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No Oath for Gonzales; No Law for the President?
JONATHAN TURLEY Turley is a professor of Constitutional law at George Washington University. He said today: “Alberto Gonzales has been claiming national security to avoid answering basic questions about the program. For example, when asked if he revealed information from the program to the FISA court, he refused to answer under the absurd claim that…
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Iran and IAEA
The International Atomic Energy Agency is scheduled to continue to meet this weekend on the case of Iran. The following are available for interviews: WILLIAM PEDEN Currently in Vienna at the IAEA meeting, Peden is a Greenpeace International nuclear analyst. The group has recently released a statement titled “Nukes, Iran, the UN: A Grave Mistake.”…
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Budget Cuts: Costs and Consequence
AVIS JONES-DEWEEVER Study director on poverty and income security at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Jones-DeWeever said today: “Following Hurricane Katrina, President Bush stood in New Orleans and made the strong statement that ‘we have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action.’ The budget that passed the House of Representatives last night,…
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Responses to State of the Union Address
IPA has a PDF critique of the State of the Union for public distribution here. CELESTE ZAPPALA A member of Gold Star Families Speak Out, Zappala’s eldest son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was the first Pennsylvania National Guardsman to die in combat since World War II. He was killed in action in Baghdad on April 26,…
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Assessments of the State of the Union Address
The following analysts and activists are available to critique various aspects of the State of the Union address. IPA will be producing a PDF critique of the State of the Union for public distribution by Wednesday morning, available here. FRANCES FOX PIVEN Author of the book The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush’s…
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Oil Profits
ExxonMobil announced Monday that in 2005 it made the biggest annual profit on record for a U.S. corporation — $36.13 billion — up 42 percent from the year before. The following analysts are available for interviews: STEVE KRETZMANN Executive director of Oil Change International, Kretzmann said today: “While ExxonMobil is posting $10 billion profits in…
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Scrutinizing Bush’s Claim That NSA Spying Could Stop More 9-11s
In attempting to justify the government’s use of warrantless domestic spying by the National Security Agency, Bush administration officials have argued that such surveillance would help prevent another attack comparable to 9-11. MELVIN A. GOODMAN Now a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, Goodman was with the CIA for 41 years, serving as…
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Hamas Victory
EDWARD L. PECK EUGENE BIRD Peck and Bird are on a delegation observing the Palestinian election. Peck is a former U.S. chief of mission to Iraq and was deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration. He said today: “Many are talking about Hamas’ victory without mentioning Israel. [Israeli…
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The Filibuster Option
ROBERT PARRY “With the fate of the U.S. Constitution in the balance, it’s hard to believe there’s no senator prepared to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, whose theories on the ‘unitary executive’ could spell the end of the American democratic Republic,” ConsortiumNews.com editor Parry writes in a recent article, “Alito Filibuster: It Only Takes…
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Does Gen. Hayden Know What the Fourth Amendment Says?
As part of the Bush administration’s response to the revelations of warrantless domestic spying by the National Security Agency, a former head of the NSA, Gen. Michael Hayden, now the nation’s second-ranking intelligence official, spoke Monday at the National Press Club. Gen. Hayden disputed a questioner’s statement that the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of…