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Cheney's Role In Plame Outing Under Scrutiny
Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 3:29 pm | Jason Leopold
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say. Plame’s husband was a vocal critic of prewar ... More >>
The Plot to Blow Up NYC Subway is Bogus
Friday, 14 October 2005, 3:42 pm | Jason Leopold
Its official: I’m a conspiracy theorist. I’m probably one of thousands -- maybe tens of thousands -- who believe President George W. Bush and his most senior advisors, will do anything to improve the president’s poll numbers just to turn the public’s ... More >>
Bill Frist, The Former 2008 Presidential Candidate
Monday, 3 October 2005, 12:26 am | Jason Leopold
It's one thing to lie in politics. It's another to be caught in a lie. Bill Frist has been caught in a lie. His political future is over. The immediate question is, can he survive as Majority Leader? More >>
GOP's Natural Disaster Turned Man-Made Catastrophe
Thursday, 22 September 2005, 12:32 am | Jason Leopold
Republicans like to brag that, as a political party, they are more fiscally responsible than their Democratic counterparts. Well, thanks to President Bush’s four years in office that theory can now take up residence in the urban legend department. More >>
FEMA Katrina Funeral Contractor Desecrated Corpses
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 2:15 pm | Jason Leopold
A funeral services company which recently learned that one of its subsidiaries is negotiating a lucrative contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove dead bodies in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, paid $100 million to settle ... More >>
False Hurricane Claims to Help Bush Win Fla. Votes
Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:48 am | Jason Leopold
Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Death vs Prosperity Under Bush
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:40 pm | Jason Leopold
Another few thousand bit the dust. Chalk another one up for the Bush administration. That’ll be President Bush’s long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the 21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the president ... More >>
Global Warming & Blackouts as Deadly as Terrorism
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:50 am | Jason Leopold
Two years ago this month, a Blackout plunged 50 million people in Northeastern U.S. and the Canadian province of Ontario into total darkness for more than a day, wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy. Now, it’s the devastation in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi ... More >>
Jason Leopold: What's Eating Cindy Sheehan?
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:45 am | Jason Leopold
Cindy Sheehan has been subjected to an unwarranted backlash by right-wing pundits because of her antiwar protests and some explosive statements she made about President Bush. Perhaps Sheehan, while mourning the death of her son, Casey, a U.S. soldier ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The President’s Priorities
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:22 am | Jason Leopold
Why is President Bush more concerned with the state of marriage than the state of Louisiana? That’s what the New Orleans City Business paper asked in early February, a couple of weeks after Bush’s State of the Union address, in which the president ... More >>
Jason Leopold: President Bush's Big Secret
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 10:12 am | Jason Leopold
Every year, right around the anniversary of 9/11 the Bush administration spins the public about the reasons 1,864 American soldiers have died fighting for a lie in Iraq. And every year, it’s just as crucial that the media tell the public the truth ... More >>
Halliburton Secretly Doing Business With Iranian
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 5:53 pm | Jason Leopold
Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the officials' oil development company ... More >>
Report Shows Rove May Have Lied to FBI, A Felony
Friday, 15 July 2005, 3:24 pm | Jason Leopold
Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison. It now appears that Rove, President Bush’s chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003—a federal crime—when he was questioned ... More >>
Enron Policy Pimp To Be Named Chair of FERC
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 4:03 pm | Jason Leopold
The audacity inside the Bush administration never ceases to amaze. The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner ... More >>
Someone Tell Bush Iraq Wasn't Responsible for 9/11
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 11:11 am | Jason Leopold
"We went to war because we were attacked," President Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. Yeah, by al-Qaeda not Iraq. For President Bush to say publicly that the United States attacked Iraq because of 9/11 is not only an outright lie but it's ... More >>
Enron's White Seeks Govt. Energy Project Funding
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 2:38 pm | Jason Leopold
Beware. This could be your tax dollars at work. The federal government may guarantee hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to help a former energy executive who publicly admitted he had no idea that the division he once ran cooked its books and who is ... More >>
When Is Someone Going To Toss Rumsfeld In A Cage?
Monday, 6 June 2005, 12:39 pm | Jason Leopold
At the end of the day Friday, the Pentagon confirmed a pattern of widespread abuse of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, by military personnel dating back two and a half years. Releasing the report when most beat reporters have left for the weekend was ... More >>
Watergate Proves That Even Presidents Break Laws
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 2:53 pm | Jason Leopold
Tuesday's revelation that W. Mark Felt, the former number two man at the FBI, was the anonymous source known as Deep Throat, who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in the pages of the Washington Post 30 years ago should ... More >>
BP Faces Fines Over Unreported Alaskan Oil Spills
Monday, 16 May 2005, 1:33 pm | Jason Leopold
While the hacks working for mainstream news organizations were busy chasing the story about the Runaway Bride late last month, a real scandal was just beginning to unfold as Congress inched closer to approving a controversial measure to open up a couple ... More >>
Opening ANWR to Dev. Could Lead To Disaster
Thursday, 21 April 2005, 1:01 pm | Jason Leopold
It's true that thousands of caribou and other types of wildlife will be displaced if Washington D.C. lawmakers pass a measure to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. More >>
