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New Energy Sec. Was One of Texas' Worst Polluters
Monday, 17 January 2005, 10:38 am | Jason Leopold
In the bizarro world that President Bush lives in, it pays 'literally' to be a miserable failure, a criminal and a corporate con man. Those are just some of the characteristics of the dastardly men and women who were tapped recently to fill the vacancies in ... More >>
Sinclair's Long History of Journalistic Deception
Wednesday, 20 October 2004, 2:55 pm | Jason Leopold
Sinclair Broadcasting Group has tried to influence the outcome of elections long before the media company became a lightning rod for criticism due to its decision to air a controversial documentary ten days before the Nov. 2 election critical of ... More >>
Cheney's Halliburton Helped Saddam Siphon UN $Bns
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 11:36 am | Jason Leopold
The one company that helped Saddam exploit the oil-for-food program in the mid-1990s that wasn't identified in Duelfer's report was Halliburton, and the person at the helm of Halliburton at the time of the scheme was Vice President Dick Cheney. More >>
Is There Still Time to Impeach The US President?
Friday, 8 October 2004, 1:00 pm | Jason Leopold
John Dean, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon, made a case last year for impeaching President George W. Bush if the president intentionally misled Congress and the public into backing a war with Iraq. More >>
Jason Leopold: When Campaigns Were About Issues
Monday, 20 September 2004, 10:29 am | Jason Leopold
Somewhere in between the furor surrounding those dubious National Guard memos that purportedly show how President Bush shirked his military duties some 30 years ago lies the meat of this ferocious, mud slinging presidential campaign; the policies ... More >>
How Cheney Left With $35M Before Halliburton Probe
Thursday, 19 August 2004, 11:42 am | Jason Leopold
It's obvious that no mainstream news reporter has the gumption to seriously question Vice President Dick Cheney's ethics when he was chief executive of Halliburton, the oil-field services company that is currently embroiled in a scandal with the Pentagon ... More >>
Terrorist Warnings Another Way To Steal Election
Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 1:40 pm | Jason Leopold
It's official. I'm a conspiracy theorist. I'm probably one of thousands-maybe tens of thousands-who believe President George W. Bush will do anything to retain control of the White House. It's not safe to have a healthy dose of skepticism like this ... More >>
Cheney Lobbied Against Iran Sanctions In 1996
Friday, 23 July 2004, 1:18 pm | Jason Leopold
Vice President Dick Cheney is a bad guy. He can toss around the F-word all he wants in response to the criticism directed at him as a result of his close ties to Halliburton, the company he headed from 1995-2000, but he can't hide from the truth. More >>
Docs. Suggest Enron's Lay & Skilling Knew About CA
Tuesday, 8 June 2004, 12:38 am | Jason Leopold
Federal energy regulators have just released more than 400 pages of documents that suggest former Enron chairman Ken Lay and former chief executive Jeff Skilling were aware that Enron's west coast traders may have broken the law by using manipulative ... More >>
Schwarzenegger Energy Advisors Campaign Donors
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 11:40 am | Jason Leopold
One of the many missteps that led to the unraveling of Gray Davis’ decades long political career was the way in which the former governor of California handled the state’s energy crisis. More >>
Schwarzenegger Pulls a Cheney On CA Energy Plan
Monday, 3 May 2004, 11:03 am | Jason Leopold
A few days before Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th Governor of California last year he stood on the steps of the capital building in Sacramento waving a broom over his head, an obvious symbolic gesture in which Schwarzenegger promised to clean ... More >>
Got Juice? California Power Shortages This Summer
Friday, 16 April 2004, 2:18 pm | Jason Leopold
Get ready for another jolt this summer. California energy officials are expected to issue a startling report next week warning that the state is going to be terribly short of electricity, which could result in a repeat of the energy crisis that wreaked ... More >>
Rice Never Spoke About Al-Qaeda Before 9/11
Monday, 5 April 2004, 12:11 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 >>
Cheney Connected Co. Faces CA Criminal Charges
Monday, 22 March 2004, 4:01 pm | Jason Leopold
Three years ago, while California’s energy crisis was spiraling out of control, Vice President Dick Cheney secretly met with half-dozen corporate executives of the country’s largest energy companies to hammer out a national energy policy for President George ... More >>
Cheney Covered-Up Pakistani Nuclear Proliferation
Monday, 8 March 2004, 4:05 pm | Jason Leopold
When news of Pakistan’s clandestine program involving its top nuclear scientist selling rogue nations, such as Iran and North Korea, blueprints for building an atomic bomb was uncovered last month, the world’s leaders waited, with baited breath, to see ... More >>
Spying On UN Sec. General Part Of Larger Campaign
Friday, 27 February 2004, 2:18 pm | Jason Leopold
More evidence emerged Thursday about the United States and Britain’s underhanded tactics aimed at undermining the United Nations Security Council as it considered a U.S.-backed resolution in launching a preemptive strike against Iraq last year. More >>
Halliburton's Second Criminal Probe In Four Years
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 12:07 am | Jason Leopold
Halliburton and its former chief executive, Vice President Dick Cheney, could become President Bush’s Achilles heel come the November presidential election. More >>
O’Neill’s Claims Against Bush Supported By Letters
Thursday, 15 January 2004, 2:15 pm | Jason Leopold
Anyone who doubts former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill’s recent claims that President Bush mislead the public and secretly planned the Iraq war eight months before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 needs to read the two letters sent to then President ... More >>
Leopold: Bush Should Be Facing ‘A Long, Hard Slog’
Thursday, 15 January 2004, 1:54 pm | Jason Leopold
You’d think that President Bush would be facing, to quote Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a long, hard slog in his bid to recapture the White House for a second term what with all the information trickling out of the president’s administration ... More >>
Halliburton Won’t Back Off Doing Biz In Iran
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 4:28 pm | Jason Leopold
Halliburton Corp., the oil field services company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, told the New York City Comptroller’s office Monday that it won’t scale back its business dealings in Iran, despite concerns from the City’s Comptroller William ... More >>
