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Sloan, a former congressional staff member for such liberal lawmakers as Michigan's John Conyers and New York's Charles Schumer, was working as an assistant U.S. Attorney when two Democratic activists approached her with the idea of trying something like Judicial Watch from the left. For its first 18...
Bush's Secret Spy Net It doesn't matter whether the polls show that the American people do or do not support the NSA's monitoring of Americans' phone calls [May 22]. It matters only that such actions violate the Constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment, which requires probable cause and...
In Defense of the Dems In Joe Klein's "Easy Targets for Karl Rove" [May 22], the description of Congressmen John Conyers and Charles Rangel as "embarrassments" was excessive and uncalled for. Conyers and Rangel express a clear-eyed African-American perspective gained from hard experience. Klein may not share...
Klein noted that Conyers could become chairman of the Judiciary Committee and that he has threatened impeachment hearings against President Bush. Klein said that would be a case of Democrats "emphasizing witch hunts instead of substantive policies." Impeachment might be incendiary, but it is important and necessary to discuss and...
But Democrats will have a hard time reining in everyone on this score. Senator Russ Feingold still wants to censure President Bush for his warrantless domestic surveillance program, and John Conyers wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last month that made it very clear that he still thinks...