Washington’s current conventional wisdom is that the “bad ol’ days” of the 1950s and 1960s couldn’t recur because a formal system of congressional oversight was put in place...
The UN report has many holes. It implicates the Syrian government in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, while giving a lift to US demands for “regime change” in Damascus.
If American progressives think they have enough media clout to make a real issue of George W. Bush's possible impeachment over the Iraq War, they should read the account of Rep. John Conyers's rump hearing on the Downing Street Memo that appeared in the Washington Post.
