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White-House« Previous EntriesFunding the White House campaignSaturday, August 16th, 2008The road to the seat of power in the White House is not easy, and certainly not cheap. This year's US presidential race is on track to be the most expensive in history. Al Jazeera's senior Washington correspondent Rob Reynolds discovers there are some unconventional methods being used to finance the campaigns. tagged White-HouseWhite House ‘buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs’Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Tim Reid in Washington and Sam Coates in London | MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according to a new book. The book claimed that the former Prime Minister sent a top British spy to the Middle ... tagged UK-News and White-HouseGeorge Tenet And White House Admit Iraq Intelligence Chief Told Them Iraq Had No WMDTuesday, August 5th, 2008Ron Suskind was on NPR this morning to discuss his new book The Way of the World, which alleges Iraq's intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush told the US before the war that Iraq had no WMD. NPR asked George Tenet and the White House for comment, and, remarkably enough, they both essentially admitted this was true. SUSKIND: What we now know from this investigation is that a secret ... tagged Iraq and White-HouseGeneral Accuses White House of War CrimesThursday, June 19th, 2008 By Dan Froomkin | The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability.
In his 2004 report on Abu Ghraib, then-Major General Anthony Taguba concluded that "numerous incidents of sadistic, ...
tagged USA-News and White-HouseWhite House fed war propaganda to a “complicit” mediaFriday, May 30th, 2008 By Bill Van Auken | In a stunning blow to what very little remains of the Bush administration’s political credibility, the president’s former press secretary Scott McClellan has published a book indicting the White House for launching an “unnecessary” war in Iraq based on false “propaganda.”
Even more telling, particularly coming from an official who was in charge of dealing with ...
tagged Propaganda, USA-News and White-HouseOminous Signs That White House Wants More WarsTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Jim Lobe | Are the latest accusations and tough language leveled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea evidence of a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush hoping for a final confrontation against one or more members of the revised 'axis of evil' before his term next January?
That's the big question here this week, ...
tagged USA-News, Warfare and White-HouseWhite House Influence Is Cited in Corruption TrialThursday, April 24th, 2008 By Eric Lipton |
A prominent Illinois Republican Party leader may have tried to use his friendship with the former White House political aide Karl Rove to push for the ouster of the United States attorney in Chicago, a federal prosecutor said in court on Wednesday.
The accusation came in the trial of a Chicago-area political fund-raiser and businessman, Antoin Rezko, who is facing ...
tagged Law, USA-News and White-HouseTorturers in the White HouseTuesday, April 15th, 2008
By Ruth Conniff
The biggest news of the last week went virtually uncovered by the mainstream, print media. ABC News first reported last Wednesday that top Bush Administration officials, including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, and George Tenet, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld met to discuss which particular torture techniques should be used against Al Qaeda suspects ...
tagged Torture, USA-News and White-HouseNato to back US missile defenceThursday, April 3rd, 2008Nato countries have agreed to back US plans to site a missile defence system in Europe, at a summit in Romania. Member states will endorse a communiqué backing the plan to position missile defence bases in the Czech Republic and Poland, US officials said. Albania and Croatia were invited to join the 26-member alliance. But Georgia and Ukraine will not be put immediately on the path to membership, while Macedonia was told ... tagged Bush, USA-News and White-House’03 U.S. Memo Approved TortureWednesday, April 2nd, 2008WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2003 gave military interrogators broad authority to use extreme methods in questioning detainees and argued that wartime powers largely exempted interrogators from laws banning harsh treatment, according to a memorandum publicly disclosed on Tuesday. In a sweeping legal brief written in March 2003, when the Pentagon was struggling to determine the appropriate limits for its interrogators, the ... tagged Torture, USA-News and White-HouseBush calls for more eavesdroppingTuesday, April 1st, 2008 US President George W. Bush has called on the Congress to pass a 'vital' pending legislation aimed at loosening domestic eavesdropping rules. Speaking before leaving Washington for Kiev and the NATO summit in Bucharest on Monday, Bush said the US legislature has 'a lot of work to do' as ...
tagged Big-Brother, Bush, USA-News and White-HouseA third American war crime in the makingMonday, March 31st, 2008The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran. If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression -- a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard -- by the Bush Regime ... tagged USA-News, Warfare and White-HouseBush Aide Quits Over Misuse Of MoneySaturday, March 29th, 2008(AP) - An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization.Felipe Sixto was promoted on March 1 as a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and stepped forward on March 20 to reveal his alleged wrongdoing and to resign, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said on Friday. ... tagged Bush, USA-News and White-HouseBush Still Spinning Nukes in IranWednesday, March 19th, 2008The unanimous conclusion of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, that Iran ceased pursuing a program of nuclear weapons in 2003, has dealt a severe blow to the Bush-Cheney agenda of forcible regime change in Iran. For several months, the rhetoric emerging from the White House escalated to the point that many observers predicted Bush would attack Iran before he leaves office. But although the new National Intelligence Estimate ... tagged Bush, Iran, Military, Warfare and White-HouseYes, we do torture: White House finally comes cleanSaturday, February 9th, 2008PETER URBAN Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham can clear at least one task off his full plate. His criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes won't touch waterboarding. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told the House Judiciary Committee last week that his lawyers concluded that the CIA's use of waterboarding in 2002 and 2003 was legal. So the department cannot investigate whether a crime occurred. Two months ago, Mukasey called on Durham ... tagged CIA, Torture and White-House« Previous Entries |
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