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Iraq -- The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War
The project, the product of two and half years of reporting and research, produced a 380,000-word database that juxtaposes what President Bush and seven top officials were saying for public consumption against what was known, or should have been known, on a day-to-day basis. This fully searchable database includes the public statements, drawn from both primary sources (such as official transcripts) and secondary sources (such as major news organizations) over the two years beginning on September 11, 2001. It also interlaces relevant information from government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews. An interactive timeline shows the examination of the records. All 935 records highlighted false statements and hundreds of secondary accounts that illuminate the discrepancies between what was being said against what was known privately, for a two-year time span.
Tags: September 11 attacks; 9/11; World Trade Center attacks; Bush administration; George W. Bush; Richard Cheney; Condoleeza Rice; Donald Rumsfeld; Colin Powell; Paul Wolfowitz; Ari Fleisher; Scott McClellan
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The price of loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Bush administration, from policy-making on Iraq, the economy and the environment to a candid look at the president himself. The account is based on interviews with members of the administration and more than 19,000 documents Suskind obtained through his main source, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
Tags: BOOK; George Bush; Iraq; Donald Rumsfeld; Paul O'Neill; Christine Todd Whitman; Dick Cheney; White House
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Navy Proposes Shipbuilding Cuts, Plans to Appeal to Bush for Reforms (Inside the Navy); Collins Warns Navy Not to 'Squander' Shipbuilding Budget Progress (Inside the Navy); Warner Concerned About Possible Carrier Delay (InsideDefense.com); Pentagon Further Curtails Navy Shipbuilding Budget (InsideDefense.com)
Castelli's investigative series feature in Inside the Navy and InsideDefense.com exposes proposed shipbuilding cuts in the Navy's fiscal year 2006 budget. The series sheds light on how the cuts will affect the Navy, as well as major U.S. shipyards. "With so much at stake, this series of articles gave decision-makers on Capitol Hill the maximum time available to consider policy questions about shipbuilding that could affect national security, the industrial base, politics and state and local economies."
Tags: Pentagon; Navy Department; Gordon England; Donald Rumsfeld; President Bush; General Dynamics; Northop Grumman
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Card has Pentagon Accelerate plans to replace Bush's Helicopter
According to this article the White House has been concerned about the helicopters being used by President Bush. These reports reveal that defense personnel in charge of the President's security want the Marine One helicopters to be refurbished and more modern defense systems incorporated.
Tags: President Bush; Defense; Helicopter safety; Marine one helicopters; Pentagon; Andrew Card; Donald Rumsfeld
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Nukes in Space: Bush and the New Push for Galactic Warfare
Drawing on military documents and other sources, this left-of-center publication reveals U.S. plans for to put weapons in space. "Some $6 billion a year -- plus funds in the 'black' or secret -- have been going into U.S. space military activities." Space-based weapons would violate the provisions of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, Grossman writes. Among the initiatives for space-based warfare mentioned in the military documents: development of two space-based lasers, one of which is already being developed; mining the surface of the moon for precious materials; building lunar foxholes where U.S. spacecraft could hide to intercept shipments of materials from the moon to other countries. Today, with space laser technology not yet ready for deployment, "U.S. military plans for space will likely involve the use of nuclear power as an energy source for space-based weapons."
Tags: Outer Space Treaty; George W. Bush; Star Wars; U.S. Space Command; Vision for 2020; Long Range Plan; Guardians of the High frontier; Almanac; space-based laser; Alpha high-energy laser; Donald Rumsfeld; missile defense