Bush Administration

Jersualem Put Into Darkness So That Bush Can Enjoy Sunrise

AFP | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lights Out Jerusalem, Olmert Israel, Bush Administration, Bush Israel, Israel, Ehud Olmert, George W. Bush, Politics News

Lights in the Old City of Jerusalem will be turned off before dawn this week so visiting US President George W. Bush can get a better view of the sun ...

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Pentagon Won't Probe KBR Rape Charges

ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Kbr, Kbr Rape Case, Iraq War Contractors, Iraq and Pentagon, Jamie Leigh Jones, George W. Bush, KBR Rape Allegations, Halliburton/Kbr, Iraq, War in Iraq, Warwire, Politics News

The Defense Department's top watchdog has declined to investigate allegations that an American woman working under an Army contract in Iraq was raped ...

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Sibel Edmonds Speaks...

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Espionage, Doug Feith, Richard Perle, Bush Administration, Sibel Edmonds, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

Sibel Edmonds, the FBI whistle-blower who has been gagged for years by the Bush administration over intercepts she translated while at the bureau, was...

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Ex-Bush Speechwriter Frum "Terrified" By Current GOP Landscape

NY Times | DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Republican Presidential Candidate, Aei, Bush Administration, Republican Primary, Carbon Tax, Axis of Evil, David Frum, New York Times, Gop, Politics News

As a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former speechwriter for President Bush, you're surprisingly critical of him in your new ...

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George Tenet Lawyers Up Over CIA Tapes Probe

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, Bush Administration, CIA Interrogation Tapes, CIA Tapes Destroyed, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, George Tenet, Michael Mukasey, Deleted CIA Tapes, George Tenet Michael Shapiro, CIA Tapes, Politics News

Attorney general Michael Mukasey's decision to launch a full-scale FBI probe into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes has sent several alarmed ...

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Video of Sleeping Guards Shakes Nuclear Industry

Washington Post | Steven Mufson | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Bush Administration, Union of Concerned Scientists, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, George W. Bush, Nuclear Energy Oversight, CBS News, Fbi, Politics News

Kerry Beal was taken aback when he discovered last March that many of his fellow security guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvan...

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Hillary Clinton's Videographer Selects The Gaussian Blur Mode

236.com | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iowa Caucuses, Hillary Clinton, Bush Administration, Hillary Clinton Campaign Advertisement, 236.Com, Iowa, Politics News

In a new campaign ad, the 60-year-old Hillary Clinton manages to lament the last seven years of the Bush Administration without looking as if she's li...

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24,000 civilian Iraqi deaths in 2007

The Daily Telegraph | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Bush Administration, Warwire, Success of the Surge, Iraq Death Toll, George W. Bush, Bush Administration Iraq, Iraq, War in Iraq, Iraq Civilian Deaths, Politics News

US-led coalition and paramilitary forces in Iraq were responsible for some 24,000 violent civilian deaths in 2007, according to an independent group m...

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Bush Appointee Blocked By Nine-Second Senate Session

USA Today | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Bush Appointees, Democratic Congress, Senator Jim Webb, Virginia Senator, Senate Interim Appointments, Department of Justice, Senate Democrats, Interim Appointments, Jim Webb, Senate Break, Politics News

The House was quiet as a mouse the day after Christmas. But across the Capitol, the Senate was operating in an unusually efficient manner in its ongoi...

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Moving Around DC's Deck Chairs: VP Chief of Staff David Addington Staying Put

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, David Addington, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Sources tell me Addington is waking up each day as energetic and vigorous as ever, determined to wreck the Constitution as much as he can before leaving office.

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CIA Torture and other War Crimes

Philip Giraldi | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, Cia, Accountability, Torture, Politics News
Philip Giraldi

The real reason for the cover-up on the CIA tapes is because torture is universally acknowledged to be a war crime and everyone in the CIA and White House hierarchy knows that to be true.

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Iraq Healthcare Worse Than Before War

BBC News | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Surge, Bush Administration, Warwire, Iraq Healthcare, Saddam Hussein, Success of the Surge, Iraq War, Iraq Quality of Life, War in Iraq, Politics News

Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity says. Doctors from the group Medact conducted surveys...

