As long as I’m on a legal kick, what are the grounds for impeachment of a president? There are only two previous examples where impeachment has played out – Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. In both cases, the presidents were impeached by the House of Representatives, but acquitted in the Senate trial. Articles of impeacheachment […]
My knowledge of the law is less than zero, but all day, I’ve been thinking about my embryonic understanding of how the law views motive in meting out justice. I think taking a few days off from reading the shameful news out of Washington allowed me to come back to it with renewed outrage. There’s […]
And from Raw Story: Two former NSA officials familiar with the agency’s campaign to spy on U.N. members say then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice authorized the plan at the request of President Bush, who wanted to know how delegates were going to vote. Rice did not immediately return a call for comment. The former officials […]
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by […]
I suppose if you’re only going to read one more news piece in 2005, this article [and the ones it references] is where to go: N.S.A. Spied on U.N. Diplomats in Push for Invasion of Iraq Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war US plan to bug Security Council: It’s old news, […]