Top Senate Democrat threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information on secretive wiretapping program
Balaji Reddy
Aug. 21, 2007

Bush Administration continues to defy the Democratic Congress in spite of repeated persuasion by the Senators and members of the Congress.

According to a media report, "When the Senate comes back in the session, I''ll bring it up before the committee," said Senator Patrick Leahy yesterday, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I prefer cooperation to contempt. Right now, there's no question that they are in contempt of the valid order of the Congress."

Leahy's committee on June 27 subpoenaed the Justice Department, National Security Council and the offices of the president and vice president for documents relating to the National Security Agency's legal justification for the wiretapping program.

Since taking over the House and the Senate in January from Bush's Republicans, Democrats have pressed a series of investigations into administration operations arguing that when the Republicans were in charge they rarely probed activities at the White House. In the United States, Congress, the legislative branch, is supposed to serve as a check on the executive branch.

Top Senate Democrat threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for not producing subpoenaed information on secretive wiretapping program
Balaji Reddy
Bush Administration continues to defy the Democratic Congress in spite of repeated persuasion by the Senators and members of the Congress.
READ MORE>>

The USS Nimitz will head back to the Bay of Bengal to participate in a joint exercise involving 25 ships from India, Australia, and Singapore
Media Release
A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier will return to India next month despite angry protests, its commander said on Monday, highlighting the closer military ties between the two nations.
READ MORE>>

President Hugo Chavez accused the United States of trying to turn Venezuela's military against him
Media Release
Chavez, a former army lieutenant colonel who survived a short-lived 2002 coup, said his domestic opponents are collaborating with the US Central Intelligence Agency to spur another putsch.
READ MORE>>

Indian scientists and engineers are capable to counter Pakistan-China nuke alliance without American alliance and technologies
Shekhar Pundit
Beijing has finalized its own version of a nuclear deal with Islamabad, in case the Indo-US nuclear agreement is okayed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
READ MORE>>

CBI found him in Sweden but not quite - war room leak case suspect goes hiding again
Sudhir Chadda
But Ravi Shankaran, a kin of former navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash who is the main accused in the war room leak case, is on the run again hiding from the Swedish Interpol authorities.
READ MORE>>

Strategic partners India and Japan will discuss the possibility of cooperation in the civil nuclear field and enhancement of defense ties
Media Release
During Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's three-day visit beginning on Tuesday, the two countries will unveil a roadmap for future ties to provide a new dimension to the 'strategic and global partnership' established last year.
READ MORE>>

The truth about POLITICAL CRISIS IN BANGLADESH - the anatomy inside out
Prof. Bijon B. Sarma, Architecture Discipline, Khulna University
The foiling of the conspiracy of the BNP-Khaleda government by the dedicated workers of Awami league in December 2006...
READ MORE>>

MORE ARTICLES >>