Documents released by Congress this week offer powerful new evidence that Karl Rove and other senior Bush administration figures took the lead in the firing of nine US attorneys in 2006. We speak to former New Mexico US attorney David Iglesias, who was fired after refusing Republican pressure to take on allegations of voter fraud and pursue cases against Democrats to help a Republican lawmaker’s re-election campaign.

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If you’ve ever been fortunate enough to visit Washington DC in August, you understand the custom of the federal government releasing all its high profile delinquents back into their home communities and calling it recess. DC was built on a swamp and walking around our Capital right now is like slogging through a sauna while wearing a lard- lined jogging suit made out of yak hair.

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I’m waiting for the health-care debate to start. The preliminaries have been spirited and loud, but how about a debate?
 
You may think there’s been a debate, but if you’d been listening carefully, you’d realize it’s a fake, like professional wrestling.

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Today’s issue of FFF Email Update links to an article about a rancher from my hometown of Laredo, Texas, who is complaining about abuses at the hands of the U.S. Border Patrol.

I know what that Laredo rancher is talking about because I experienced the same sort of Border Patrol abuse that he has experienced.

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The leader of an Islamist group that declared an "Islamic emirate" in the occupied Palestinian territories was among at least 22 people killed in clashes with Hamas security forces.

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At least seven people are believed to have been killed and more than 85 others wounded in a suicide car bombing in the most heavily guarded area of the Afghan capital.

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Iran's former reformist parliamentarians have questioned the fitness of the supreme leader to rule the Islamic Republic, reports say.

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Taiwan's president has said that he is sorry for his government's slow emergency response to Typhoon Morakot amid rising public anger.

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Colombia has signed a deal with the US allowing it to use its military bases.

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The latest US consumer price figures have calmed fears that the $787bn economic stimulus plan passed by congress earlier in the year would cause severe inflation.

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Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanon's Hezbollah, has warned that his group will strike Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or its suburbs.