The Bush Record: Top 5 Scandals
1. Misleading the Nation Into War
2. Lying to the Nation During the State of the Union
3. Exposing a Covert CIA Agent for Revenge
4. Halliburton and Dick Cheney
5. Lying About Medicare Costs and Threatening Whistleblowers
http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/top5_scandals
Please feel free to add more! (e.g., Gannongate, Delaygate, Memogate)
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"Tom DeLay is not a likeable man. Some part of him has always known this, it seems, and has avoided the spotlight the way a cockroach or a beetle will, less out of a conscious sense of self preservation than because to operate in shadows and dark places is part of the creature's fundamental nature."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/artic.../15_crooks.html
6.Involvement in the event that led to the death of 3,030, in 11 September 2001.
Top 11 reasons to ignore the Downing Street Minutes (a.k.a. The Downing Street Memo).
11. They're poorly translated.
10. Michael Jackson isn't mentioned.
9. Thought that any effort to "fix" Bush's intelligence would have been applauded.
8. Britain and the US were already bombing Iraq in an attempt to provoke a response from Hussein as a justification war.
See the rest:
http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/top1...e_downingst.htm
11. They're poorly translated.
10. Michael Jackson isn't mentioned.
9. Thought that any effort to "fix" Bush's intelligence would have been applauded.
8. Britain and the US were already bombing Iraq in an attempt to provoke a response from Hussein as a justification war.
See the rest:
http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/top1...e_downingst.htm
Bush Family Tradition: Ducking Scandal
By Robert Parry
July 15, 2005
If there is one trait that has followed the Bush family through generations of privilege, it is the ability to escape scandal – a skill that will be put to the test again over the leaking of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, apparently to get back at her husband for criticizing George W. Bush’s case for invading Iraq.
The criminal investigation into who revealed Valerie Plame’s identity – and endangered clandestine operatives working with her – has been building for two years. But it is finally reaching critical mass with the disclosure that Bush’s political guru Karl Rove discussed Plame’s CIA work with Time correspondent Matthew Cooper in July 2003.
Rove appears to have been part of a P.R. campaign to punish Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for writing an article on July 6, 2003, that the administration had reason to doubt claims about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium when Bush cited that dramatic allegation in his State of the Union address in January 2003.
A United Nations agency debunked the yellowcake claim in March 2003 – finding that it was based on forged documents – but Rove and other Bush allies still went on the offensive against Wilson in July 2003. Their primary line of attack was to assert that his CIA wife had authorized his trip to Niger in 2002 to check out the allegations.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/071405.html
By Robert Parry
July 15, 2005
If there is one trait that has followed the Bush family through generations of privilege, it is the ability to escape scandal – a skill that will be put to the test again over the leaking of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, apparently to get back at her husband for criticizing George W. Bush’s case for invading Iraq.
The criminal investigation into who revealed Valerie Plame’s identity – and endangered clandestine operatives working with her – has been building for two years. But it is finally reaching critical mass with the disclosure that Bush’s political guru Karl Rove discussed Plame’s CIA work with Time correspondent Matthew Cooper in July 2003.
Rove appears to have been part of a P.R. campaign to punish Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for writing an article on July 6, 2003, that the administration had reason to doubt claims about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium when Bush cited that dramatic allegation in his State of the Union address in January 2003.
A United Nations agency debunked the yellowcake claim in March 2003 – finding that it was based on forged documents – but Rove and other Bush allies still went on the offensive against Wilson in July 2003. Their primary line of attack was to assert that his CIA wife had authorized his trip to Niger in 2002 to check out the allegations.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/071405.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/28/173835/72
Sen. Kennedy's Diary:
As we know, Scooter Libby and Vice President Cheney withheld critical documents in the Senate's investigation of the use and misuse of intelligence and the abuse of power in the decision to go to war and in the management of the war.
These documents must be handed over, because the American people deserve answers.
That is why I'm urging the White House to hand over those documents
-- and asking you to join me in doing so. We need as many Americans as possible to join us in the next few days to show the White House that we are not letting this indictment be the end.
Please join me at my website
The White House has made keeping secrets from the American people a priority, and that has to stop.
The American people know the high cost of this misguided war -- 2,000 U.S. soldiers dead, more than 15,000 wounded, hundreds of billions of dollars spent with no end in sight, and a continuing shameful effort by the White House to silence those who try to tell the truth about the war.
We need answers, not cover-ups, by the Administration about these serious issues. Thank you for all your support in trying to get the truth.
"I ask the White House to turn over all documents withheld from the United States Senate during its investigation of the use of intelligence during the planning of the Iraq war."
http://www.tedkennedy.com/page/petition/iraqdocuments
Sen. Kennedy's Diary:
As we know, Scooter Libby and Vice President Cheney withheld critical documents in the Senate's investigation of the use and misuse of intelligence and the abuse of power in the decision to go to war and in the management of the war.
These documents must be handed over, because the American people deserve answers.
That is why I'm urging the White House to hand over those documents
-- and asking you to join me in doing so. We need as many Americans as possible to join us in the next few days to show the White House that we are not letting this indictment be the end.
Please join me at my website
The White House has made keeping secrets from the American people a priority, and that has to stop.
The American people know the high cost of this misguided war -- 2,000 U.S. soldiers dead, more than 15,000 wounded, hundreds of billions of dollars spent with no end in sight, and a continuing shameful effort by the White House to silence those who try to tell the truth about the war.
We need answers, not cover-ups, by the Administration about these serious issues. Thank you for all your support in trying to get the truth.
"I ask the White House to turn over all documents withheld from the United States Senate during its investigation of the use of intelligence during the planning of the Iraq war."
http://www.tedkennedy.com/page/petition/iraqdocuments
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to announcement this afternoon by Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) that he would resign from the House of Representatives after pleading guilty to conspiracy and tax charges:
"Mr. Cunningham accepted a bribe to perform an official act - an egregious action that strikes at the very heart of our democracy and dishonors the people he has been elected to represent; it is only proper that he resign.
"This offense is just the latest example of the culture of corruption that pervades the Republican-controlled Congress, which ignores the needs of the American people to serve wealthy special interests and their cronies. The Republican Congress has the wrong priorities; it is time to restore a high ethical standard to the Congress."
http://www.usnewswire.com/
"Mr. Cunningham accepted a bribe to perform an official act - an egregious action that strikes at the very heart of our democracy and dishonors the people he has been elected to represent; it is only proper that he resign.
"This offense is just the latest example of the culture of corruption that pervades the Republican-controlled Congress, which ignores the needs of the American people to serve wealthy special interests and their cronies. The Republican Congress has the wrong priorities; it is time to restore a high ethical standard to the Congress."
http://www.usnewswire.com/
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