Senate
Thursday Open Thread
From the Soapbox, Chrissy writes about the energy bill's failure to get through the Senate. Includes some links to happs on the environment/energy front, including Gore's comments on how the Bush administration is blocking action at international talks on climate change at Bali.
In other news, the Mitchell Report on steroid usage in Major League Baseball came out today. For a full list of names mentioned in the report, click below the fold...
YESSS. Senate subpoenas documents relating to NSA warrantless wiretapping
The Senate Judiciary Committee asked the Bush administration to give up the papers as part of its inquiry into the controversial spying programme.
The administration has refused a series of requests to release the documents.
The president rejects claims that he broke the law by ordering surveillance without first securing warrants.
Reid to Bush: "This war is lost."
Reid, the Senate's top Democrat, described part of a meeting with Bush at the White House on Wednesday -- the same day bombs killed almost 200 people in Baghdad in the worst day of violence since a U.S.-backed security crackdown was launched there earlier this year.
"This is the message I took to the president," Reid said at a news conference.
"Now I believe myself ... that this war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything, as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday," said Reid, of Nevada.
"I know I was like the odd guy out yesterday at the White House, but at least I told him what he needed to hear, not what he wanted to hear," he added.