Damianmann’s NewsCloud Journal

When Alberto R. Gonzales was asked during his January 2005 confirmation hearing whether the Bush administration would ever allow wiretapping of U.S. citizens without warrants, he initially dismissed the query as a “hypothetical situation.”

But when Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) pressed him further, Gonzales declared: “It is not the policy or the agenda of this president to authorize actions that would be in contravention of our criminal statutes.”

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Tom Snyder, a former late-night staple and veteran newsman, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco from complications of leukemia. He was 71.

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Michael Moore said on Thursday that the Bush administration has served him with a subpoena regarding his trip to Cuba during the making of his new film, “Sicko,” reports United Press International.

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Stoll acknowledges that his previous editorial calling for Cheney to run “was widely mocked.” Apparently, once wasn’t enough.

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Missed the debates? Here’s a recap

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The $100-a-barrel oil that Goldman Sachs Group said would prevail by 2009 may be only a few months away.

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The YouTube debate lived up to its hype by serving up questions that traditional media moderators don’t ask.

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Democratic presidential hopefuls struggled Monday night to answer questions posed by young, Internet-savvy voters who challenged traditional political labels and the candidates’ own place in a broken political system.

“Wassup?” came the first question, from a voter named Zach, after another, named Chris, opened the CNN-YouTube debate with a challenge to the entire eight-candidate field: “Can you as politicians … actually answer questions rather than beat around the bush?”

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The Monday night Democratic presidential primary debate started out with a testy exchange between Alaska’s Mike Gravel and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois that exemplified an early focus on the candidates identities and broad visions of their candidacies.

“You’re not going to see any change when any of these people get elected,” Gravel said, before pointing to Senator Obama’s promise that he wasn’t taking money from political action committees and lobbyists.

“He has 134 bundlers, now what

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has taken impeachment “off the table,” in line with Official Washington’s view that trying to oust George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would be an unpleasant waste of time. But there is emerging a compelling logic that an unprecedented dual impeachment might be vital to the future of the United States.

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