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This section of Right Web profiles the many individuals who have played a key role in shaping, promoting, and/or implementing the Bush administration's weapons programs, foreign policies, and interventionist strategies.	People for the American way	CBS 60 Minutes: Interviews former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill
	The Bush family fortunes	Video: Bob Woodward: 60 Minutes Interview. Windows Media Player
June 2007

Look what you Constitution-loving law-and-order types have done, y'all made a grown man cry. For shame! Bonus: He feels that public service isn't worth it if you can't subvert the Justice department to protect a culture of corruption and engage in election fraud. 6-15

Bush says it's time to act on immigration, especially as it's doing a wonderful job of distracting you from the ongoing scandals involving election fraud, stacking the Justice department, various violations of the Constitution, wiretapping, and some thing over in Iraq 6-15

Bush Pushes Iraq Oil Law for ExxonMobil 6-15

FEMA may have authorized flood insurance overbilling 6-15

Judge to Scooter Libby: do not pass Go, do not collect $200. S

Subpoenaed: Harriet Miers, and his ex-political director, Sara Taylor. 6-14

Bush hires corporate lobbyist as new aide. 6-14

Bush protects his law-breaking buddies at Enron 6-14

Judge in Libby trial receiving threats. 6-14

Testimony From Doan Misconduct Hearing 6-14

Kucinich working on 'renewed efforts' for Cheney impeachment 6-14

Fred Thompson (R-actor) portrays himself as a Washington 'outsider'. He's actually been a lobbyist for years. 6-14

Fred Thompson’s voting record. 6-14

Justice Dept. official "revises" his testimony regarding voter-fraud case. 6-14

Your faith based tax dollars at work 6-14

Guiliani Claims Clinton’s Response To U.S.S. Cole Terror Attack Was ‘Let It Go’ 6-14

Ministers and the president of the local chapter of the NAACP announce support for Jefferson, think freezers make great piggy banks 6-14

Prez hopeful Mike Gravel: "Our whole drug policy is insane" 6-14

GOP issues pointers on avoiding "macaca moments". 6-14

The FBI is trying to improve its image among Arab Americans. So they decided to book Arab comedians for the next conference of FBI recruiters this fall. And put up posters that say "Today's FBI - it's for you. 6-14

The Homeland Security bill Bush is threatening to veto would increase the number of border patrol agents by 3000. 6-14

FBI confuses 3 year old toddler for dead terrorist 6-14

Mitt Romney open to Scooter pardon. But when Gov. of Mass., he twice refused to pardon a decorated Iraq War vet convicted at age 13 of assault with a BB gun which didn't break the skin, denying the vet the chance to become a police officer 6-14

New Jersey State Supreme Court: For land to be taken against the owner's wishes it must be "blighted" and not merely "not fully productive." 6-14

Tax Resister: Feds are going in. 6-14

The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America is a Myth 6-14

Supreme Court to unions: No, you can't use dues for political purposes without direct permission from workers. 6-14

BREAKING: Top White House Officials Subpoenaed Over Attorney Scandal 6-13

Newly released e-mails show Rove assistants were deeply involved in Attorney firings. 6-13

Prosecutor Fitzgerald: Put Libby In Jail Now 6-13

Freedom of Information act stalled by secret hold 6-13

Supreme Court delivers the shaft to home health care workers: says businesses do not have to pay overtime, minimum wage to caregivers for elderly, infirm. 6-13

For the second time in a week,” lobbyists for major polluters visited the White House last Friday “in an effort to influence the US EPA’s upcoming proposed standards for smog.” 6-13

Transportation Dept. caught lobbying Congress to oppose efforts by states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 6-13

Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on authorizing subpoenas of NSA eavesdropping program 6-13

Office Of Special Counsel: Fire Lurita Doan 6-13

Paul McNulty, who recently resigned as Deputy Attorney General, will testify before House Judiciary Committee. 6-13

Senate Rules Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on Bush’s FEC nominee Hans von Spakovsky, six former Justice Department career professionals wrote a letter urging the committee to reject von Spakovsky 6-13

US Court to Hear Autism-Vaccine Suits 6-13

U.S. officials deny Bush lost wristwatch while wading into adoring crowd in Albania 6-13

Bush's Watch Stolen: THE DEFINATIVE VIDEO 6-13

Mitt Romney on pardons: War hero? No Way. Scooter Libby? Heck yeah! 6-13

Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar: When Bush leaves office, this country will have to begin the difficult task of reversing some very bad trends in the military, fiscal, monetary and energy areas. The pollution of his legacy transcends mere politics. 6-13

