“The law is clear that the right to petition one’s government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups…,”

Periodico26 ~ By Max J. […]

Antiwar.com ~ by Elizabeth de la Vega
and Tom Engelhardt

The President’s ‘Final Jeopardy!’ Question

The president is well known for having stated, in relation to this increasingly bizarre and twisted case: “I don’t know of anyone in my administration who has leaked. If somebody did leak classified information, […]

Salon.com ~ by Tim Grieve

George W. Bush on the lessons learned in Iraq

During a talk today at Johns Hopkins University, the president of the United States was asked to share with aspiring policymakers “some wisdom or some insight” based on his experience with the “very […]

Was the war against the Taliban carried out with the fullest vigor of our military? Of course not, never a need to; the Afghans fought on the ground and we bombed with our Air Force… as you recall we bombed them out of the Stone Age (as only Christopher Hitchens could quip). The Taliban fled […]

New York Times ~ by ERIC SCHMITT
and EDWARD WONG

U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord

WASHINGTON, April 8 — An internal staff report by the United States Embassy and the military command in Baghdad provides a sobering province-by-province snapshot of Iraq’s political, economic and security situation, rating the overall […]

“For every act of violence, there is encouraging progress in Iraq that’s hard to capture on the evening news,” President Bush told a news conference March 21.

Washington Times ~ by Clarence Page

Blaming press won’t win war

Earlier, Vice President Dick Cheney complained on CBS-TV’s […]

CBS News ~ Associated Press

Rumsfeld: U.S. Losing War Of Ideas

“The enemy we face may be the most brutal in our history,” Rumsfeld said. “They currently lack only the means — not the desire — to kill, murder millions of innocent people with weapons vastly more powerful than […]

ABC News ~ By DAVID ESPO, Associated Press

House Conservatives Blast Immigration Bill

House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America’s crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement […]

Tribune Newspapers ~
By Tom Hamburger & Peter Wallsten

White House: Leak in ‘public interest’

McClellan on Friday drew a difference between the kinds of disclosures that do not threaten national security and disclosures such as the report last year that Bush had authorized warrantless wiretapping of people with suspected links to terrorist […]