
Well, another day and another bunch of criticisms from every angle. We have the left, who criticizes Clinton for being too center, we have the right, who criticize Clinton for being too left, and we have the center criticizing Clinton because she is . . .. Wait a minute.

Source: Reuters
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accused President George W. Bush in an interview published on Tuesday of a "power grab" and said she would cede some executive powers if elected.

Source: fas.org
If foreign terrorists set out to undermine confidence in the American legal system as an arbiter of justice, they could hardly do more damage than the Bush Administration has done by its use of the "state secrets" privilege.

Source: The Nation
Listen up. Can you hear the drums beating for a third war?

Source: fff.org
Who is to blame for an imperial presidency? How did so many Americans, especially members of Congress, come to view as normal giving one public official seemingly limitless powers to plunge the nation into war? And how did Americans come to accept a foreign policy of permanent wa …

Source: LewRockwell.com
A couple of days ago I was talking to a Peruvian friend who works for a U.S.-based internet company. He was telling me about the incredible amount of bureaucracy and paperwork that he and the company have had to take care of so that he would be able to get paid.

Source: The Nation
Dick Cheney has left little doubt about the branch of government he would prefer to serve in: the monarchy.

Source: Common Dreams
Taking military action against Iran could put President Bush on a collision course with Congress, leading Democrats and a Republican lawmaker cautioned Friday following Bush's threat of unspecified consequences for alleged Iranian meddling in Iraq.

I never would have thought I would tell somebody to read a novel two or three times but due to recent events, I now think more than ever that every American should go to their local book store, purchase "1984" by George Orwell, and read it two or three times a year.

Source: AlterNet.org
The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W.

Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Facing his lowest approval ratings ever and increasing scrutiny about the secrecy with which he operates, Vice President Dick Cheney is making the media rounds this week unapologetically backing some of the White House's more controversial actions.

Source: State Department
This is accessed via a link from the state department web site and appears to show the Vice President clearly in the executive branch, or at least that is what they are telling our kids.

Source: Think Progress
in an interview with CBS News' Mark Knoller today, Cheney refused to say he was a member of the executive branch:
Mark Knoller: Are you part of the executive branch, sir?

The Code -- Media mouthpieces must not bring legal fact to the Bush political fantasy. The legal realm must be kept invisible. All emphasis is to be placed on everything being politics-as-usual.

Source: Yahoo! News
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and MoveOn.org have launched a vital campaign to put restoration of the Constitution on the agenda for Democratic presidential candidates -- just as the conservative American Freedom Agenda movement has done for Republican …

Source: Common Dreams

Source: FindLaw.com
President George Bush has issued an instruction to his former White House counsel Harriet Miers to defy the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena.

Source: shadow-media.org
A senate panel has taken exception with the claims of the Vice President claiming not to be of the Executive Branch, or an agency in the Executive Branch.

Source: The New York Times
On the stretch of land where the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Constitution drafted and the Liberty Bell first tolled, pre-Independence Day crowds peered from a wooden platform into a 10-foot-deep dirt hole that is revealing more complex notions of the nation's hi …

Source: thephoenix.com
President Bush has vacated a 1974 Supreme Court ruling made in the wake of Watergate.

Source: Guardian Unlimited
At least you can say, after the many stumblings of the Bush administration, that it was unexpected.

Source: Think Progress
In the stellar Washington Post expose on Dick Cheney, the public learned that key presidential aides were often intentionally kept out of the loop on important decisions by the Vice President.

Source: idealthoughts
With the expected White House refusal to comply with Congressional Subpoens, the Democrats and even Republicans are faced with the question of having the backbone and ability to set aside partisan politics considering the Republicans history on insisting in transperancy within th …

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
The White House also had offered a compromise in which Miers, Taylor, White House political strategist Karl Rove and their deputies would be interviewed by Judiciary Committee aides in closed-door sessions, without transcripts.

Source: The Washington Post
Dick Cheney is the most influential and powerful man ever to hold the office of vice president. This series examines Cheney's largely hidden and little-understood role in crafting policies for the War on Terror, the economy and the environment.