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McCain's Nuclear Policy Identical to Bush Admin's
Saturday, 21 June 2008, 4:21 pm | Jason Leopold
GOP Presidential candidate John McCain’s ambitious plan to build 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 as a means to combat global warming and add juice to the power grid is a policy ripped from the Bush administration’s failed National Energy Policy, ... More >>
Interrogation Methods Were Developed at Guantanamo
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 10:34 am | Jason Leopold
Top Pentagon officials developed the harsh interrogation methods used against detainees at Guantanamo less than a month before the Justice Department issued two now repudiated memorandums that gave interrogators legal cover to employ the tactics, according ... More >>
Judge Rules in Missing Email Case
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 7:40 pm | Jason Leopold
Congressman Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued a subpoena Monday morning to the Attorney General Michael Mukasey demanding he turn over the FBI’s interview transcripts of President Bush ... More >>
Waxman Subpoenas DOJ for Bush, Cheney's Plame-Leak
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 7:36 pm | Jason Leopold
Congressman Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued a subpoena Monday morning to the Attorney General Michael Mukasey demanding he turn over the FBI’s interview transcripts of President Bush ... More >>
McClellan May Shed Light on Niger Forgeries
Monday, 16 June 2008, 9:45 pm | Jason Leopold
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s testimony later this week before the House Judiciary Committee promises to reignite the debate over the “16 words” in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address that claimed Iraq ... More >>
Rumsfeld Personally Approved Brutal Interrogations
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 3:39 pm | Jason Leopold
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally authorized the use of brutal interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay despite warnings from the FBI that the methods amounted to inhumane treatment, was ... More >>
Kucinich Vows New Round of Impeachment Articles
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 3:36 pm | Jason Leopold
Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Congressman and former 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate, said he would continue to introduce resolutions calling for the removal of President George W. Bush from office if the articles of impeachment against Bush that he presented ... More >>
Kucinich Introduces Articles For Bush Impeachment
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 8:16 pm | Jason Leopold
Ohio Congressman and former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush today, alleging the commander-in-chief is guilty of a wide-range of constitutional violations including launching a war ... More >>
House Dems Want Bush Admin Investigated for Crimes
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 3:13 pm | Jason Leopold
House Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey Friday requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether White House officials, including President Bush, violated the War Crimes Act when they allowed interrogators ... More >>
McClellan to Testify Before Congress
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 1:43 pm | Jason Leopold
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next week about the White House’s role in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. More >>
Abramoff Had Closer Ties to Bush
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 1:19 pm | Jason Leopold
Imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff was photographed with President George W. Bush at least five times and had hundreds of lobbying contacts with White House staff, a House committee’s draft report says. More >>
Judge May Reopen Case Against VA
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 12:02 am | Jason Leopold
A federal court judge in San Francisco demanded that Justice Department attorneys representing the Veterans Administration explain why an email written by a top VA official who asked staffers to diagnose fewer cases of post traumatic stress disorder ... More >>
Cheney: Iranian Sanctions Were Bad for Halliburton
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 11:59 am | Jason Leopold
When Dick Cheney was chief executive of Halliburton in the 1990s, he urged Congress to ease sanctions against Iran and enter into diplomatic discussions with the country’s leaders so the oil-field services company could legally do business there. More >>
The Lobbyist Whom McCain Won't Fire
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 11:51 am | Jason Leopold
John McCain has been purging lobbyists from his campaign trying to reclaim the mantle of political reformer, but there’s one lobbyist whose role as a key economic adviser makes him almost untouchable despite ties to the sub-prime debacle, links to the ... More >>
Bush Vowed US Would "Kill" Anyone Who Interfered
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 11:50 am | Jason Leopold
President Bush reacted to the deaths of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah in 2004 by proclaiming in a hastily arranged video conference with officials that the United States would "kill" anyone who threatened to derail the "march to Democracy" ... More >>
Libby Links Cheney to Plame Leak
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 11:48 am | Jason Leopold
FBI documents obtained by a congressional committee indicate that Vice President Dick Cheney may have authorized his former deputy to leak the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. More >>
Bush at Center of Intelligence Leak?
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:50 pm | Jason Leopold
Editor’s Note: In light of explosive revelations made Thursday morning by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan claiming that President Bush ordered the leak of classified information in the CIA leak case, The Public Record is republishing ... More >>
US Soldiers Launch Campaign to Convert Iraqis
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:35 pm | Jason Leopold
Some U.S. military personnel appears to have launched an initiative to covert thousands of Iraqi citizens to Christianity by distributing Bibles and other fundamentalist Christian literature translated into Arabic to Iraqi Muslims. More >>
Jason Leopold: McClellan Suggests Plame Cover-up
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:21 pm | Jason Leopold
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan says George W. Bush’s political guru Karl Rove arranged a private meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in 2005 when the two men were under mounting ... More >>
GOP Contender Linked to Attorney Firing
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 1:23 pm | Jason Leopold
Though virtually unknown outside the Albuquerque area, Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White is betting that his conservative credentials and close ties to the White House will help Republicans retain the hotly contested New Mexico congressional seat ... More >>
