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Oh, the VEEP - Keep an eye on the Washington Post Cheney 4-part series by Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, which will draw on interviews with 200+ people who worked for, with or in opposition to Cheney’s office.
I hope this will open some eyes.
Part I was published today.
Cheney brought a four-page text, written in [...]

How is it that the US Energy Policy is a secret?
How is it that global energy corporations, participants like Enron, and an overseeing Cheney, can produce our policy in secret, and keep it secret from the population?
How could it be that in a democracy (even a weighted representative two-party democracy such as we [...]

So this is the new America.
President Bush has now defended the cruel and humiliating treatment of detainees on national television.
Instead of accepting constitutional role of the judgment of the Supreme Court, he has proposed legislation that would retroactively legalize the sham military commissions that the Supreme Court has repudiated.
Bush wants legislation passed [...]

Republican Pete Hoekstra, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has criticized Bush for hiding more surveillance programs from Congressional oversight. The NY Times has published his criticism of Bush on this matter.
On Fox News Sunday, Hoekstra said that a whistleblower came to him with several more spying operations that were in danger of being abused [...]

People For the American Way believes that “a healthy democracy is an informed democracy,” so they have created WikiThePresidency.org to establish a single place for the public to both acquire and share information about Executive Branch wrongdoings.
It’s a Wiki, so anyone can edit the site, but there are rules. You must post factual claims (no [...]

That’s the number of laws that Bush has claimed authority to disobey.
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ”whistle-blower” protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.
Legal scholars say the scope and [...]

It has been standard modus operandi of this administration that when it doesn’t like the facts, it stops the flow of information. Here’s yet another example.
We all know that the government prints money, and regulates the amount it prints to help control some factors of our economy. Whatever your theories or ideas might be about [...]