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Bush administration stories: 531 news summaries

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 Dowd: GOP 
 Has Short 
 Memory 

'Quaint' calls for balance follow reign of 'Boy Emperor'

May 3, 09 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - As their party contracts with the defection of Arlen Specter, the GOP is complaining about a disappearing balance of power: “How quaint,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times—this from the party whose “arrogant” previous administration “did its best to undermine checks and balances.... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Condoleezza Rice • Arlen Specter • Constitution • Maureen Dowd • professor • waterboarding • George W. Bush • President Obama • balance of power

Fleischer: 
Subpoena Me
—I Dare You

Ex-Bush spokesman
would 'be proud to testify' about torture

May 1, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer doesn’t think there should be an investigation of his boss’s torture program. But “I’ll be proud to testify if I get a subpoena,” he said during a panel discussion yesterday. “I’m proud of what we did to protect... More »

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Bush administration • torture • investigation • Guantanamo Bay • subpoena • black sites • Ari Fleischer • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • Gideon Yago

 For Bush Veterans, 
 DC Jobs Are Scarce 

Former administration officials find bad economy, overwhelmed job market

Apr 30, 09 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Bush administration staffers are feeling the economic pinch as acutely as other victims of the sagging economy, Politico reports. GOP job-seekers in Washington face a triple whammy of economic chaos, minority status on Capitol Hill, and an excess of qualified Republicans. “The Washington side is a bit of... More »

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Bush administration • Washington DC • Capitol Hill • bureaucracy • unemployment • job market • congressional aides • Republicans • jobless

Spanish Judge to Investigate Torture at Gitmo

Declassified memos show there were abuses, Garzon says

Apr 29, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Spanish judge has launched a probe into allegations of torture at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, AFP reports. Baltasar Garzon initiated the investigation after reading statements by Spanish citizen Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed and three other prisoners about their treatment there. Garzon also said that the memos recently declassified... More »

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Bush administration • torture • terrorism • Spain • Guantanamo Bay • Augusto Pinochet • Auguste Pinochet • legal action • Baltasar Garzon

Court Approves Ex-Inmates' Suit Against CIA

Torture allegations trump state secrets argument, panel rules

Apr 29, 09 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five men who allege they were kidnapped and tortured on the orders of CIA agents may bring suit in federal court, an appeals panel ruled yesterday. Presidents Bush and Obama both contended that the case should be dismissed to protect classified evidence. But a federal appeals court panel ruled presidential... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • rendition • torture • Guantanamo Bay • George W. Bush • Eric Holder • US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals • Obama administration • President Obama • Binyam Mohamed

After 100 Days, Does Obama Beat Bush?

A look at approval ratings, community-by-community

Apr 27, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - After 100 days, President Obama is more divisive, more popular with moderates, and bigger with his base than George W. Bush was at this point—depending on where you look, the Christian Science Monitor finds in a look at 11 community types. Overall, Obama’s 63% Pew approval rating beats... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • approval ratings • George W. Bush • Obama administration • community • President Obama • 100 days

(Newser) - The outrage on Capitol Hill against Bush-era interrogation policies is nothing more than a disingenuous “circus,” former CIA chief Porter Goss writes in the Washington Post. Goss, also a former congressman, says he and other senior lawmakers were briefed more than once about CIA tactics. “I... More »

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Bush administration • national security • CIA • interrogation techniques • Porter Goss • torture memo • CIA director

Bybee Rues Signature on Torture Memos

Friends say he
regrets way the legal opinions were used

Apr 25, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jay Bybee has told friends and colleagues that he regrets his role as one of the authors of the so-called torture memos, the Washington Post reports. Most notably, Bybee, who's now a federal judge, signed off on the 2002 memo that authorized waterboarding. "I've heard him express regret at... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • interrogation techniques • federal judges • US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals • torture memo • Jay Bybee • Office of Legal Counsel

(Newser) - On foreign policy, it’s “so far, so good” for President Obama’s first 100 days, writes Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. (Domestically, “there are only so many ways to say ‘Oy.’”) But the torture debate appeared to catch the White... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • CIA • torture • harsh interrogation • Peggy Noonan • Obama administration

