bush administration

Donald Rumsfeld, former secretary of defense, dies at 88

Read this in a movie review by Michael Phillips in yesterday's Chicago Tribune: Is there any factual basis for Mr. Siegal's boast?

The memo Bush tried to destroy The memo itself (warning: PDF), recently declassified. Personally, I'm of the opinion that the Bush Administration was guilty of some very real crimes. I know there are those here who disagree. I don't know how accurate this story is or what the other side may...

Even if I didn't lose any money in the current crisis, the interview between Bill Moyers and William K. Black made me quite angry about the scope of WTF was - and according to him - STILL IS going on behind the scenes: Excerpts: Full Interview...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/10/exclusive-leahy-talks-to_n_165774.html . This will be the greatest television since the McCarthy hearings.

IIRC, New Orleans didn't fare too well, either. In any event, this is one of those non surprising pieces about the winding down of the Bush administration, with some interesting zingers. Ouch.

Breaking News: Ex-Bush press secretary Tony Snow dies Former White House press secretary Tony Snow has died at the age of 53 after a second battle with cancer. Snow, who had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for a recurrence of the disease, left his White House job September. 14, 2007...

I posted a thread a couple days ago, and the direction it went led me to this post. I thought it would be interesting to play "Monday morning quarterback" with some of you guys/girls (nearly 8 years later). I just have a few questions that relate to each other, so here we go! 1) Do you think...

Politico has an exclusive preview of Scott McClellan's new book, in which McClellan TUBs (throws under bus) his former employer. I guess this is the literal definition of a sell-out, because this doesn't really put McClellan himself in a very good light, but does put a lot of money in his...

"There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a 'war on science'." See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602446.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

We haven't heard from Paul Wolfowitz for some time. He's popped up in the news with a story bound to shock and awe everyone. The Bush administration had no idea what it was doing when it invaded Iraq. To be fair, he is not cutting himself any slack for this cluelessness, but is another...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print Well we've all known for a while that TV news has been increasingly out of touch with reality, but apparently there's a reason for that. The Pentagon has been deliberately manipulating things, and it...

The Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of lies that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003. Not surprisingly, the officials with the most opportunities to make speeches, grant media interviews, and otherwise frame the...

How does proof of "a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq," and the American and innocent blood shed because of it, not constitute prima facie evidence to support an indictment and trial for treason? Open and shut. Any students of...

CIA discloses news that it destroyed interrogation video tapes CIA director Hayden says the agency did not want to compromise agents' security. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315965,00.html http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL0794447.html...

Linky Not much more info than that so far. ETA: CNN is reporting it, too.

We all heard the change in the Pat Tillman story a year or so ago, that his death was actually due to friendly fire not enemy fire. It appeared to me that the initial cover-up of the true reason was due to those in command being embarassed that a star like Tillman was killed in a friendly fire...

I support the ruling that beef producers should be able to test every cow to test every cow if they choose. I am at a loss for words that would not violate rule 8 for my anger that the current administration wishes to appeal this ruling. (And I don't even eat beef anymore!) I understand that...

On the day that former Department of Justice senior counselor and White House liaison Monica Goodling -- who earlier copped the fifth beneath the looming shadow of the "attorneygate" dustup -- was granted immunity to testify before Congress, a DoJ spokesman commented that, lo and behold, it...

New York Magazine interview of Hitchens: Oh, no. The fundies are right: atheists have no source for their morals and thus cannot ever be moral. Rove's lack of morality is well evidenced in his attack on McCain in the 2000 Republican primaries. Not many South Carolinians knew that McCain had...

Apparently the Office of Special Counsel has begun an investigation into "the actions" of Karl Rove over the last six years. It's not a criminal investigation, but an investigation nonetheless. Evidently, the probe began two months ago, and the White House is saying that it was unaware of that...

Link Will Bush listen?

They've withstood the liberal media, ethics committees, congressional investigations, VP Dick Cheney trying to kill off their own members in a hunting accident, and the American people throwing their party out of power, but can they survive Billy Jack’s Moral Revolution...

Drug Control Office Faulted For Issuing Fake News Tapes http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54651-2005Jan6.html Fake News Gets White House OK http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36694-2005Mar15.html "David E. Sanger writes in the New York Times: "Behind President...

Story Bush is truly twisted. This is absurd. This guy has no problem with ice age principles and pushing them on everybody else. Yeah, I know, no surpises here.

September 24, 2001.

This probably belongs in the political forum but this is sort of relate to the notion of "intelligence failure" by the bush administration in preventing the 9/11 attack which in my opinion, is absurd. If you think the bush administration is so incompetence then how did they come to win two...

I had to start a thread about this since it has been ignored in others. A new york times article regarding the report of 60 scientists including several noble laureates says this The article is at...

Hmmmm, maybe the "mandate from heaven" expired? Aide says White House mocked evangelicals · Administration accused of cynical ploy to win votes · Bush adviser denies he called supporters 'nuts' Julian Borger in Washington Saturday October 14, 2006 The Guardian A former senior...

I wonder what other findings (from scientific research) are being blocking?