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Bush administration stories: 531 news summaries

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 Chinese Influence 
 Grows in Latin America 

Deal by deal, Sino-South American relationships erode U.S. clout

Apr 16, 09 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stepping into a gap created by the 1-2 punch of Bush administration neglect and worldwide recession, China is pumping billions of dollars into Latin America, helping to shore up slowing economies while the US plays catch-up in the region, the New York Times reports. "This is how the balance... More »

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China • Bush administration • international trade • Latin America • Brazil • Beijing • Argentina • yuan • Ecuador • Inter-American Development Bank

No Torture Trial for 'Bush Six': Spain's Top Cop

Case would turn
courts into political
'plaything,' he says

Apr 16, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(AP) - Spanish prosecutors will recommend against opening an investigation into whether six Bush administration officials sanctioned torture against terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the country’s attorney general said today. The case against former high-ranking figures like Alberto Gonzales was without merit, he said, because the men weren’t present when... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Alberto Gonzales • human rights • Spain • trial • Guantanamo Bay • John Yoo • David Addington • Douglas Feith

Spain to Indict Gonzales, 'Bush Six' Over Gitmo Torture

Prosecutors seek charges in US officials' Gitmo role

Apr 14, 09 8:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spanish prosecutors will seek charges against Alberto Gonzales and five other Bush-administration officials over their role in torture at Guantanamo, the Daily Beast reports. The prosecutors plan to announce the probe into the so-called Bush Six today at Spain’s central criminal court. “The evidence provided was more than... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Alberto Gonzales • investigation • Spain • Guantanamo Bay • indictment

(Newser) - The George W. Bush administration is planning a reunion in honor of the former president’s nascent policy institute, the New York Times reports. Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes, speechwriter Michael Gerson, and White House counsel Dan Bartlett will meet the former president next week in Dallas for dinner and... More »

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Bush administration • democracy • Condoleezza Rice • Dan Bartlett • Karen Hughes • George W. Bush • AIDS epidemic • Michael Gerson • George W. Bush Policy Institute

On Environment, White House Quick to Undo Bush Policies

Staff unearths years
of shelved proposals

Mar 30, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than a dozen environmental initiatives that stagnated under former President Bush are moving forward under Obama, the Washington Post reports. In most of those cases, the decisions were based on reports drafted over several years that, in the face of opposition, were placed on the back burner to await... More »

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climate change • Bush administration • environment • Environmental Protection Agency • Obama administration • Lisa Jackson

(Newser) - A federal judge today ordered the Food and Drug Administration to immediately relax age restrictions on the morning-after contraception pill, and reconsider whether there should be any restrictions at all, the Washington Post reports. Since 2005, the pill has been available without a prescription only to women over 18; within... More »

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Bush administration • FDA • federal courts • prescription drugs • federal judges • teen pregnancy • morning after pill • restrictions

US Strikes in Pakistan Have Hammered al-Qaeda: Officials

9 militant leaders killed in six months

Mar 22, 09 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some six months of US missile strikes in Pakistan are rocking al-Qaeda, sparking violent infighting among militants, the Los Angeles Times reports. The frequency of attacks was upped last August by the Bush administration when it began launching strikes without Pakistan’s permission. Since then, there have been at least... More »

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Bush administration • Pakistan • militant • al-Qaeda • missile strike • George W. Bush • Obama administration • President Obama

US to Sign UN Gay Rights Declaration

Decision to back global decriminalization reverses Bush policy

Mar 18, 09 3:31 AM CDT
(AP) - The Obama administration will endorse a UN declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that President Bush refused to sign, reports AP. The US was the only western government that refused to back the declaration last year, triggering stinging criticism of the Bush administration. Some 70 UN nations still... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • gay rights • United Nations • homosexuality • homosexual rights • Obama administration

 CIA Tortured 
 Prisoners: 
 Red Cross 

2007 report is first to use 'torture' in legal context

Mar 16, 09 5:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Red Cross concluded in 2007 that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda detainees "constituted torture," the Washington Post reports. Fourteen prisoners transferred from multiple CIA "black site" prisons overseas to Guantanamo all described similar patterns of beatings, sleep deprivation, exposure to extreme heat and cold, and... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • torture • black sites

Bushies Work
to Salvage
Boss' Rep

Rove, Fleischer, Perino look to set the record straight, combat spin

Mar 11, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two months out of office, President Bush rarely warrants mention these days, but his old aides quietly work at rebuilding his reputation, reports Politico. “We’re invited to comment on the events of the day and along the way, we remind people that there was, indeed, good news under... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • White House • Bush legacy • Dana Perino • Ari Fleischer • George W. Bush

