- Bush Said to Approve Post-Sept. 11 Eavesdropping (p)(f)
A report in The New York Times Friday says in 2002, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the international phone calls and e-mails of hundreds of people inside the United States. The surveillance went on for years and was conducted without court approval in order to search for evidence of terrorist activity. NPR Audio
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- Bush Says U.S. Spy Program Is Legal and Essential - New York Times (p)(f)
President Bush offered a vigorous and detailed defense of his previously secret electronic-surveillance program today, calling it a legal and essential tool in the battle against terrorism and saying that whoever disclosed it had committed a "shameful act." NYT Dec 19, 2005
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- Bush Seals Files Seized In FBI Probe Of Jefferson (p)(f)
President Bush ordered the Justice Department yesterday to seal records seized from the Capitol Hill office of a Democratic congressman, representing a remarkable intervention by the nation's chief executive into an ongoing criminal probe of alleged corruption. May 26, 2006
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- Bush the Incompetent (p)(f)
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- Bush Was Set on Path to War, British Memo Says - New York Times (p)(f)
During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, [Bush] made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair`s top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.
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- Bush won't reauthorize U.S. eavesdropping program (p)(f)
President Bush has decided not to renew a program of domestic spying on terrorism suspects, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Wednesday, ending a tactic criticized for infringing on civil liberties. Jan 17, 2007
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- Bush`s Fumbles Spur New Talk of Oversight on Hill (p)(f)
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- Bush`s Obstruction of History (p)(f)
Bush`s 2001 decree allows former presidents and their heirs to bar the release of documents for almost any reason. It flies in the face of congressional intent and forces our nation`s leading historians to take legal action if they want to gain access to documents. Washington Post, Feb 27, 2006 Editorial
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- Bush-Blair Iraq war memo revealed (p)(f)
The New York Times says it has seen a memo which shows that the US president was firmly set on the path to war two months before the 2003 Iraq invasion. BBC March 27, 2006
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- Bush, Blair Concede Missteps on Iraq (p)(f)
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last night acknowledged a series of errors in managing the occupation of Iraq that have made the conflict more difficult and more damaging to the U.S. image abroad, even as they insisted that enough progress has been made that other nations should support the nascent Iraqi government. May 26, 2006
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- Bush's Potential CIA Pick Worries Some (p)(f)
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- Cabinet Officer's Veracity Faces a Test (p)(f)
The inspector general at the Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating an episode in which HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson bragged that he yanked a federal contract for political reasons and then changed his story and said he made the whole thing up. May 13, 2006;
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- Censorship Is Alleged at NOAA (p)(f)
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- CEOs Urge Bush to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions - washingtonpost.com (f)
On the eve of the State of the Union address, the chief executives of 10 major corporations urged President Bush to embrace mandatory ceilings on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in order to stem climate change. See US-CAP.com Jan 23, 2007
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- Cheney Says New Unit Will Prove Tax Cuts Boost Revenue (p)(f)
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- Churches Still Await Katrina Aid (p)(f)
But six months later, Bishop T.D. Jakes, one of the ministers selected by Bush, said that not a dime of the $20 million designated for faith organizations along the Gulf Coast has arrived. Washignton Post, March 2, 2006 A10
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- CIA abduction claims `credible` (p)(f)
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- CIA Learned in '02 That Bin Laden Had No Iraq Ties, Report Says - washingtonpost.com (p)(f)
The CIA learned in late September 2002 from a high-level member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle that Iraq had no past or present contact with Osama bin Laden and that the Iraqi leader considered bin Laden an enemy of the Baghdad regime, according to a recent Senate Intelligence Committee report. Sep 15, 2006
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- Citizens Mitigate Dangerous Excavation on Muirkirk (p)(f)
This is not a "pothole story". This is about someone who created and left a very dangerous situation in our community. Jan 14, 2007
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- Classifying Toothpaste (p)(f)
All were once freely available but -- in a fit of bureaucratic overzealousness -- have since been reclassified under a secret government program to disappear historical documents from public view. Washington Post, Feb 27, 2006 A14
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