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Bush Administration

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Scottfree

Here is an amazing segment of the NBC Nightly News in 1972, featuring a very young Dan Rather reporting on the Nixon Reelection campaign. And, as you may have guessed from the title, that fresh-faced, mutton-chopped young Republican is none other

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Washington Post

Thirteen months before President Bush was reelected, chief strategist Karl Rove summoned political appointees from around the government to the Old Executive Office Building. The subject of the Oct. 1, 2003, meeting was "asset deployment,"

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Iraq Slogger

An Iraqi official who heads the government committee tasked with inspecting detention facilities announced shocking figures this weekend, estimating the number of detainees held in US and Iraqi-run prisons at 67,000. The admission sparked the Iraqi g

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LA Times

It was classic bureaucratic bungling in a report criticizing the Pentagon's failure to keep proper records and track weapons flows. But there may have been another factor -- the government's dangerous and bumbling use of bad guys.

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AP

Karl Rove, President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration.

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STEVE FAINARU, Washington Post

Costs rose in line with the Corps of Engineers' security demands, including a request for additional armored vehicles that cost roughly $150,000 each and are manned by guards who earn $15,000 a month. -- The Army Corps of Engineers is made up pri

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Washington Post

President Bush said yesterday that he is considering a fresh plan to cut tax rates for US corporations to make them more competitive around the world, an initiative that could further inflame a battle with the Democratic Congress over spending and ta

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ABC News Blog

The Bush administration opposed a Democratic effort to restore full educational benefits for returning veterans, according to an official's comments last week. Senate Democrats, led by Virginia's Jim Webb, want the government to pay

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Slate

Happy six-month anniversary, US attorney scandal! (And what do you get for the scandal that has everything?) The half-birthday of the purge scandal's explosion onto the front pages last February brings a new round of attempts to explain

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Raw Story

The day after President George W. Bush marshaled political forces in Congress to grant him greater authority to engage in counterterrorism-related spying, the president stated that he would seek greater changes to the FISA when the legislative

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News Day

It's the stuff of nightmares: an attack on the nation's captial that would take out whole swaths of official Washington. In response to a presidential directive, White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend will deliver a plan thi

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Salon

The president won't fire Alberto Gonzales. He needs him to protect White House secrets, including the scheming roles of Cheney and Rove.

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Washington Post

Justice Dept officials attended at least a dozen political briefings at the White House since 2001, including some meetings led by Karl Rove, President's Bush's chief political adviser, and other that were focused on election trends prior to

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