Rep. Barney Frank: "The real [Mitt] Romney is clearly an extraordinarily ambitious man with no perceivable political principle whatsover. He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics." 6-13

Resurrecting Reagan 6-13

The Neocon Threat to World Peace and American Freedom 6-13

Rift Between Army and White House Widens 6-13

Joint Chiefs Nominee: Military Stretched Too Thin 6-13

Court rules in favor of Constitution, against Bush administration. 6-11

Lieberman says strike on Iran is an option 6-11

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has called for the immediate closure of the US military prison in Guantanamo 6-11

Former director of the Justice Department’s Office of Information and Privacy, said Attorney General Gonzales ran the department like “a political arm of the White House.” 6-11

Sen. Kyl feels that taking a no-confidence vote against Gonzales for politicizing the DOJ would be too 'political' 6-11

GOP Senator Responds To Gonzales "No Confidence" Vote By Calling For One On Congress 6-11

What a dictator looks like: Bush Calls Today's Vote of no confidence on Attorney General `Meaningless' 6-11

Recent Bush Admin Immigration Judges: Half Have No Experience, Third Have GOP Ties 6-11

Scooter Libby’s lawyers urged the judge not to publicly release letters written in support of their client, given “the real possibility that these letters, once released, would be published on the Internet and their authors discussed 6-11

The grand list of Bush administration scandals. 6-11

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has sought out former Secretary of State Colin Powell for advice on foreign policy matters. 6-11

Edwards Courts Shallow-Pocket Voters 6-11

John McCain admits he has lost sleep over the fact that Paris Hilton is in jail 6-11

The office of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt called Sen. Craig Thomas's (R-WY) office Thursday afternoon to request a meeting with the late senator 6-11

Potential GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has promoted public policy positions that closely track the financial interests of companies that underwrite a think tank he founded. 6-11

Richardson: "I Would Leave No Troops In Iraq Whatsoever" 6-11

Republicans have lost the valuable rural vote because of the war 6-11

Remember how the wingnuts freaked out about Pelosi wearing a veil? 6-11

CIA Plans Cutbacks, Limits on Contractor Staffing 6-11

Officers paint a bleak picture of law enforcement: There are too many miles, too few officers, too many calls and not enough money to properly protect thousands of people in the Great Plains. 6-11

Justice Department firing squad targets Indian country: Native people, and their votes, are among the main targets of one of the most brazen Republican cover-ups since Watergate. 6-11

The CIA takes a break from hiding bodies and shipping prisoners off to secret torture prisons to denounce a report that says this is exactly what they are doing 6-10

‘Inappropriate’ Call To Justice Official May Have Forced Election-Timed Indictments 6-10

Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA), tired AG Gonzales stonewalling, issue their ninth formal request for documents relating to Bush's domestic surveillance 6-10

A PowerPoint file posted on the Defense Intelligence Agency's website reveals the actual budget of that agency, which is supposed to be classified. 6-10

Lobbyists having to adjust to new culture on capital hill. One not of corruption. 6-10

Corruption Gone Wild 6-10

NRA, Democrats agree on background-check bill'. Republicans have now been replaced by their lobbyists 6-10

Friday's headlines can be read here while the site is going through routine maintenance. 6-8

Someone new pleads guilty in Abramoff scandal... The head of a Republican environmental advocacy group. Yeah... Republican environmental advocacy group. LOL 6-7

Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps, Punished Justice Official Who Questioned Domestic Spying 6-7

US Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) has become the fifth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney 6-7

Rove's playbook for the Attorney scandal found-- And it dates back to Watergate 6-7

Federalist Society implicated in plan to plan to fire U.S. attorneys 6-7

McCain and Guiliani to skip Iowa straw poll to instead hide behind terrorist strawmen 6-7

The USDA will is fighting a ruling by a federal judge that would allow meatpackers to test all their animals for mad cow disease. Seriously. 6-7

Amendment to immigration reform bill that would bar felons from becoming citizens voted down. The Senate actually voted to allow felons to become citizens 6-7

Bush's nominee for Surgeon General has an obsessive hatred of homosexuals, and obsession with buttsecks. 6-7

Support letter for Scooter Libby written on official Department of Health and Human Services stationery, violating federal policy. 6-7

