Daily news digest 3/24-26/2007
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Bush
impeachment on the table, Hagel says
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-impeach26mar26,1,1876697.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
Some lawmakers who
complain that President Bush is flouting Congress and the public with his Iraq policies are considering impeachment an option, a Republican senator said Sunday. Sen.
Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and a
frequent critic of the war, stopped short of calling for Bush's impeachment.
But he made clear that some lawmakers viewed that as an option should Bush
choose to push ahead despite public sentiment against the war. "Any
president who says 'I don't care' or 'I will not respond to what the people of
this country are saying about Iraq or anything else' or 'I don't care what the
Congress does, I am going to proceed' — if a president really believes that,
then there are … ways to deal with that," Hagel said on ABC's "This
Week." The White House had no immediate reaction to Hagel's comments.
RELATED: Senator: Some see impeachment as option
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-25-hagel-iraq_N.htm
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Britons Taken to Tehran As Iran Dispute Intensifies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032400095.html
Fifteen British
sailors and marines seized by Iranian naval forces have been taken to Tehran
for questioning as a diplomatic dispute between Iran and the West intensified
Saturday. The Iranian Fars news agency reported that the British personnel were
being asked to explain what Iran calls their "aggressive" trespass
into Iranian territorial waters on Friday. The agency quoted a senior Iranian
military official, Alireza Afshar, as saying that the British service members
had "confessed" and that if the United States and its allies invaded Iran, they would "not be able to control the dimensions and period of the war."
British officials insist that the sailors and marines, on two small patrol
boats, were in Iraqi waters in the Persian Gulf conducting a routine patrol
under a U.N. mandate. British officials said the eight sailors and seven
marines had just completed an inspection of a merchant ship when they were
surrounded by Iranian vessels and captured near Shatt al Arab, a waterway
between Iraq and Iran that has long been a source of territorial disputes.
RELATED: Iran may charge seamen as spies
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703260163mar26,1,6377638.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Ex-Prosecutor
Says He Faced Partisan Questions Before Firing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032401122.html
One of the eight
former U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration said yesterday that
White House officials questioned his performance in highly partisan political
terms at a meeting in Washington in September, three months before his
dismissal. John McKay of Washington state, who had decided two years earlier
not to bring voter fraud charges that could have undermined a Democratic
victory in a closely fought gubernatorial race, said White House counsel
Harriet Miers and her deputy, William Kelley, "asked me why Republicans in
the state of Washington would be angry with me."
RELATED: Bush Reaffirms Confidence in Gonzales Amid New Disclosures
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032401196.html
RELATED: Focus on
Gonzales' `credibility'
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703260070mar26,1,5132451.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
RELATED: Three fired
U.S. attorneys balked at seeking death penalty
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-death26mar26,1,4373927.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
RELATED: Justice
Department tugged to the right
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-usattys25mar25,1,6680289.story?coll=la-headlines-politics
RELATED: Domenici
caught up in prosecutor scandal
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-25-domenici_N.htm
RELATED: Key GOP
senators criticize Gonzales
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/03/26/key_gop_senators_criticize_gonzales/
Edwardses
Reject Sympathy Votes, Defend His Decision to Stay in Race
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501439.html
John Edwards says
voters should not throw him their support just because his wife has cancer.
"Do not vote for us because you feel some sympathy or compassion for us.
That would be an enormous mistake," Edwards said on CBS's "60
Minutes" in an interview that aired last night. "The vote for the
presidency is far too important for any of those things to influence it."
Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, who has been diagnosed with a recurrence of
breast cancer, defended his decision to continue pursuing the Democratic
nomination. She said she could not live with denying him the chance to be
president. "That would be my legacy, wouldn't it, Katie?" according
to a transcript of the interview with Katie Couric, which was taped Saturday in
Las Vegas; the transcript was released Sunday before broadcast. "That
I'd taken out this fine man from -- from the possibility of -- of giving a
great service. I mean, I don't want that to be my legacy," Elizabeth
Edwards said.
