links for 2007-03-05

• News From Underground: On BushCo’s purge of the US Attorneys
  Having lost its grip on Congress, BushCo is now tightening its chokehold on the body politic primarily by subverting the judiciary nationwide. That is the one and only reason for the recent purge of US Attorneys in Arizona, California, Arkansas and elsewh
  (tags: Bush USAttorney authoritarianism unitary executive)
• globeandmail.com: From Texas cell, Canadian, 9, pleads for help
  AUSTIN, TEX. — Even if you try to look past the eight-metre-high chain-link fence, beyond the scores of uniformed guards patrolling the perimeter and away from the cameras, metal detectors and lasers, there isn’t the slightest evidence of children insid
  (tags: politics GWOT civil rights)