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Leopold: Enron May Have Influenced FERC Probe
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 11:37 am | Jason Leopold
Emails Show Enron May Have Influenced FERC Probe On Calif Power Crisis, Refunds By Jason Leopold More >>
Jason Leopold: From Terminator To Deregulator
Friday, 10 October 2003, 11:45 am | Jason Leopold
Forget about the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking on a new role as Governor-elect of California: The Deregulator. More >>
Dems Scrap Probe Into WH Intel. On Iraqi Threats
Monday, 15 September 2003, 12:34 am | Jason Leopold
Democrats in Congress have abandoned their efforts to investigate the White House’s use of questionable intelligence information about Iraq’s alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, saying the issue has been “eclipsed” by President Bush’s request ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The Business of Electronic Voting
Tuesday, 2 September 2003, 5:23 pm | Jason Leopold
It seems fitting that a president who was brought into office because of a scandalous election would enact a law to overhaul the electoral process to make it easier for people to choose their leaders the second time around. More >>
Jason Leopold: Blackouts Happens
Wednesday, 20 August 2003, 11:30 am | Jason Leopold
The California energy crisis should have been a warning to the White House. Opening up the electricity sector to competition may eventually provide consumers with cheaper power but it won’t ensure a reliable flow of electricity unless the high-voltage ... More >>
Ahnuld, Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney & Gray Davis
Sunday, 17 August 2003, 3:10 pm | Jason Leopold
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t talking. The Hollywood action film star and California’s GOP gubernatorial candidate in the state’s recall election has been unusually silent about his plans for running the Golden State. He hasn’t yet offered up a solution ... More >>
Wolfowitz: Iraq Was Not Involved In 9-11 Attacks
Friday, 8 August 2003, 11:32 am | Jason Leopold
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, one of the main architects for the war in Iraq, admitted for the first time that Iraq had nothing to do with the September 11 terrorist attacks, contradicting public statements made by senior White House ... More >>
White House Used Iraqi Exile Info In SOTU
Wednesday, 30 July 2003, 5:16 pm | Jason Leopold
Last weekend, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained that the United States at times relied on ''murky'' intelligence in trying to link Iraq to the al-Qaeda terrorist group, but the war against Iraq was justified despite the fact that the ... More >>
CIA Probe Finds Pentagon Group Manipulated Intel.
Friday, 25 July 2003, 12:56 am | Jason Leopold
A half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2001, manipulated reams of intelligence information prepared by the spy agency on ... More >>
Tenet - Wolfowitz Ctte. Gave Dubious Intelligence
Saturday, 19 July 2003, 6:40 pm | Jason Leopold
When George Tenet, the director of the CIA, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week about dubious intelligence data on the Iraqi threat that made it into President Bush’s State of the Union address in January, he said an ad-hoc ... More >>
Wolfowitz Cttee. Advised Use Of Niger Uranium Ref.
Thursday, 17 July 2003, 9:44 am | Jason Leopold
Pentagon committee led by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, advised President Bush to include a reference in his January State of the Union address about Iraq trying to purchase 500 tons of uranium from Niger to bolster the case for war ... More >>
How To Justify Iraq War If WMD’s Aren’t Found?
Wednesday, 16 July 2003, 10:59 am | Jason Leopold
Since the start of the war in Iraq four months ago, 212 American soldiers have been killed, including 79 who have died since May 1, when President George Bush declared an end to major hostilities in Iraq. It’s unclear how many Iraqi civilians perished ... More >>
CIA Warned White House Last Oct On Forged Docs
Tuesday, 15 July 2003, 9:53 am | Jason Leopold
The CIA successfully got the White House last October to omit references to Iraq’s alleged attempts to purchase uranium from Niger because the agency concluded that the documents used to back up the allegations were forgeries, according to two Democratic ... More >>
Mini-War Prior to 9-11 May Explain Iraq Targeting
Friday, 11 July 2003, 9:53 am | Jason Leopold
While the Bush administration is beset by questions about the accuracy of intelligence information the President cited in building a case for war against Iraq, the White House hawks have still not fully explained how Iraq became a target of the administration ... More >>
Like Iraq, CIA Exaggerated Soviet Nuclear Threat
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 10:34 am | Jason Leopold
Two years ago the Central Intelligence Agency released reams of intelligence documents on the former Soviet Union that had been classified for nearly 30 years. The findings were damning: the CIA for more than 10 years greatly exaggerated the nuclear threat ... More >>
Seven Months Before 9/11 Said Iraq Posed No Threat
Friday, 27 June 2003, 4:43 pm | Jason Leopold
CIA Intelligence Reports Seven Months Before 9/11 Said Iraq Posed No Threat To U.S., Containment Was Working By Jason Leopold More >>
Jason Leopold: Wolfowitz Sought To Undermine Blix
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 11:50 am | Jason Leopold
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, was so eager to see the United States launch a preemptive strike against Iraq in early 2002, that he ordered the CIA to investigate the past work of Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector, ... More >>
Experts Questioning Iraq Intel Silenced Before War
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 11:48 am | Jason Leopold
Six months before the United States was dead-set on invading Iraq to rid the country of its alleged weapons of mass destruction, experts in the field of nuclear science warned officials in the Bush administration that intelligence reports showing Iraq ... More >>
Evidence Doesn’t Hold Up In Powell Denials On WMDs
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 10:31 am | Jason Leopold
The evidence, or lack thereof, speaks for itself. In the months leading up to the war in Iraq, the Bush administration produced hundreds of pages of intelligence for members of Congress and for the United Nations that showed how Iraq’s President Saddam ... More >>
War Based On Shaky Evidence & Wrong Intelligence
Wednesday, 4 June 2003, 10:58 am | Jason Leopold
Here’s what we know so far about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction: of the 600 or so sites identified by United States intelligence and Iraqi officials as places where the country biological weapons may be hidden, about 100 of these sites have ... More >>