Bridge to nowhere leads to Coconut Road 6-7

Pentagon's acquisition chief and Sec Def advisor suddenly resigns, wants to "spend more time with his family". Hey, you're supposed to wait until Friday 6-7

Goodling In Private Email: ‘Send Directly Up To Me, Outside The System’ 6-7

Justice Dept. Still Quietly Pushing False Voter Fraud Claims 6-7

Bush DOJ repeatedly refused to enforce federal voter registration law that helped poor people register to vote 6-7

Ray Nagin positions himself to fill William Jefferson's shoes if he loses his seat. 6-7

Lynne Cheney has been named as a possible replacement for Senator Craig Thomas 6-7

Memo: McCain Adviser Mark McKinnon Plans To Quit If Obama Wins Nomination 6-7

Rove-Protege Tim Griffin Joins Thompson Campaign 6-7

When confronted by a lesbian mother of two, Mitt Romney replied, "That's the American way. People can live their lives as they choose." Of course, he'll make sure they have fewer actual choices 6-7

Mayor: Feds "Terrorized" Fair Haven. "I had a report from Fair Haven that the streets are deserted, all activity, economic and otherwise has stopped, and stores are closed." 6-7

Project for New American Century strikes again 6-7

"Top Tier" GOP candidates are finally able to win an online straw poll...all they had to do was kick Ron Paul off the ballot 6-7

McCain thinks Americans will be "satisfied" with occupation of Iraq for another 50 years. 6-7

Senate Judiciary Committee announced it was preparing to approve legislation to restore habeas corpus on Thursday. 6-6

Dick Cheney 'deeply saddened' by the Scooter Libby 'tragedy' 6-6

Justice Department official Bradley Schlozman claims party affiliation is irrelevant to the hiring decision for a career position, then admits to bragging about the number of Republicans he hired (vid) 6-6

Schlozman’s Inadvertent Confession: Any Group That Works With Minorities Is ‘Liberal’ 6-6

Leahy To Schlozman: ‘You’re Trying To Break Gonzales’ Record’ Of Saying ‘I Don’t Recall’ 6-6

Bradley Schlozman 101: How To Politicize The Justice Department 6-6

The House ordered a speedy internal investigation that could oust indicted Rep. William J. Jefferson from Congress before his bribery trial, unlike the previous House. 6-6

Jefferson steps down from House panel 6-6

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has approved a proposal that would allow an independent outside panel to decide which ethics complaints merit investigation by House ethics committee. 6-6

Report Bashes Rice Leadership Of State Dept: Staff Shortages, Low Morale, Few Resources 6-6

House oversight committee is expanding its investigation “into ties between jailed GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House 6-6

Gonzales Contradicts His Sworn Testimony About Bush’s Warrantless Spying Program 6-6

McCain, Brownback, like Clinton, didn't read Iraq NIE prior to crucial vote 6-6

Boehner: Immigration Bill Is "Piece Of Sh*t" 6-6

Libby's PNAC pals pen letters of support 6-6

DHS overflowing with political appointees. 6-6

Audience cheers as Tancredo slams Bush. 6-6

Randall Tobias, who resigned his U.S. State Department post in April after his name was linked to an alleged prostitution ring, will be honored as a Living Legend next month by the Indiana Historical Society 6-6

Scooter Libby gets 30 months in prison 6-5

Rep. Jefferson (D-90kinthefreezer) preparing to pack bags for prison 6-5

Wyoming Senator Craig Thomas Dead At Age 74 6-5

Some facts on former Cheney aide Lewis Libby (R-PNAC). 6-5

Judges Toss Cases Against Only Two Guantanamo Inmates Facing Charges 6-5

Federal prosecutors are seeking an indictment today against Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-90kinthefreezer) 6-5

The Bush-enabling Democrat-controlled Congress is just as unpopular as the Bush-enabling Republican-controlled Congress was 6-5

Former Enron COO Sentenced To Two Years In Federal Prison 6-5

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led U.S. forces in the first year of the Iraq war: Iraq is lost. 6-5

Griffin Altered NASA Mission Statement To Remove Global Warming Reference 6-5

NSA launches marketing blitz. 6-5

US Waited Nearly One Week To Notify Other Nations About Deadly TB 6-5

While President Bush continues to anger the world with his plans for a missile defense system in Western Europe, Congress and the Senate are systematically defunding it 6-5

Ron Paul: "...the naysayers... predict disaster in the Middle East if we do [leave Iraq]. Of course, these merchants of fear are the same ones who predicted that invading and occupying Iraq would be a slam dunk operation." 6-5

