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Renner & Leopold: Dem. Reaction To Baker Report
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:23 pm | Jason Leopold
The Iraq Study Group released its long-awaited report on Wednesday, recommending that the United States' involvement in the nearly four-year-old war should continue until at least 2008. This angered some Democrats, who said that the carnage and bloodshed ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Pullout-Pullback Battle Looms
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 9:50 pm | Jason Leopold
President Bush outright rejected calls for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq Thursday, setting the stage for what will likely be a bitter showdown between the White House and the new Democratic leadership in both houses of Congress, who insist ... More >>
Report: US Still Manipulating Iraq Intelligence
Friday, 1 December 2006, 6:11 pm | Jason Leopold
The Department of Defense has exaggerated the readiness of Iraqi army and police forces, claiming 312,400 men have been "trained and equipped," a figure that is so wildly off the mark that the country will likely require the support of the US military ... More >>
DOJ Probes NSA Spying, Democrats Suspicious
Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 8:33 pm | Jason Leopold
The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General announced Monday that it will immediately launch a probe into the agency's involvement with the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, raising suspicions among Democrats, who believe ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Peter Lance's 9/11 Masterpiece
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:32 pm | Jason Leopold
Peter Lance is one of the last in a dying breed. An investigative reporter who is disciplined enough to devote half a decade in pursuit of the truth. A newsman cut from the same cloth as the legendary journalist I.F. "Izzy" Stone. A gumshoe reporter ... More >>
Leopold: Plame Wilson v. White House: Round 1
Friday, 17 November 2006, 2:40 pm | Jason Leopold
Let the legal wrangling begin. The showdown between the White House, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, a former covert operative for the CIA whose identity was unmasked by Bush administration officials, entered its ... More >>
Bipartisan Support to Keep Iraq Watchdog Agency
Thursday, 16 November 2006, 11:40 am | Jason Leopold
The Senate voted Tuesday in favor of keeping open a federal agency that monitored taxpayer-funded reconstruction efforts in Iraq - a month after the Republican majority in both houses of Congress quietly passed legislation signed into law by President ... More >>
Leopold: New Senate, New Probe Into Pre-War Intel
Monday, 13 November 2006, 11:33 am | Jason Leopold
With the Democrats now in control of both houses of Congress, the new majority leadership is ready to start wielding their power by revisiting a hot-button issue that Republicans never provided answers to. More >>
Jason Leopold: Historic Democratic Victory
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 1:09 pm | Jason Leopold
Despite widespread problems with electronic voting machines, long lines that stretched several city blocks in some states, hours-long waiting at the polls, and GOP intimidation tactics aimed to drive away predominantly Democratic and minority voters, the public ... More >>
Democrats Calls For Probe Over GOP "Robocalling"
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 1:38 pm | Jason Leopold
Democratic congressmen John Conyers and John Dingell called for a federal investigation late Monday evening into a last minute ploy by Republicans to swing the midterm election by inundating registered Democrats with harassing prerecorded telephone calls trashing ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Rumsfeld's Lethal Denial
Monday, 6 November 2006, 2:24 pm | Jason Leopold
As the Iraq war continues to claim the lives of American troops on a near-daily basis and the country inches closer toward civil war, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wants the public to know that the carnage really isn't as bad as it seems. More >>
Jason Leopold: Bush "Upbeat" on Iraq?
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 11:44 am | Jason Leopold
Last week, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and senior White House officials, in hopes of shoring up the GOP's sagging poll numbers before the November 7 midterm election, went on a media blitz, granting on-the-record interviews to dozens of conservative ... More >>
Admin Officials Bill $1.5Mn For Private Air Travel
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:00 am | Jason Leopold
On the campaign trail, Bush administration officials often boast that Republicans are more savvy than their Democratic colleagues when it comes to issues like taxes and the economy in general. But behind the scenes, dozens of cabinet members and ... More >>
Severe Election Problems Seen in 10 States
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:41 pm | Jason Leopold
A nonpartisan organization tracking election reform across the United States released a report Wednesday warning that 10 states are likely to experience severe problems on November 7 because of electronic voting machines and new voter identification ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Jeffrey & Me
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:35 am | Jason Leopold
The conclusion to the ongoing Enron saga was anti-climactic. Jeff Skilling, the company's former chairman and chief executive, will spend the next 24 years in a federal penitentiary after being found guilty by a federal court earlier this year ... More >>
The Failure of Jeff Skilling's Deregulation
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 12:29 am | Jason Leopold
Like a huckster setting up a tent to hock snake oil, Jeffrey Skilling strode into a regulatory hearing in California 12 years ago hell-bent on making a sale. More >>
Jason Leopold: Dark Days Ahead
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 2:35 pm | Jason Leopold
One of the biggest failures of George W. Bush's presidency has been his administration's total disregard of the nation's power infrastructure - an issue that is a larger threat to homeland security than the impending attack on US soil by al Qaeda-type ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Ashcroft Warned Pre-9/11
Friday, 6 October 2006, 3:17 am | Jason Leopold
In an interview with the New York Times Monday, former Attorney General John Ashcroft said he was never briefed in early July 2001 by then-CIA Director George Tenet about a purported terrorist threat against the United States by al-Qaeda the spy agency ... More >>
Rice Ignored bin Laden Warnings Prior to 9/11
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:15 am | Jason Leopold
Richard Clarke was right. So was Paul O'Neill. During the six months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration paid little attention to the threat from al-Qaeda and instead set the stage for a war with Iraq. More >>
Leopold: Murtha Lays the Dead at Rumsfeld's Door
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:14 am | Jason Leopold
Democratic congressman John Murtha released a 12-page report outlining severe shortfalls plaguing the US Army as thousands of troops prepare to be deployed to Iraq. More >>
