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  • Jun
  • 07
  • 2008

Why the White House is Unhappy With McClellan’s Memoir

Members of the Bush staff and cabinet are displeased with the contents of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new memoir, What Happened: Inside The Bush White House And Washington’s Culture Of Deception. What in the book is raising their ire?

McClellan and counterterrorism-adviser-turned-Bush-critic Richard A. Clarke used to sit in back of room during cabinet meetings, rolling their eyes and surreptitiously passing a flask of bourbon

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  • May
  • 16
  • 2008

Americas Decline Is Largely Self-Inflicted

In a month of horrific natural disasters it’s instructive to consider what one of the biggest UNnatural disasters in memory looks like. That is the decline in America’s position in the world from where we were when George W. Bush inherited power on Jan. 20, 2001.

The issue goes way beyond Bush's decision to invade Iraq in the middle of the war in Afghanistan. U.S. government literally broke down during the Bush years. The interagency process was destroyed as Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld set up what…

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  • Apr
  • 13
  • 2008

ACLU calls for independent counsel to investigate Bush administration’s approval of torture and abuse

Okay… NOW can we impeach these sons of bitches?

Recent reports indicate that high-level advisers including Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and George Tenet were part of the National Security Council’s “Principals Committee” that met…

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