Enough of Bush and Co.'s babble about prosperity
Let's look at our economy by the numbers
Also in this issue
- The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress
- ALITO STRIKES
- CORPORATIZING THE BORDER
- ATTACK BY THE CORPORATE FOXES
- HOW STRANGE IS RICK SANTORUM?
- NEW GUY, SAME BAD POLICY
- BUSH LAWYERS
- THE GOP'S XENOPHOBIC GOOFINESS
- POSTER: Are you better off yet?
- SOURCES for July 2006 issue
Here they come--America's Drill Team! Out front are the two high-strutting leaders, John McCain and George W, thrusting their drum-major batons and chanting "Drill! Drill! Drill!" Right behind them are the famous Marching Lobbyists of Big Oil, and--look!--prancing alongside are House minority leader John Boehner and the Merry Pranksters of the Republican caucus, doing a precision routine of call and response
BUSH LAWYERS
Early this year, Representative Maurice Hinchey asked the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility to examine who in the department has actually authorized Bush's domestic spy program and why. We now know that top-ranking officials at Justice had refused the White House request for them to rubber-stamp such obviously illegal spying. So... who signed the authorization?
It was a straightforward and important question. "We are not asking for top-secret information," Hinchey noted. Yet only four months after beginning its probe, the OPR sent a fax to Hinchey saying that it was abruptly closing the inquiry.
Why? Because unnamed lawyers from higher up had ruled that OPR's investigators could not have security clearances for questioning any aspect of the spy program. "Without these clearances," wrote an OPR official, "we cannot investigate this matter."
In short, the very Bushites who excused themselves from obeying the law and the Constitution have now excused themselves from answering any questions about it. Hinchey's number is 202-225-6335.