 Photos of Bush-Era 
 Prisoner Abuse 
 to Be Released 

ACLU request for release of Iraq, Afghanistan photos granted

Apr 24, 09 2:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is releasing dozens of photographs depicting prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq being abused by Americans, the Los Angeles Times reports. The photos are not believed to be as extreme as the images from the Abu Ghraib probe, but defense officials warn they may provoke an angry backlash... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Bush administration • War on Terror • Abu Ghraib • ACLU • detainee • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - President Obama says the harsh interrogation methods used by the CIA both compromised American values and provided unreliable information. “Those are a convenient pair of opinions,” notes Scott Shane of the New York Times. But it's not going to be that easy for the new administration to... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • Dick Cheney • CIA • torture • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation

 Condi Was 
 First to OK 
 Waterboarding 

Condi gave go-ahead before Rumsfeld, Powell even knew about it: Senate

Apr 23, 09 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice played a greater role than she has acknowledged in the CIA's harsh interrogation program, and approved the use of waterboarding, according to a newly released report from the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report finds that Rice, as national security adviser, verbally approved the CIA's request to waterboard a... More »

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Bush administration • Condoleezza Rice • Senate Intelligence Committee • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation • torture memo

(Newser) - More details are emerging from the Obama camp's debate on how to handle the Bush interrogation memos. In the Washington Post, Dan Balz writes that President Obama rejected the idea of setting up an investigation panel along the lines of the 9/11 Commission. Obama wanted to move on rather than... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • interrogation • Guantanamo prisoners • harsh interrogation • President Obama

(AP) - The Food and Drug Administration will allow 17-year-olds to get the "morning-after" birth control pill without a doctor's prescription. The agency said today it would not appeal a federal judge's recent order overturning restrictions imposed during the Bush administration. The judge had ruled that Bush appointees let politics, not... More »

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Bush administration • abortion • FDA • birth control • Plan B • teen pregnancy • morning after pill • abortion pill

US Readied Waterboarding as Early as 2001

Harsh tactics were readied even before suspects captured

Apr 22, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration prepared to use waterboarding and other harsh tactics widely considered to be torture 8 months before the Justice Department approved them, and even before capturing a high-level terrorist suspect, the Washington Post reports. A Senate investigation reveals these brutal interrogation methods were approved despite warnings that they... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • secret prisons • Carl Levin • waterboarding • harsh interrogation • Senate Armed Services Committee

(Newser) - President Obama today said he’d be open to the idea of creating a panel to investigate the Bush administration’s interrogation methods in the war on terror. Obama and his aides have been dismissing the idea for weeks, but today in a press conference with King Abdullah of Jordan,... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • CIA • torture • Patrick Leahy • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Obama administration

Condi Commands Same Speaking Fee as Ex-Boss

$150,000 price tag shows Bush may not be  biggest star of his own administration

Apr 17, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice isn't playing second fiddle to George W. Bush any longer: The former secretary of state charges a $150,000 speaking fee—the same as her old boss, The Hill reports. Rice will even get a jump on the former president later this month when she addresses the Economic... More »

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Bush administration • Condoleezza Rice • Laura Bush • David Plouffe • Tucker Carlson • speaking engagements • Paul Begala • George W. Bush • speaking fee • Washington Speakers Bureau

'Weighty' Torture Memo Decision Took Weeks

President's belief in rule of law won out in choice to release Bush-era memos

Apr 17, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama spent weeks thinking "very long and hard" about his "weighty decision" to release memos on harsh CIA interrogation techniques green-lighted by the Bush administration, senior adviser David Axelrod tells Politico. In the end, Axelrod says, the president's belief in transparency and the rule of law won... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • David Axelrod • torture memo • President Obama

 Obama Releases Bush 
 Memos Detailing Torture 

Justice docs released detail OK'd techniques

Apr 16, 09 3:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Bush-era memo on interrogation techniques acknowledged that waterboarding represented a “threat of imminent death,” but that the simulated-drowning procedure was not torture because it caused no lasting psychological harm, Reuters reports. The Justice Department memo and three others on interrogations were released to the public today—and... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • torture • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • torture memo • public disclosure

(AP) - Seeking to move beyond what he calls a "a dark and painful chapter in our history," President Barack Obama said today that CIA officials who used harsh interrogation tactics during the Bush administration will not be prosecuted. Obama officials also released four secret memos detailing tactics against 28... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • Department of Justice • Attorney General • waterboarding • Eric Holder • Obama administration

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