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Rocky Anderson, it turns out, is not stepping aside quietly. Joining a list of liberal luminaries, including Noam Chomsky and George McGovern, Salt Lake City's outgoing mayor submitted a letter Friday that calls on the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the Bush administration for abuses of power. The letter, signed by 18 political and cultural figures, asks House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., to hold hearings on alleged violations of the law under President Bush that include kidnapping and torture, warrantless wiretapping, a war of aggression against Iraq and disseminating false propaganda to deceive the American people. It came...

Former Congressman Assess U.S. Foreign Policy DURING MY LONG life, America has surmounted many severe challenges. As a teenager, I experienced the Great Depression. In World War II, I saw war close-up as a Navy Seabee. As a country newspaper editor, I watched the Korean War from afar. As a Member of Congress, I agonized through the Vietnam War from start to finish. During these challenges I never for a moment worried about America's ultimate survival with its great principles and ideals still intact. Today, for the first time, I worry deeply about America's future. We are in a deep...

Public Hearing -- The Middle East in Election 2004: Voting Out the Neocons To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Terry Walz of the Council for the National Interest, 202 863-2951 News Advisory: REMINDER When: Jan. 27, 10:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m. Where: Room 2237 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC The winter storm that hit Washington Sunday evening will not disrupt the scheduled public hearing on the direction of US Middle East policy featuring two former Republican congressmen, Paul Findley (R-Ill.) and Paul "Pete" McCloskey (R-Calif.), Edward Peck, a former Chief of Mission in Baghdad, and Civic Leader Dr....