RELATED: Democrats Speculate on Edwards
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301655.html
RELATED: In the
Hospital, Mrs. Edwards Set Campaign’s Fate
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/us/politics/25edwards.html
RELATED: Edwards’s
Cancer Has Spread Into One of Her Hips
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/us/politics/26edwards.html
Today’s complete national news
Colorado
Colorado delegation follows party lines in
casting votes
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5439742,00.html
Colorado's congressional delegation split
strictly along party lines in Friday's vote approving a $124 billion emergency
war spending plan that attempts to impose a timetable for U.S. troops to leave Iraq. All four Colorado Democrats - Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Denver; Mark
Udall, D-Eldorado Springs; John Salazar, D-Manassa; and Ed Perlmutter, D-Golden
- voted in favor of the resolution. All three Colorado Republicans - Reps.
Marilyn Musgrave, R-Fort Morgan; Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs; and Tom
Tancredo, R-Littleton - opposed it. DeGette, who is chief deputy whip for the
Democratic caucus, said trying to forge party unity was the toughest assignment
she has had in 10 years.
RELATED: Fund fight, and war itself, divide veterans
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5439776,00.html
RELATED: Musgrave
shuns war spending bill
http://coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070324/NEWS01/703240352/1002/NEWS17
RELATED: House OKs
Iraq withdrawal bill in challenge to Bush
http://pueblochieftain.com/metro/1174716000/1
Senators
give initial OK to Darfur-related measure
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/government/article/0,2777,DRMN_23906_5439331,00.html
Sen. Nancy Spence's
eyes welled with tears when she recounted how the U.S. stood by while her
adopted granddaughter's parents were among a half-million Rwandans slaughtered
in that country's civil war in 1994. "She was 3 years old at the
time," Spence said. "I have firsthand accounts from her relatives who
survived and talked about visiting mass graves. They identified the bodies of
her mother, who was pregnant." The Centennial Republican urged the Colorado
Senate on Friday not to stand idly by and do nothing while similar genocide
occurs in Sudan. She stood with a majority of the Senate and backed a bill that
requires the state's pension fund to divest in companies financially involved
with Sudan. House Bill 1184 is sponsored by Denver Democrats Sen. Peter Groff
and House Speaker Andrew Romanoff.
RELATED: Senior educates other teenagers about Darfur
http://www.denverpost.com/newsheadlines/ci_5520388
National
forest plan assailed
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5442796,00.html
Industry officials and
environmentalists are at odds over the new proposed management plan for the
Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests. The Western Colorado
Congress says the plan doesn't set aside enough land for wilderness or provide
enough protection for other land. "We see some real issues here,"
said Bill Grant, WCC president. "We feel the erosion of these areas that
support the wildlife and recreation are diminishing the forest for public
uses." Greg Schaefer, spokesman for Arch Coal, says the plan will allow
industry to operate for years.
RELATED: Enviros crying foul over forest plan
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/03/25/3_25_1b_GMUG_Plan.html
State
Lawmakers back Pinon Canyon ranchers
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5438322,00.html
The Colorado House
gave initial passage [Friday] to a bill opposing the U.S. Army’s plan to expand
its Pinon Canyon site by 418,000 acres for tank training. Supporters said House
Bill 1069 sends a message to the federal government to halt the Pinon Canyon
Maneuver Site expansion from wiping out generations-old Southeast Colorado
ranch families and irreplaceable dinosaur tracks. "We took an oath an
oath, each of us, to protect life, liberty and property," declared sponsor
Rep. Wes McKinley, D-Walsh, who represents ranchers in the sprawling grasslands
where cows outnumber people eight-to-one. "Every citizen in Colorado should be guaranteed in their heart that their government is going to protect
their right to what is actually theirs."
RELATED: House opposes Pinon Canyon land seizure
http://pueblochieftain.com/metro/1174716000/2
Today’s complete Colorado news
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