Bush Says He's Above the Law Again

t r u t h o u t | 03.24

Bush Says He's Above the Law Again

Fri Mar 24, 2006 13:38

t r u t h o u t | 03.24

Bush Says He's Above the Law Again
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406J.shtml
When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers.

E.J. Dionne Jr. | In Charge, Except They're Not
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406K.shtml
E.J. Dionne Jr. writes: Hold on: The president of the United States runs the "big government" he's attacking. This is mysterious. If Bush's "good, hardworking people" aren't responsible for the problem, the villains of the piece must be alien creatures created by some strange beast called Big Government.

Barbara Bush's Katrina Donation to Enrich Her Son
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406L.shtml
Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.

Walter Cronkite | Documentary Sends Warning to Congress
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406M.shtml
Walter Cronkite writes: Not unlike the Vietnam quagmire on which I reported in 1968, we are today presented with the Iraq quagmire. The threat of world communism has been replaced by international terror as a pretext for another misbegotten and mismanaged war, but the falsehoods, broken promises and withering national faith are too familiar.

Specter Lashes Out at Bush Eavesdropping
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406N.shtml
A vocal Republican critic of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program will preside over Senate efforts to write the program into law, but he was pessimistic Wednesday that the White House wanted to listen.

New York Times | Secretary of Homeland Insecurity
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032406O.shtml
The editors of the New York Times write: Mr. Chertoff did not chastise the industry for failing to protect their plants adequately. He proposed weak federal safety standards. He did not even fully embrace a recently-introduced bipartisan Senate bill that would create meaningful standards.

Levees May Not Protect All New Orleans
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Mayor Ray Nagin said on Thursday he is confident that $770 million of levee repairs will protect most of New Orleans this hurricane season, but officials warned another Katrina-strength storm could swamp low-lying areas again.

VIDEO SPECIAL | Latino March for Peace
A Film by Scott Galindez and Ted Sapphire
http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm
On March 12, 2006, Fernando Suarez del Solar and Pablo Paredes started a march with a coalition of the willing across 240+ miles in a quest for peace that aims at raising the Latino voice of opposition to the war in Iraq. The March will run from Tijuana, Mexico, all the way to the mission district of San Francisco, making strategic, symbolic and ceremonial stops along the way. The 241-mile march is inspired by Gandhi's 1930 Salt March protesting British imperialism and will serve as a loud cry for an end to the bloodshed in Iraq.

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