FBI Shifts Resources To Handle GOP Corruption:
"In the past year and a half, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reassigned nearly 200 agents to the problem of public corruption ... It is a sad day for America when corruption is so rampant that the FBI must reassign agents -- perhaps from activities as essential as homeland security and the war on drugs -- to investigate politicians' abuse of office ... Americans don't want the FBI to resort to tactics normally reserved for gang lords and mafiosos when dealing with members of Congress, yet this is exactly what the Bureau has had to do during this 109th Congress -- a Republican Congress."

The Expanding Dictatorship:
"All dictators like to scare their people with stories of enemies and terror ... By fostering a perpetual state of crisis and emergency, Bush is able to exercise greater control. It gives him an excuse to operate like a dictator and abridge our rights.  Every day Bush/Cheney build their foundation for an expanding dictatorship. They may call it the power of the "unitary executive." Others have called it the "imperial presidency." But the proper word for it is dictatorship.  It's a dictatorship that springs, like all dictatorships, from a position of ideological purity — a position so blindly fixed that it executes with massive incompetence."

Maine Impeachment Voter Speaks Out:
"This isn't about politics.  What it is about is the accumulation of substantial evidence that this administration has broken its pledge to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States on many issues. A thorough investigation is warranted and past due ... Congress is doing an embarrassing job of protecting what may be the most corrupt and secretive executive branch to ever occupy the White House. If Congress refuses to accept its responsibility to assert and exercise its powers, then action must come from the citizens."

Hastert & Expanding GOP-Abramoff Scandal:
"In previous years this kind of thing would have been business as usual ... But as Jeffrey Birnbaum reports in our cover story this month, the Justice Department has taken an unusual approach to the Jack Abramoff scandals ... Hastert might be one of "six other lawmakers" named here, and it's possible that he could be in serious trouble even if he fully reported the Abramoff contributions. The rules of the game may be changing."

Cheney Role In Plame Leak Deepens:
"Vice President Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq and repeatedly directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then his chief of staff, to "get all the facts out" related to the critique ...  Cheney raised as an issue that the former ambassador's wife worked at the CIA ...  possibility that Cheney will be called as a witness at Libby's trial ..."