Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn’t grant ‘Scooter’ Libby full pardon

In the waning days of the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney launched a last-ditch campaign to persuade his boss to pardon Lewis (Scooter) Libby – and was furious when President George W. Bush wouldn’t budge.
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Judge orders White House to produce wiretap memos

A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce White House memos that provide the legal basis for the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 warrantless wiretapping program.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. signed an order Friday requiring the department to produce the memos by the White House legal counsel’s office by Nov. 17. He said he [...]

Bush vetoes water projects bill that Congress will override

An increasingly confrontational President Bush on Friday vetoed a bill authorizing hundreds of popular water projects even though lawmakers can count enough votes to override him. Bush brushed aside significant objections from Capitol Hill, even from Republicans, in thwarting legislation that provides money for projects like repairing hurricane damage, restoring wetlands and preventing flooding in [...]

Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners

The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday.
Former President Carter says the U.S. “has abandoned the basic principle of human rights.”  ”I don’t think it. I know it,” Carter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of [...]