Sunday, June 03, 2007

Sunday Late-Night Reader

  • DOJ Probes Turn to Civil Rights Division | LegalTimes.com:
    The Civil Rights Division has emerged as the latest lightning rod for allegations that the Justice Department has become politicized during the Bush administration.
  • Congress Wants Ashcroft's Testimony | Newsweek | Isikoff:
    "The House and Senate Intelligence Committees have asked the former attorney general to testify about his role in a dramatic showdown over a controversial eavesdropping program. Will he play ball? ..."
  • White House Follows New Path To Secrecy:
    "A newly disclosed effort to keep Vice President Dick Cheney's visitor records secret is the latest White House push to make sure the public doesn't learn who has been meeting with top officials in the Bush administration.

    Over the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Cheney have directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor entry and exit logs, declaring them to be presidential records, exempt from a law requiring their disclosure to whoever asks to see them...."
  • VIDEO DOCUMENTARY: THE FUTURE OF FOOD:
    "Offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade."
  • Even the Twinkie is Made in China:
    "...So much for the great "All-American" snack food...."
  • Troops to Lieberman: "When Are We Going To Get Out Of Here?"
    "BAGHDAD, Iraq - Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five 'surge' brigades to arrive in Iraq, and he was chosen to join the Independent from Connecticut for lunch at a U.S. field base in Baghdad.

    The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.

    He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:

    'When are we going to get out of here?' ..."
  • The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence | Salon:
    "The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms -- with zero public accountability.

    More than five years into the global 'war on terror,' spying has become one of the fastest-growing private industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has kept details about its use of private contractors a closely guarded secret. Intelligence experts, and even the government itself, have warned of a critical lack of oversight for the booming intelligence business...."
  • Mr. Hardball Goes to the World Bank:
    Sarah Anderson asks: "Is a tone-deaf, name-calling, steely opportunist a good choice to lead the World Bank? The Bank's official mission, after all, is to fight global poverty, not promote US corporate interests. And after the Wolfowitz uproar, one might have expected the Bush administration to pick a more genteel and broad-minded successor to lead this global institution...."
  • US Attorney Targeted for Supporting Voting Rights:
    "At a time when GOP activists wanted US attorneys to concentrate on pursuing voter fraud cases, Heffelfinger's office was expressing deep concern about a state directive that could have the effect of discouraging Indians in Minnesota from casting ballots...."
  • Is Martial Law Coming? | The Progressive

  • Saluting Cindy Sheehan | The Progressive

  • Why I Was Fired By David Iglesias (New York Times Select)

  • Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg a New Voice on Court

  • Why Democratic Political Consultants Love the Iraq War

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