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Over 1000 Attorneys Demand Investigation Into Unconstitutional Action By Bush Admin

The Nation | Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: George W Bush, US Attorneys Scandal, Harriet Miers, Center for Constitutional Rights, Bush Administration, Politics News

Over one thousand lawyers - including former Governor Mario Cuomo and former Reagan administration official Bruce Fein - have signed onto the above s...

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U.S. Wants Iran To "Confess" To Past Nuke Program

Associated Press | George Jahn | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Warwire, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iran NIE, Condoleezza Rice, National Intelligence Estimate, War With Iran, Iran National Intelligence Estimate Nuclear Weapons Program, Bush Iran NIE, Iran, Iran National Intelligence Estimate, Iaea, Nie Iran Report, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

Iran must "confess" to running a past nuclear weapons program or its claims of cooperating with a U.N. investigation will not be credible, the chief U...

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Schwarzenegger To Sue Bush Administration Over Rejection Of Emissions Law

CNN | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Auto Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Bush Administration, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Global Warming, Bush, Politics News

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sue the federal government over its decision not to allow a California plan to reduce greenhouse gas em...

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Dems To Investigate, Schwarzenegger To Sue Over, EPA's Rejection Of Emissions Law

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 12.20.2007 | Business

Read More: Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Auto Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Bush Administration, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Business News

The Bush administration's rejection of state efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions touched off a flurry of counterattacks Thursday. Dem...

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Bush Slams California on Climate Change

Ann Carlson | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Waiver, Bush Administration, Climate Change, California, Automobile Emissions, Politics News
Ann Carlson

The best route to reversing the EPA denial of California's waiver request to regulate tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions is to elect a new president.

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Special Counsel Needed to Probe CIA Videotape Destruction

Joe Biden | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Joe Biden, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, CIA Interrogations, Mukasey Waterboarding, CIA Torture, Mukasey Torture, Politics News
Joe Biden

I do not make the call for a special counsel lightly. Seldom have the facts and circumstances surrounding an investigation made a more compelling case for appointment of a special counsel.

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Bush Admin Sides With Auto Industry, Blocks California's Emissions Plan

Wall Street Journal | MIKE SPECTOR and CHRISTOPHER CONKEY | Posted 12.20.2007 | Business

Read More: Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Fuel Efficiency, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bush Administration, California, Business News

The Bush administration blocked California's plan to put tighter limits on automobile tailpipe emissions, handing a victory to the auto industry on th...

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All Iraqi Groups Blame US Invasion For Discord, Study Shows

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Administration, Warwire, Anbar Province, Sunni Insurgency, George W. Bush, AQI, Al-Qaida, Iraq Civil War, Sunni, Shiite, Al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraq, War in Iraq, Iraq Insurgency, Politics News

Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see t...

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Congress Eases Access To Government Records

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Freedom of Informaton Act, Freedom of Information Laws, Bush Administration, Breaking Political News, Government Records, Politics News

Congress on Tuesday struck back at the Bush administration's trend toward secrecy since the 2001 terrorist attacks, passing legislation to toughen the...

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Bush Administration's Climate Change?

Ann Carlson | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mass v. EPA, Fuel Economy, Bali, Bush Administration, Climate Change, California Emissions Standards, Politics News
Ann Carlson

If Republicans believe in federalism, the Bush administration should let California regulate greenhouse gas emissions from car tailpipes.

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US Helps Turkey Hit Kurds In Iraq

Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson and Robin Wright | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Administration, Warwire, Turkey and Iraq, Turkey, Turkey Kurds, Turkey Iraq Invasion, Bush Administration Iraq, War in Iraq, Turkey Iraq, Politics News

The United States is providing Turkey with real-time intelligence that has helped the Turkish military target a series of attacks this month against K...

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Bush Admin Pushing For Control Of Military Lawyers' Promotions

Boston Globe | Charlie Savage | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, White House, Bush Administration, Military Lawyers Promotions, Military Lawyers, JAG, Politics News

The Bush administration is pushing to take control of the promotions of military lawyers, escalating a conflict over the independence of uniformed att...

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Bush Admin Asks Judge Not To Investigate CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogation Tapes, CIA Interrogations, Bush Administration, Bush Administration Torture, CIA Tapes, Bush, Breaking Politics News, Politics News

he Bush administration has told a federal judge it was not obligated to preserve videotapes of CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists and urged th...

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