From Night Ridder, according to a poll released last week by Zogby International, 52% of Americans favor impeaching President Bush if the NSA program which he authorized included spying on Americans without a warrant. See for yourself here.

From Reuters, Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat, has asked AG Alberto Gonzales "what steps are being taken to protect Americans' privacy rights as the Justice Department demands information about Internet searches". See for yourself here.

ThinkProgress has video of the Bush administration's top mine safety official, David Dye, walking out in the middle of his appearance in front of a Senate subcommittee looking into the tragedy of the Sago mining disaster. See for yourself here.

According to the New York Times, Sen Arlen Specter, "can't recollect it ever happening before" but plans to, "find a way to take appropriate note of it." See for yourself here.

According to the New York Times, as is the norm with this White House when ever a tragedy occurs as a result of theinegligencece oincompetencece, rather then get to the "why" in an effort to prevent it from ever happening again, they prefer to "stonewall" any investigation. Because, you see, if we pretend it didn't happen, it'll just go away. The Presidency of Bush 43: A Seemingly Endless Series of On-Going Investigations! See for yourself here.

Rawstory is reporting that the Pentagon has suspended a senior fraud investigator who has crusaded against military contractor overcharges for "insubordination". Their source is Eric Rosenberg for the Hearst News Service. According to Rawstory, Rosenberg's article, which went out to Hearst member papers, has not appeared in any of them to date. See for yourself here.

According to the New York Times, "A new audit of American financial practices in Iraq has uncovered irregularities including millions of reconstruction dollars stuffed casually into footlockers and filing cabinets, an American soldier in the Philippines who gambled away cash belonging to Iraq, and three Iraqis who plunged to their deaths in a rebuilt hospital elevator that had been improperly certified as safe." See for yourself here.