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Rove Protégé May Dig for Dirt on Obama
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 7:24 pm | Jason Leopold
Timothy Griffin, a central figure in the U.S. Attorney scandal and a protégé of Republican political guru Karl Rove, reportedly has been hired to dig up dirt on likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. More >>
McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 9:30 am | Jason Leopold
Sen. John McCain says he opposes the $307 billion farm bill because it would dole out wasteful subsidies, but his chief economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to stop its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused ... More >>
Bush Operative Pushes Voter-ID Law
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 9:28 am | Jason Leopold
A senior legal adviser to the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign is working behind the scenes to help enact a Missouri state constitutional amendment that critics say would suppress the vote in the key battleground state this November by requiring ... More >>
Torture Policies Undermine 9/11 Case
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:34 am | Jason Leopold
The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks, again underscores the consequences of the Bush administration’s descent into torture and other abusive treatment of ... More >>
Lost E-Mails Obscure 'Plame-gate'
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 5:26 pm | Jason Leopold
Earlier this week, the White House disclosed that it could not recover lost e-mails from emergency backup tapes for the period covering the invasion of Iraq and the U.S. failure to find Iraq’s alleged WMD. More >>
Military Coordinated Prayer With Christian Right
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 11:23 am | Jason Leopold
At least half-a-dozen active-duty military officials have been working closely with a task force headed by the far-right fundamentalist Christians planning religious events at military installations around the country to commemorate Thursday’s National ... More >>
Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts Cheney
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 9:48 pm | Jason Leopold
Dick Cheney’s tenure at Halliburton ended eight years ago, but a federal investigation of alleged bribes from a company subsidiary to Nigerian officials lingers from the Cheney era, raising questions about what the Vice President knew or should have known. More >>
The Bush Team's Geneva Hypocrisy
Saturday, 26 April 2008, 11:14 am | Jason Leopold
Newly released U.S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Convention’s protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the ... More >>
Book Documents Widespread Election Fraud
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 5:37 pm | Jason Leopold
Earlier this month, at a conference in San Francisco, several renowned computer scientists warned that electronic voting machines remain vulnerable to computer hackers due to serious security flaws in the operating software, calling into question the integrity ... More >>
VA Concealed Extent of Attempted Veteran Suicides
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 9:05 pm | Jason Leopold
Top officials at the Veterans Administration tried to conceal information from the public about the sudden increase of attempted suicides among veterans that were treated or sought help at VA hospitals around the country, a previously undisclosed internal ... More >>
Torture Question Hovers Over Chertoff
Monday, 21 April 2008, 10:50 am | Jason Leopold
John Yoo and some other Bush administration lawyers who built the legal framework for torture are now out of the U.S. government, but one still holds a Cabinet-level rank – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. More >>
FBI Email: Bush Signed Harsh Interrogation Order
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 12:15 am | Jason Leopold
President George W. Bush’s comment to ABC News – that he approved discussions that his top aides held about harsh interrogation techniques – adds credence to claims from senior FBI agents in Iraq in 2004 that Bush had signed an Executive Order ... More >>
Iraq War Costs Skyrocketing
Friday, 11 April 2008, 2:53 pm | Jason Leopold
Nearly all of the $516 billion allocated by Congress to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has come in the form of emergency spending requests, a method the White House has abused, depriving Congress the ability to scrutinize how the Pentagon spends ... More >>
'Power of the Purse' - Changing the Iraq Strategy
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 4:36 pm | Jason Leopold
Tuesday’s highly anticipated Congressional testimony by General David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, appeared to be an exercise in futility. More >>
DOJ Asked How Bush Could Sidestep Fourth Amendment
Monday, 7 April 2008, 12:41 am | Jason Leopold
Earlier this week, the Pentagon declassified an 81-page memorandum John Yoo, a former deputy in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, drafted in March 2003 that authorized military interrogators to use brutal techniques to obtain information ... More >>
Building a Legal Framework for Torture
Saturday, 5 April 2008, 11:31 am | Jason Leopold
On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon's top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. More >>
Death of Prisoner Justified If in ‘Good Faith’
Saturday, 5 April 2008, 11:27 am | Jason Leopold
Mary Walker, the former Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/011703haynes.pdf from the Pentagon's top attorney on Jan. 17, 2003. More >>
Chaplain Who Called for Attack on Islam Fired
Saturday, 29 March 2008, 2:29 pm | Jason Leopold
A top Navy chaplain who wrote a book several years ago attacking Islam, calling the religion “evil,” and urging the United States to launch a “jihad” against the faith, has been fired from a prestigious theological institute after officials ... More >>
Classified Memo Reveals Iraqi Prisoners "Starving"
Friday, 28 March 2008, 4:26 pm | Jason Leopold
A classified memo written by a top military official stationed in Western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene for human beings.” More >>
IBM, Darrell Issa, and Millions of “Lost” Emails
Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 7:11 pm | Jason Leopold
At a Congressional committee hearing in February, Theresa Payton, the chief information officer at the White House Office of Administration, testified that White House emails sent and received between 2003 and 2005 fell into a virtual black hole when the Bush ... More >>