Condoleezza Rice: "Disagreeing with your government is not unpatriotic and it most surely should not be a crime in any country, especially in a democracy," If you guessed she is not referring to the US, you are correct. 6-5

House Democrats January 2008: We will put an end to unidentified earmarks in spending bills June 2008: "Just kidding" 6-4

Arkansas GOP leader suggests more attacks on US to bolster support for Bush. 6-4

Federal prosecutors are seeking an indictment today against Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-90kinthefreezer) 6-5

Meet America's Praetorian Guard 6-4

Whitehouse Chevron representative at odds with Whitehouse Halliburton rep. 6-4

Whitehouse Chevron representative notes Whitehouse Bechtel rep’s efforts to “sideline” her. 6-4

U.S. House may prevent states from protecting food supply 6-4

Refresher: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease 5-31

Connecticut passes law to limit use of eminent domain. 6-4

GOP base deserting Bush over non-amnesty amnesty deal. 6-4

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., Ties War in Iraq to Homegrown Terrorism 6-4

Price of photo-op with Bush keeps dropping 6-4

Edwards: War On Terror A "Bumper Sticker." Hillary: Bush Made Us Safer 6-4

Conservatives Who Called For Gonzales’ Resignation Silent On No-Confidence Vote 6-4

Out of all the many media mergers this year, the Administration goes after only one with anti-trust action: The one involving a paper known for its investigative reporting 6-4

Another Friday resignation: Ex-Rove aide, Tim Griffin, quits U.S. attorney job after Congressman John Conyers requested evidence on Griffin’s involvement ‘caging voters.’ 6-2

Bush gives mothers of fallen soldiers presidential coin when they visit White House and warns them not to sell it on eBay. 6-2

State GOP Leader Arrested For Asking Alleged Crime Boss To Threaten Someone 6-2

Novak: Scandal-plagued Lewis will retire. 6-2

Senate and House Intelligence Committees are asking former attorney general John Ashcroft to testify about a March 2004 hospital-room confrontation during which he refused to sign off on a continuation of President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program 6-2

Uber religious homophobe nominated by President Bush to become the next U.S. surgeon general. 6-2

Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor 6-2

Rep. William Jefferson says Louisiana may have to donate $1 billion to bail out Katrina recovery program. That's a lot of freezers worth 6-2

Judge Will Release Letters in Libby Case 6-2

Palast Exclusive: The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom 6-2

Biden scolds clean and articulate Democrats for skipping Fox News debates 6-2

Nov. 30, 2006: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that his country's forces would be able to assume security command by June 2007 — which could allow the United States to start withdrawing its troops. 6-2

Neocons Tried to Reverse China Policy, Says Powell Aide 6-2

Guy who flew to and from Europe with extremely drug resistant TB? His father-in-law works in the TB lab at the CDC. 6-1

CDC’s Ability To Respond To Tuberculosis Scare Hampered By Bush’s Budget Cuts 6-1

A newly disclosed effort to keep Vice President Dick Cheney's visitor records secret is the latest White House push to make sure the public doesn't learn who has been meeting with top officials in the Bush administration 6-1

Sen John Kyl is the secret senator who blocked the open govt act. 6-1

GOP loses lots of donations due to immigration bill, responds by firing entire staff of phone donation solicitors 6-1

Senator Stevens' house remodel deal gets even shadier. All finances passed through company recently linked to widespread AK corruption 6-1

Security Breach: Detailed Plans Of US Baghdad Embassy Appear Online 6-1

Bush Admin Spreads False Rumor About Governor Who Criticized Guard Shortages 6-1

Man thumps chest yelling "I am the President", Claims Iraq is set up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.” Sadly, this man is actually the President of the United States 6-1

Bush's new environmental policy sets 'goals', but has no concrete targets or dates, no enforcement mechanism, no penalties for noncompliance and won't take effect until four years after Bush leaves office. Emissions Accomplished 6-1

CIA wants to re-classify Valerie Plame as covert to prevent her book from being published 6-1

Mitt Romney, who enacted a government-mandated health care plan while governor of Massachusetts, attacked Democrats for their "government-mandated" health care plans 6-1

This week's Friday resignation: Top Bush aide Dan Bartlett resigns 6-1

Governor Dean, famous for making Vermont the first state to recognize civil unions for gay couples, sued for sexual orientation discrimination 6-1

Foreign Lobbying Database Up and Running 6-1

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