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scandal stories: 185 news summaries

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Congress Probes Private White House E-Mails

May have breached post-Watergate law

Apr 10, 07 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Use of private e-mail accounts by White House officials is being probed by Democratic lawmakers who charge that they were employed to avoid scrutiny. Accounts set up by the Republican National Committee are intended to keep political activities separate from official business, but they were used in planning the firings... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • politics • RNC • Watergate • Henry Waxman • BlackBerry • scandal

Email Fingers Rove in Attorney Scandal

He knew about the firings in 2005

Mar 16, 07 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - An email released Thursday implicates Karl Rove in the U.S. attorney firings scandal, suggesting he knew of the plotted purges much earlier than previously acknowledged. In a message dated January 6, 2005, a White House lawyer reported that Rove had asked to discuss the firings with D. Kyle Sampon,... More »

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Department of Justice • US attorney • Karl Rove • Kyle Sampson • US attorneys scandal • Senate Judiciary Committee • subpoena • scandal • George W. Bush

British Torture
Trial Backfires

Acquittal in case that mirrors
Abu Ghraib sparks public outrage

Mar 14, 07 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The prosecution of a group of British soldiers for mistreating Iraqi detainees—one of whom died under questioning—has backfired on the British government. Four soldiers have been acquitted of various crimes after a three-year investigation. Now the knives are out for leading members of the British government over the... More »

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Iraq • torture • Abu Ghraib • United Kingdom • British law • British troops • detainee • Britain • scandal

Gingrich: 'I Cheat, but Don't Lie'

Republican denies hypocrisy, mulls presidential run

Mar 9, 07 10:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Newt Gingrich, the former "family values" congressman from Georgia, was cheating on his wife even while hounding Bill Clinton for doing the same. In an interview that airs tonight, Gingrich confessed the 1998 affair to Focus on the Family's James Dobson. But he's no hypocrite, he reasons, because he... More »

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Newt Gingrich • divorce • sex scandal • family • Election 2008 • scandal

Walter Reed Exposes Weakened
Top Brass 

Retired general blames military for acquiescing to misguided civilian moves

Mar 6, 07 1:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Blame the Walter Reed scandal on "the silence of our top officers," writes a retired Army general. Paul Eaton, who spent a year in Baghdad rebuilding the Iraqi army, says the administration and Congress "pointedly failed to provide the money and resources for our returned troops,"... More »

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Bush administration • health care • veterans • Walter Reed fallout • Joint Chiefs of Staff • US Army • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • scandal

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