Ten reports have gone missing. Under a federal law passed in 2008, President Barack Obama is required to nominate members of a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent office in the executive branch of the U.S. Government. Fusion Center administrators and information sharing specialists are required by law to take civil liberties [...]
House of Representatives: Homeland Security Committee, Thursday March 31, 10 AM: A hearing on US involvement in the drug war in Mexico, with updates on drug-related violence in Mexico. Judiciary Committee, Wednesday March 30, 10 AM: The Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee will be holding a hearing on the permanent surveillance provisions of the [...]
Each particular federal project might have a very small impact on climate, but when considered collectively, the likely impact of the government’s project is quite significant. Knowing where the greatest opportunity for reduction of climate impact lies could result in huge financial savings for the government, and for our society as a whole.
The Michigan-heavy sponsorship of this 1812 war oversight resolution looks like yet another symptom of a state that’s grasping at straws, looking for any tool it’s got to bring a little economic boost in these days of Motor City morbidity.
The following four Democratic members of Congress decided that accountability for Bush’s high crimes would have to be sacrificed… for the sake of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway:
John Bellinger, the legal adviser to the Department of State, will testify and be asked questions about the Bush Administration’s practice of extreme rendition, in which prisoners in United States custody are knowingly sent to be interrogated by nations that routinely use torture.
Do Christians really believe that the Bible is such an anemic piece of literature that it needs the support of a nanny government to coddle it and protect it from competing ideas? If you are among those who believe in the Christian God, do you really believe that God is weaker than the Congress of the United States of America?
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