasion, from
wildlife violations to bank embezzlement, The Associated
Press learned Monday. The new round of White House
pardons are Bush's first since March and come less
than two months before he will end his presidency.
The crimes committed by those on the list also include
offenses involving hazardous waste, food stamps,
and the theft of government property. Bush has been
stingy during his time in office about handing out
such reprieves. Including these actions, he has
granted a total of 171 and eight commutations. That's
less than half as many as Presidents Clinton or
Reagan issued during their time in office. Both
were two-term presidents. more
Broken
Treaties
Anti-torture event denounces Bush administration's
policies
By Dennis Taylor
Monterey County Herald, November 24, 2008
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| Participants
in the anti-torture teach-in and vigil at
Pvt. Bolio Road near the Defense Language
Institute in Monterey wave at passersby on
Saturday.
Source: Orville Myers,
The Herald |
Newly elected State Assemblyman Bill Monning expressed
optimism Saturday that President-elect Barack Obama
will honor his stated commitment to close the military
prison at Guantanamo Bay. And, Monning is hopeful
Obama will enforce the domestic and international
laws that he said have been ignored by the Bush-Cheney
administration. more
See Article I.5 Promoting
Illegal Torture
News Archive:
Guantanamo Detainees
to be Freed
The Impeachinator:
Watchdog Fein
Cheney indicted for prison profiteering in Texas
Top judge: US and UK acted
as 'vigilantes' in Iraq invasion
Convicted Felons
to Prez Bush: ‘I Beg Your Pardon’
New boss to close
Guantanamo Bay when he takes office
European Governments Asked to Help US Close Guantanamo
Karl Rove's Executive
Privilege May Vanish on January 20, 2009
Bush officials
moving fast to cut environmental protections
Destroying the
environment is also a war crime
Georgia relied on
cluster bombs during war
George Bush keeps a
low profile on election day
Judge Orders White House
to Produce Wiretap Memo
A Last Push To Deregulate:
White House to Ease Many Rules
Sign Your
Life Away: The Problem with Signing Statements
War court judge:
Threats to family is torture
Syria condemns 'US
village raid'
ACLU Monitoring Unconstitutional
Guantanamo Military Commissions This Week
Judges: 'US government backing allegations it tortured British
Guantanamo detainee'
Bush Administration
Pushes For Pre-Emption
US Court Blocks
Release of Chinese Muslims From Guantanamo
Bush chooses to
keep Guantánamo open, officials say
Watchdog Group
Takes On Telecom Immunity Law
ACLU Says Recent NSA
Spying Allegations Bolster its Lawsuit Against FISA Bill
U.S. Army Brigade
On Call for Domestic Emergencies
U.S. tapped intimate
calls from Americans overseas, 2 eavesdroppers say
Homeland Security’s
Space-Based Spying Goes Live
New Documents Reveal
Unlawful Guantanamo Procedures Were Also Applied On American
Soil
Judge: Let Chinese
Muslims from Guantanamo into US
British commander
in Afghanistan: U.S. anti-Taliban plan "doomed to fail"
Bush Knows his
Commutation of Libby will be part of his Legacy
Still time to Impeach
President Bush
Investigating 'Africa's
Guantanamo'
Complete investigation
of U.S. attorney firings is needed
A Chinese Muslim in
Gitmo Legal Limbo
Don't forget
Torture Migration Day
Air Force Instructor Details Harsh Interrogations
Top Officials Knew
in 2002 of Harsh Interrogations
Anti-war veterans unfurl
'Arrest Bush/Cheney' banner at National Archives
Fein: Impeachable
Offenses?
On Anniversary
of Civilian Shootings by Blackwater in Iraq: Amnesty International
Calls on U.S. Government to Hold Military Contractors Accountable
DOJ Says Cheney's
Testimony in Valerie Plame Leak Classified
EFF Sues to End U.S. Domestic Spying
Attorney for Gitmo
inmate works to drum up support
CIA Snatch Trial
Goes Ahead
Cheney Linked Hussein
to Al-Qaeda, Ex-GOP House Leader Says in Book
Mr. Bush's Unitary
Executive Doctrine
Did White House ties power
pipeline approval?
Bush Secret Order
To Send Special Forces Into Pakistan
Suspected US missile
kills 12 in Pakistan: official
McDermott joins call to oust Bush
Kucinich Ramps Up Impeachment
Efforts Against Bush
Widespread cell phone location snooping by NSA?
Lawsuit to Ask That
Cheney's Papers Be Made Public
The next step is
to get Gitmo out of him
Hunger Strikers Should
Not Be Force Fed
Cheney colleague admits
bribery in Halliburton oil deals
US seeks delay in Guantanamo
detainees habeas appeal
Report Faults Handling
of Wiretap Notes
Katrina Three Years
Later
Suicide on the Brink
of Release
Conyers questions Iraq
‘forgery’
89 Afghan civilians
die in 'tragic' US air strike
CIA More Fully Denies
Deception About Iraq
White House
Signing Statements “Unsubstantiated,” Report Says
Bush guts a legal
system he had sworn to defend
Nancy Pelosi gets
Pilloried at AJU
How Tenet 'betrayed' the
CIA on Iraq
Pelosi takes Heat from Right
and Left
The Sad Saga of American
Politics
RIGHTS-US: Hamdan’s
Future Remains Unclear
Verdict is in on
Bush-style justice: Guilty
Afghan Civilian
Casualties Mount: UN
New Book Says Bush Committed
Impeachable Offense
Source: British Territory
Used for US Terrorism Interrogation
Miers and Bolten ordered
to answer congressional subpoenas
House panel recommends
citing Rove for contempt
Kucinich Gets His Day
The People, the Press
and the Case for Impeachment
U.S. Military says
Soldiers Fired on Civilians
Impeachment supporters
get dais in spotlight
Rep. Kucinich Gets
His Day to Air Impeachment Article
Letterman: 'Bush's
Administration is Clearly Guilty of War Crimes?'
