NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

Put fin, tumunok Si Alberto Gonzalez. Kada na hu egga' TV put iyo-ña bolabola, nina’hasso yu’ ni este na kånta, kåntan Johnny Sablan. Kuanto na piniti, kuanto na dinagi… Para i meggaiña na taotao, esta munhåyan este na yinaoyao. Este i suetten i mampulitikåt, no? Yanggen manisao hao, tumunok ha’ ya tåya’ mutta, ti para un mapongle. Olaha mohon an manggai este lokkue hami ni’ ti mampulitikåt. Mungga maduda na ti umisao Si Alberto, meggai na lai Amerikånu yan tinaotao ha yamak. Put iyo-ña corruption, yanggen Chamorro gui’, ya sumasaga’ gui’ giya Guahan, siempre i PDN yan todu otro pau fanessalao “ñukot yan kana’ gui’!” Lao sa’ ti Chamorro gui’ ya macho’cho’cho’ giya i Mås Mutong na Sisonyan Corruption (Washington D.C.), ti pau mapacha, yap au eskapåyi siempre. Lao hu diseseha ha’ sinembåtgo. Hu diseseha ha na i Democrats para u mausuni mo’ña ya aligao mas. Hu diseseha lokkue’ na i Democrats para u mana’apåsi Si Alberto ni’ i dibi-ña. Siempre bai hu guife put i magågun mapresu n

Published on Friday, August 10, 2007 by The Protect Alberto Gonzales Act of 2007 by Patricia Williams I don’t get it. All summer we listened to incoherent testimony from the Attorney General of the United States. Alberto “prohibitions against torture are quaint” Gonzales, the guy who believes “there is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution,” had tried to bully a near-comatose John Ashcroft into OK-ing a secret warrantless wiretapping program that illegally spied on citizens. Gonzales’s general uncooperativeness was so great that there was loud Congressional discussion of censure or even impeachment. Yet here we are, only a few weeks after all the brouhaha about his fronting for President Bush’s pursuit of an ever more secretive unitary executive–and Congress passes a law that legalizes precisely the kind of warrantless wiretapping the Bush Administration, through Gonzales, was seeking. The Protect America Act of 2007, or Section 1927 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

Published on Thursday, January 25, 2007 by the Seattle Post-Ingelligencer Up to Democrats to investigate Torture by Amy Goodman The new head of the Senate Judiciary Committee was angry. Sen. Patrick Leahy was questioning U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about a man named Maher Arar. Arar is a Canadian citizen the U.S. detained without charge then sent to Syria in 2002. Leahy fumed: "We knew damn well, if he went to Canada, he wouldn't be tortured. He'd be held. He'd be investigated. We also knew damn well, if he went to Syria, he'd be tortured." Leahy was responding to Alberto Gonzales' comments that "there were assurances sought that he would not be tortured from Syria." Assurances? From the country that President Bush recently described as the "crossroads for terrorism"? From the country that Bush has vilified and threatened to attack? But before we point the finger at other countries, we have to look here at home. Gonzales

Published on Sunday, July 30, 2006 by the New York Times A Senate Race in Connecticut Editorial Earlier this year, Senator Joseph Lieberman’s seat seemed so secure that — legend has it — some people at the Republican nominating convention in Connecticut started making bleating noises when the party picked a presumed sacrificial lamb to run against the three-term senator, who has been a fixture in Connecticut politics for more than 35 years. But Mr. Lieberman is now in a tough Democratic primary against a little-known challenger, Ned Lamont. The race has taken on a national character. Mr. Lieberman’s friends see it as an attempt by hysterical antiwar bloggers to oust a giant of the Senate for the crime of bipartisanship. Lamont backers — most of whom seem more passionate about being Lieberman opponents — say that as one of the staunchest supporters of the Iraq war, Mr. Lieberman has betrayed his party by cozying up to President Bush. This primary would never have happened absent Ira

Published on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 by Vanity Fair Senate Hearings on Bush, Now by Carl Bernstein Worse than Watergate? High crimes and misdemeanors justifying the impeachment of George W. Bush, as increasing numbers of Democrats in Washington hope, and, sotto voce, increasing numbers of Republicans—including some of the president's top lieutenants—now fear? Leaders of both parties are acutely aware of the vehemence of anti-Bush sentiment in the country, expressed especially in the increasing number of Americans—nearing fifty percent in some polls—who say they would favor impeachment if the president were proved to have deliberately lied to justify going to war in Iraq. John Dean, the Watergate conspirator who ultimately shattered the Watergate conspiracy, rendered his precipitous (or perhaps prescient) impeachment verdict on Bush two years ago in the affirmative, without so much as a question mark in choosing the title of his book Worse than Watergate. On March 31, some three