OPINION

Obama Puts Brakes on Contractors

Bush's 'market-based' government hasn't been cheaper or better

Mar 11, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama slipped an important policy change under the radar last week, saying government needs to make “a real choice between investments that are designed to keep the American people safe, and those that are designed to make a defense contractor rich.” Thomas Frank was listening, and he... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • outsourcing • government contracts • Obama administration • budget reform • defense contractors

Obama Defends Bush 'Torture Memo' Author

Yoo case should be up to executive, Congress, Justice Dept argues

Mar 8, 09 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s Justice Department is defending a Bush official being sued over his interrogation memos, ABC News reports. Lawyers for Jose Padilla, who was sentenced to 17 years in jail for conspiring to support Islamist extremists, are arguing in court that John Yoo’s memos were behind Padilla’s... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Jose Padilla • lawsuit • John Yoo • George W. Bush • Obama administration • torture memo

(Newser) - President Obama will overturn the Bush administration’s ban on federal funding for stem-cell research Monday, Time reports. The move fulfills a campaign promise and Obama’s pledge to bring science back to the fore in America, and will precede legislation expected later this year preventing future presidents from banning... More »

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Bush administration • stem cell research • Congress • legislation • ban • George W. Bush • Obama administration • President Obama

Obama Rethinks Bush's Species Protection Rule

Businesses may need to check with feds
again before building

Mar 3, 09 1:31 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar are expected to announce today a review of a controversial, last-minute Bush administration rule on the environment, the Wall Street Journal reports. In December Bush’s Interior Department exempted developers and businesses from usual checks with the Fish and Wildlife Service to see... More »

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Bush administration • endangered species • Barack Obama • Ken Salazar • George W. Bush • Fish and Wildlife Service • Obama administration • President Obama • midnight regulation

 Bush Lawyer Authorized 
 Suspending 1st Amendment 

Yoo memo also let military attack buildings inside US

Mar 3, 09 4:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Immediately after 9/11 the Justice Department under President Bush approved military attacks on apartments and offices, high-tech surveillance of citizens, and a suspension of press freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. The actions detailed in the newly released memo, co-written by John Yoo and sent to Alberto Gonzales, were seen... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • John Yoo • 9/11 attacks • torture memo • memo

 Senate to Probe Bush-Era CIA 

Inquiry to focus on controversial interrogation and detention program

Feb 27, 09 4:22 AM CST
(Newser) - The Senate Intelligence Committee plans a sweeping investigation into the CIA's actions under President Bush, the Los Angeles Times reports. Officials say the probe is a fact-finding mission rather than an investigation into whether laws were broken, but the inquiry is certain to put the spotlight back on the agency's... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • CIA • secret prisons • Senate Intelligence Committee • counterterrorism • interrogation • waterboarding • harsh interrogation • Leon Panetta

(Newser) - George Bush is officially ready for his new job: speech-maker. Now signed up with the Washington Speakers Bureau, Bush plans to make at least 10 speeches around the world in the next year. The first—"A Conversation With George Bush"—will be March 17 in Calgary to business... More »

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Bush administration • presidency • White House • Calgary • speaking engagements • George W. Bush • lecture circuit

(Newser) - At a White House “fiscal responsibility summit” today, President Obama opened fire on what he called the Bush administration’s “casual dishonesty” about the federal budget, Politico reports. “Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years,” Obama said, “we cannot simply spend... More »

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Bush administration • accounting • economic stimulus package • federal budget • Iraq war spending • George W. Bush • Obama administration • disaster relief • President Obama • dishonesty

Education Law in Dire
Need of New Name

Ridicule of No Child Left Behind prompts search

Feb 23, 09 7:58 AM CST
(Newser) - No Child Left Behind has become “the most negative brand in America,” says a congressman, and new Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s time for a new name for the law. Educators and jokesters alike are trying their hand at rebranding, the New York Times reports. Proposals... More »

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Bush administration • education • parody • joke • No Child Left Behind • George W. Bush • rebranding • Obama administration

 Condi Nabs 
 3-Book Deal 

Former secretary of state will earn at least $2.5M

Feb 23, 09 7:51 AM CST
(AP) - Condoleezza Rice has agreed to a three-book deal officials say is worth at least $2.5 million, starting with a memoir about her years in the administration of President Bush. The former secretary of State “will combine candid narrative and acute analysis to tell the story of her time... More »

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Bush administration • Condoleezza Rice • secretary of State • memoir • book deal

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