Exposing Bush's
historic abuse of power
Gitmo and Habeas
Corpus
Rebuff Pelosi Passes
the Buck; Gore Let Off the Hook at Netroots Nation
Conyers plans Impeachment
Substitute
Ashcroft defends waterboarding
before House panel
Turley: Impeachment hearings
must consider evidence Bush committed crimes
Congressional Panel To
Review Kucinich’s Call to Impeach Bush
The Outlaw Presidency
Kucinich to Present
Impeachment Case to Panel
How Britain Wages
War
Kucinich to take
yet another crack at impeachment
Rabbit-Hole Justice
Bush-Cheney Crony Got
Iraq Oil Deal
Bush’s speech
disrupted by protesters
Kucinich's July
4th message: Help me restore 'rule of law in America'
ACLU seeks government's
cell-phone data
US interrogation
methods borrowed from Chinese
Arar's bid to sue U.S.
rejected again
US army blames leaders
over post-war Iraq
Bush, oil executives,
criminally liable for Iraq War, says Congressman
Key player in waterboarding
policy 'smug' under questioning
Robert Wexler breathes fire at GOP with new book
Baldwin answers call
of conscience, backs impeachment
Activists call for Impeachment
Kucinich: Taguba’s
Comments Add Weight to articles of impeachment
U.S. Says Israeli
Exercise Seemed Directed at Iran
Wexler Looking Forward
to Willing Witness in McClellan
Kucinich threatens
60 impeachment articles if Judiciary doesn’t act
Detainees Tortured
in Custody
Hastings says Bush
deserves impeachment and jail
Are efforts
to impeach President Bush warranted or a waste?
Administration
Strategy for Detention Now in Disarray
Vets deliver 23,000
Impeachment petitions to House Judiciary Chair Conyers
Misdeeds Go On Record
Kucinich Reads
Impeachment Articles
President
Weakens Oversight
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II.3 Failure to Uphold Accountability
In abrogation of his responsibility under the oath of office
to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed, by which
he agreed to act in good faith and accept responsibility for
the overall conduct of the executive branch, a duty vested in
his office alone under the Constitution, George Walker Bush,
failed to take responsibility for, investigate or discipline
those responsible for an ongoing pattern of negligence, incompetence
and malfeasance to the detriment of the lives, property, health
and fortunes of the American people. He has also procured offices
for persons who were unfit, and unworthy of them. more
The
Consequences of Failing to Impeach
And
the Three most Expensive Pieces of Paper of All Time
By Mike Zmolek
September 22, 2008
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"King Henry": Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson explains the $700 billion ask to a skeptical
Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press. "A lot of people
are saying a lot of things," said Paulson sagely.
source: NBC
|
America, you had your chance. And it’s still not too
late. Alcee Hastings said what many Democrats have said, that
he supports impeachment but that it would tear this country
apart. Did the Clinton affair rip this country apart? Why
not? Because the charges were far less serious? Or because
Republicans play dirty, and would up the stakes when called
to account? But there’s the rub, since by failing to
serve as an opposition party should, the Democrats have become
the enablers and abettors to a list of Republican crimes that
is growing too long to count. Lawlessness begets lawlessness.
Give an inch… full
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Previous Posts
D-E-N-Y-(a)bility,
That's the Veil of Secrecy
Was
it the CIA or the OSP?
August 24, 2008
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Douglas Feith: Was his Office of Special
Plans behind the alleged forgery?
source: thinkprogress.org
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The headline in yesterday’s story in the Post has to
make you pause: “CIA
More Fully Denies Deception About Iraq.”
What, were the initial denials not enough? In its statement,
the CIA felt compelled to write: “To state what should
be obvious, it is not the policy or practice of this agency
to violate American law.” Pause again. Take a step back
and stare at that one for a while and tell me what you see.
I mean, why should the CIA, an agency with a strong track
record of law breaking, feel compelled to respond to allegations
of forgery and fraud with such a blunt denial? Is it because
when things get rough you have to resort to more blunt instruments?
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Speaker
Pelosi,
We Have Your Crime
The Revelations
in Suskind's Book make Impeachment an Imperative
August 22, 2008
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Nancy Pelosi on The View on June
28th: "If somebody had a crime..."
source: politico
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The recent revelations brought forward by author Ron Suskind—that
the White House ordered the CIA to forge the key letter that
was used to perpetuate what Bush and Cheney knew were lies
in order to sell their case for invading Iraq—provide
what is arguably the strongest evidence yet of criminal wrongdoing
on the part of Bush and Cheney. Apparently, Chairman Conyers
is taking the allegations that Suskind has brought forward
more seriously than he has taken the articles of impeachment
previously brought forward by Representatives McKinney and
Kucinich, although reports that he intends to recall the members
of the Judiciary Committee from their summer recess to go
over the evidence appear to be no more than rumors. House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated on ABC’s The View
on July 28th: “If somebody had a crime that the President
had committed, that would be a different story.” Speaker
Pelosi, we have your crime. full
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