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Jason Leopold: Powell Changes Tune On War Sans UN
Tuesday, 25 February 2003, 11:12 am | Jason Leopold
Powell Warned Bush Last Year Of Bloody War With Iraq Without UN Suport By Jason Leopold More >>
New Republic Chief Editor Tells Bush To Bomb Iraq
Friday, 21 February 2003, 1:18 pm | Jason Leopold
The New Republic , the 89 year-old “liberal” journal of politics and the arts, has shifted its editorial stance recently by publishing stories that support a war with Iraq and criticize the Democratic party for its weakness, according to a story in ... More >>
Rumsfeld & Bush's War Plan Was Formulated In 1998
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 11:08 am | Jason Leopold
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz undertook a full-fledged lobbying campaign in 1998 to get former President Bill Clinton to start a war with Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein’s regime claiming that the country posed ... More >>
Jason Leopold: It’s the Oil, Stupid
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 10:47 am | Jason Leopold
Why is it so difficult to accept the fact that America’s thirst for oil is the primary reason for waging a war against Iraq? For months, foreign journalists have reported that the United States has been running low on oil—a fact—and only by using military ... More >>
U.S. VP Cheney Off Hook As GAO Declines To Appeal
Monday, 10 February 2003, 2:55 pm | Jason Leopold
The identities of the people who advised Vice President Dick Cheney on the National Energy Policy—particularly those who work in the energy industry—will remain secret. More >>
A Slap On the Wrist For Ripping Off California
Monday, 3 February 2003, 10:20 am | Jason Leopold
One of the most damning pieces of evidence in the federal government’s investigation into California’s energy crisis emerged Friday, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that energy firms took part in a year-long scheme to boost the price of electricity ... More >>
SEC Should Probe Sale Of Army Secretary’s Mansion
Saturday, 1 February 2003, 11:14 am | Jason Leopold
A lifelong Army veteran with no corporate experience takes a job at an upstart energy company, earns tens of millions of dollars in questionable stock sales before the company goes belly up and lands a powerful position working in the administration ... More >>
Bush To Use Iraq War To Push Through Energy Policy
Friday, 31 January 2003, 9:59 pm | Jason Leopold
President Bush may try and use a possible war with Iraq to get Senate Republicans to push through his controversial energy plan, which calls for drilling in the environmentally sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, saying the country must begin to tap into ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Bush Turns To Propaganda
Monday, 27 January 2003, 10:27 am | Jason Leopold
President Bush said the Iraq conflict is like watching a “rerun of a bad movie.” But clearly, the only bad movie Americans are being forced to watch all over again are the Nixon-like qualities - the paranoia, the secrecy and lies - that Bush recycled ... More >>
Jason Leopold : Bush Sticks Closely To His Script
Friday, 17 January 2003, 9:11 am | Jason Leopold
Here's a history lesson. Go back to December 1999 when President Bush was still governor of Texas and wasn't even the Republican candidate for President yet. Back then, Bush Jr. had said that if elected President of the United States he would use ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The Return of Voo-Doo Economics
Tuesday, 14 January 2003, 12:57 am | Jason Leopold
This economic stuff is a bit confusing. President Bush says his $674 billion stimulus package--which boils down to huge tax cuts that mainly benefit the rich--will spur economic growth. In California, the nation's most populous state, Democratic Governor ... More >>
Rumsfeld Has Other Plans For Thomas White
Friday, 10 January 2003, 1:05 am | Jason Leopold
Secretary of the Army Thomas White, the former vice chairman of Enron, may have avoided the scandals that brought down his former colleagues at the one-time energy behemoth, but White’s got bigger problems these days that could make him the latest Bush appointee ... More >>
Enron and the Dodgy $8 million Army Fortress Scam
Thursday, 2 January 2003, 4:54 pm | Jason Leopold
Army Secretary Thomas White just put the finishing touches on a $4.6 million mansion in Naples, Florida, using funds some lawmakers have said White, the former vice chairman of Enron, obtained by selling his stock in the company using inside information. ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The Year According to Bush
Monday, 30 December 2002, 2:59 pm | Jason Leopold
President Bush put a positive spin on the sagging economy in his last weekly radio address of the year Saturday, going as far as to say that so-called measures his administration has adopted this year has actually resulted in economic growth that ... More >>
"I Wanna Riot, A Riot of My Own"
Tuesday, 24 December 2002, 7:03 pm | Jason Leopold
The Clash’s debut album never made its way to this side of the Atlantic when it was first released twenty-five years ago because it was considered to explosive for American audiences--not musically, but lyrically. This was, after all, a country that was ... More >>
The Story Behind The Damning Enron Videotape
Thursday, 19 December 2002, 9:53 am | Jason Leopold
The 1997 videotape that surfaced this week in which former Enron President Jeffrey Skilling jokes about the company using accounting sleight of hand so Enron could earn “a kazillion dollars” in earnings could prove to be more significant than the ... More >>
Shades Of Nixon In Cheney GAO Disclosure Decision
Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 3:09 pm | Jason Leopold
The dismissal of the General Accounting Office lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney is just another example of the veil of secrecy that permeates within the Bush administration and is a grim reminder of the dark days of former President Richard ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Wag the Bush
Monday, 2 December 2002, 11:39 am | Jason Leopold
What if this whole squabble with Iraq is just an attempt by President Bush to cover up a White House sex scandal? What if the President was caught getting it on with a girl scout in the Oval Office and was about to be exposed so he cooks up a phony ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Secrets And Lies In Cheney’s Closet
Wednesday, 20 November 2002, 9:13 pm | Jason Leopold
The front pages of California’s major daily newspapers were buzzing last week with fresh reports of one energy company ripping off the state in the spring of 2000 by deliberately keeping a power plant from generating electricity so the company could ... More >>
The Thomas E. White Affair – The Documents
Tuesday, 5 November 2002, 11:15 am | Jason Leopold
The following are the source documents (emails, charts and spreadsheets from Enron Energy Services) which were used by freelance journalist Jason Leopold for his expose about U.S. Army Secretary Thomas E. White’s direct involvement in crooked accounting ... More >>
