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Bush administration stories: 531 news summaries

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Gates Pushed
to Close Guantanamo

New defense secretary butted heads with Cheney, Gonzales

Mar 23, 07 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newly appointed Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushed hard for shutting down the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but  was blocked by Cheney and Gonzales, until Bush pulled the plug on the argument.  Gates at least succeeded in halting a $100 million expansion of the prison he felt had... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Alberto Gonzales • politics • prison • Robert Gates • Guantanamo Bay • abuse • defense secretary • George W. Bush

(Newser) - The same legal argument marshaled to justify mistreating prisoners is behind the Bush administration’s contention that the President can fire U.S. attorneys for any reason or no reason, according to Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick. It’s the theory that a greater power—like killing people in war—embodies... More »

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Bush administration • justice system • US attorney • politics • courts • power • George W. Bush

House Vote: Make Rove Testify

Senate expected to approve subpoenas today in prosecutor firing flap

Mar 22, 07 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - A House panel authorized subpoenas yesterday and the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to do so today in an effort to force Karl Rove and other top administration figures to testify about the firings of federal prosecutors. With the White House offering only private interviews, not under oath, the scene... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Karl Rove • Tony Snow • Senate Judiciary Committee • White House • House of Representatives • Clinton administration • George W. Bush

Dems Score
With Subpoenas

They can't pass bills, but they can sure
hold hearings

Mar 20, 07 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats haven't managed to score with a single one of the bills drafted in their giddy first 100 hours, but playing hardball with hearings has proved more fruitful. In cranking up the congressional oversight machinery, write Richard Simon and Noam Levey, they've dominated headlines and applied pressure to the administration. More »

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Bush administration • ethics • Congress • Valerie Plame • investigation • Democrats • Congressional oversight • Democratic Congress • Congressional hearings • subpoena • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • George W. Bush

(Newser) - Emails the White House handed over to investigators today outline a systematic plan to fire U.S. attorneys who were too independent. D. Kyle Sampson, chief of staff to Alberto Gonzales, shot off a memo just after Bush's second inauguration suggesting Justice retain only attorneys who had "exhibited loyalty... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • Kyle Sampson • Congressional investigations

Guestworker Abuses Cited

Mar 12, 07 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - American employers are systematically exploiting the 120,000 low-skilled guest workers they hire each year, from stealing passports and Social Security cards to consistently underpaying them. “I felt like an animal without claws—defenseless. It is the same as slavery,” says one worker, in a report published today... More »

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Bush administration • immigration • illegal immigrant • immigration reform • labor • employment • guest worker

Bickering Among Agencies Undermines  Iraq Rebuilding

State fights Commerce over how to win peace

Mar 11, 07 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Squabbles among agencies in the Bush administration have wasted countless hours and undermined initiatives to stabilize Iraq, the Post reports. The White House wants the whole cabinet involved, but State shuns other departments' initiatives. One battle between State and Commerce, over a proposal to end food rations, became so bitter... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Condoleezza Rice • State Department • Department of Commerce

Vermonters Vote to Impeach President

Over 35 towns pass resolutions charging Bush with lawbreaking

Mar 8, 07 5:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Vermont, the state with civil unions, Ben and Jerry's, and a socialist senator, has taken the "think globally, act locally" motto to heart with a call for President Bush's impeachment—town by town. In a series of local meetings initiated by activists, residents introduced a resolution charging the administration... More »

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Bush administration • Vermont • Bush impeachment • impeachment • Liberal • George W. Bush

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

Prisoner Sheds Harsh Light on "Black Sites"

Testimony undercuts Bush claims about CIA secret facilities for terror suspects

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Details about "black sites"--the network of secret internment facilities for terror suspects the CIA ran until last summer—are emerging as former prisoners tell their stories. The Washington Post interviews Marwan Jabour, an accused al-Qaeda paymaster who spent 28 months in two facilities—where he was drugged, burned,... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • rendition • torture • human rights • terrorist • black sites • internment • Marwan Jabour • Geneva Convention

CIA Finds No Escape From Secret Prisons

New report places 'black sites' first exposed in 2005 in Poland, Romania

Jan 1, 07 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The secret CIA prisons are back. The US cashed in on military alliances with an eager Poland and Romania to skirt civilian regulations on torture and tk, says a report by Europe's central human rights council released today. The report sheds new light on the so-called 'black sites,' which... More »

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Bush administration • NATO • CIA • human rights • secret prisons

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