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Search results for "President George W. Bush" ...
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The Prosecution of Governor Siegelman
Seven U.S. Attorneys were fired in December 2006 by the Bush Justice Department not because of poor performance, but because of the refusal to engage in politically-driven prosecutions. Former Governor of Alabama Don Siegelman was convicted of bribery and sentence to serve seven years in jail.
Tags: President George W. Bush; Circuit Court of Appeals; imprisonment; allegation; Grant Woods;
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Big Gov: Runaway Spending Under Bush
President George W. Bush's spending for defense and homeland security opened up a funding funnel that poured billions into a poorly managed and badly supervised contracting system.
Tags: George Bush; Department of Homeland Security; Department of Defense; federal government; money; contracts; budget; bureaucracy; economy; Pentagon
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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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Takeover: The Return of the Imerial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Since the 1970s and 80s a faction of the Republican party has been working to create a system that allows "the White House to wield enormous power, operating behind a veil of secrecy and unchecked by Congress or the courts. Today's administration is bringing this project to fruition."
Tags: politics; government; Watergate; checks and balance; George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; executive power; Republican
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End-Time Christians Promote War with President Bush's Administration
According to close observers of President George W. Bush, End-Time Christian leaders have influenced Bush so that he has become steeped in the ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse and war with satanic forces in the Middle East. President Bush is also said to be trying to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God’s end-of-days plan.
Tags: Christianity; end of the world; religious impact; doomsday; faith;
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Hillary's Mystery Money Men
This article looks at the use of bundling and fundraising by people formerly tied to transnational interests and foreign dictators as a means to get the ear of a prospective U.S. president. This story revealed the influence of Alan Quasha, an international businessman and early key benefactor of George W. Bush, in Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Tags: campaign finance; campaign donations; special interests; international politics; presidential election; FEC
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Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War
"Hubris is a narrative that tells the behind the scenes of story of events inside the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department and Congress as President Bush sold the country on the need to go to war against Iraq. It reveals how the Bush administration distorted, twisted, and embellished intelligence to present a thoroughly false picture that Iraq was a storehouse of weapons of mass destruction, was reconstituting its nuclear program, and had relationships with al Qaeda terrorists- despite significant doubts and dissents from numerous intelligence analysts and government experts." It also delves into the role of the news organizations in selling the idea and how White House officials undermined Iraq critics.
Tags: Iraq War; al Qaeda; George W. Bush; Bush; weapons of mass destruction; CIA; Pentagon; White House; Congress; Saddam Hussein; Karl Rove; Dick Cheney;
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The Pimping of the Presidency
This story details the Washington scandal of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff using access to George W. Bush to swing Indian gaming money to Grover Norquist. According to the investigation, Abramoff essentially "sold access" to the White House to the Alabama Coushatta nation.
Tags: Jack Abramoff; Indian gaming; FOIA; tribal council; Alabama Coushatta Nation; Bush administration
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Vanishing Wetlands
The authors used satellite imagery to determine how many acres of Florida's wetlands had disappeared since 1990, when President George H.W. Bush promised to ensure no net loss of wetlands. The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for maintaining the wetlands, but the organization's record-keeping is so incomplete that they have no accurate record of how many acres of wetlands were saved and how many were destroyed. The reporters found that government records regarding the creation of new wetlands were full of "creative accounting and questionable science."
Tags: environment; wetlands; preservation; ecosystem; wildlife; Army Corps of Engineers; FOIA; data analysis; satellite imagery; mapping
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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