Bush Administration

Report Details Loss of Millions of Bush Administration E-Mails

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:49:39 -0400

Full article: Washington Post
Ed O'Keefe
Top aides to President George W. Bush seemed unconcerned despite multiple warnings as early as 2002 that the White House risked losing millions of e-mails that federal law required them to preserve, according to an extensive review of records.

Documents About Lost E-Mail Can Stay Secret

Stevie Converse — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:38:08 -0400

Full article: Washington Post
Del Quentin Wilber
A federal appeals court ruled that the White House does not have to make public internal documents examining the potential disappearance of e-mails during the administration of President George W. Bush. The appeals court found that the White House's Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

Pentagon Rejects Its Own Pundit Program Whitewash

Stevie Converse — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:41:21 -0400

Full article: Center for Media and Democracy
Diane Farsetta
Accountability for the Pentagon pundit program was never likely to come from the Defense Department itself. Now it's up to Congress to demand -- and the Government Accountability Office and the FCC to carry out -- real investigations into the elaborate propaganda campaign to shape public opinion before and during the occupation of Iraq.

It Can Happen Here

Stevie Converse — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:25:54 -0400

Full article: The Nation
Eric Alterman
Previously secret memos from the Bush era demonstrate the extent to which violations of our civil liberties went unreported. The memos have been addressed in some unsigned newspaper editorials and the liberal blogosphere. But the mainstream media is largely silent: Admitting that the dangers were present says that democracy's watchdog was sleeping (or cowering) on the job.

DOJ Releases, Adjures Bush Administration Surveillance Memos

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:13:38 -0500

Full article: Ars Technica
Julian Sanchez
The Department of Justice has finally released closely guarded legal memoranda in which John Yoo laid the groundwork for warrantless NSA wiretapping and other key elements of the War on Terror. They're probably even worse than you thought.

Post-9/11 Memos Show More Bush-Era Legal Errors

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:07:55 -0500

Full article: Washington Post
R. Jeffrey Smith and Dan Eggen
The number of major legal errors committed by Bush administration lawyers during the formulation of its early counterterrorism policies was far greater than previously known, according to internal Bush administration documents released for the first time by the Justice Department yesterday.

Obama Unseals Bush-Era Wiretap Memos

Stevie Converse — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:50:47 -0500

Full article: CNet
Declan McCullagh
Documents disclosed by the Obama administration show that after Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration secretly concluded that it had the authority to wiretap the Internet and telephone calls with virtually no limitations, restrict free speech, and use the U.S. military domestically against suspected terrorists.

Obama Administration Backs Telecom Immunity

Stevie Converse — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:41:23 -0500

Full article: San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Egelko
The Obama administration has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to uphold a law aimed at dismissing suits against telecommunications companies that cooperated with President George W. Bush's wiretapping program.

It's All on the Line

Stevie Converse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:40:18 -0500

Full article: On the Media
Former National Security Agency analyst turned whistleblower Russell Tice said definitively that the NSA monitored domestic communications of American journalists. Reporter Lawrence Wright, who has long believed he was a target, says he's not surprised by the allegation. (Audio 8:15)

AP CEO Urges Better Press Access to Military Operations

Stevie Converse — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:38:45 -0500

Full article: Associated Press
John Hanna
The Bush administration turned the U.S. military into a global propaganda machine while imposing tough restrictions on journalists seeking to give the public truthful reports about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Associated Press chief executive Tom Curley said in a recent speech.