According to Insight magazine, the White House is bracing for potential impeachment hearings. Possible charges to be leveled against the President are said to include false reports to Congress as well as the President's authorizing of NSA to engage in domestic spying without a court warrant as is required by the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. See for yourself here.

Glenn Greenwald has a great entry today essentially debunking the White House's latest go at defending it's warrantless Domestic Spying program. He recalls an attempt in 2002 by Republican Sen Mike DeWine of Ohio to introduce legislation that would amend FISA to lower the standard for non-citizens from "probable cause" to essentially "reasonable cause". The measure failed. See for yourself here.

Digby over at Hullabaloo goes further. See for yourself here

Media Matters has more as well. See for yourself here

Today student protestors at a Georgetown Law School Forum stood in silence with their backs turned to AG Gonzales as he attempted to defend the administrations warrantless domestic spying program, reports the AP. See for yourself here.

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the EPA is set to expand pesticide testing to include pregnant women and children. See for yourself here. See the Press Release. For more, go here.

Reuters is reporting that the US has outsourced its torturing of detainees while European governments have turned a blind eye. See for yourself here.

ABC News is reporting that on the day that Chief Justice John Roberts was being sworn in to his current position, Associate Justice Scalia was playing tennis at an outing sponsored by the Federalist Society. Scalia was the only justice absent at the swearing in. See for yourself here.

According to MarketWatch, Halliburton subsidiary KBR has just been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to support its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million. See for yourself here.

The Washington Post is reporting that the White House began to receive detailed warnings about the potential impact of Katrina to the Gulf Coast region as much as 48hrs prior to the storm reaching land. These warnings included "eerily prescient predictions of breached levees, massive flooding, and major losses of life and property, documents show." See for yourself here.