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Impeach George Bush
Bush is CIA Leaker
Source: National Journal Group, Inc., 2006-07-03
Candidate: President George Bush
President Bush told the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that he directed Vice President Dick Cheney to personally lead an effort to counter allegations made by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV that his administration had misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq, according to people familiar with the president's statement.
Bush told prosecutors he directed Cheney to disclose classified information that would not only defend his administration but also discredit Wilson.
Bush also told federal prosecutors during his June 24, 2004, interview in the Oval Office that he had directed Cheney, as part of that broader effort, to disclose highly classified intelligence information that would not only defend his administration but also discredit Wilson, the sources said.
But Bush told investigators that he was unaware that Cheney had directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, to covertly leak the classified information to the media instead of releasing it to the public after undergoing the formal governmental declassification processes.
Bush also said during his interview with prosecutors that he had never directed anyone to disclose the identity of then-covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife. Bush said he had no information that Cheney had disclosed Plame's identity or directed anyone else to do so.
Libby has said that neither the president nor the vice president directed him or other administration officials to disclose Plame's CIA employment to the press. Cheney has also denied having any role in the disclosure.
On October 28, 2005, a federal grand jury indicted Libby on five felony counts of making false statements, perjury, and obstruction of justice, for allegedly concealing his own role, and perhaps that of others, in outing Plame as a covert CIA officer.
One senior government official familiar with the discussions between Bush and Cheney -- but who does not have firsthand knowledge of Bush's interview with prosecutors -- said that Bush told the vice president to "Get it out," or "Let's get this out," regarding information that administration officials believed would rebut Wilson's allegations and would discredit him.
A person with direct knowledge of Bush's interview refused to confirm that Bush used those words, but said that the first official's account was generally consistent with what Bush had told Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Libby, in language strikingly similar to Bush's words, testified to the federal grand jury in the leak case that Cheney had told him to "get all the facts out" that would defend the administration and discredit Wilson. Portions of Libby's grand jury testimony were an exhibit in a recent court filing by Fitzgerald.
Dana Perino, a spokesperson for the White House, declined to comment. James E. Sharpe, an attorney for President Bush, did not return a phone message left at his home on Saturday. The special prosecutor's office also declined to comment.
The disclosure of classified information as part of an effort to discredit Wilson, and the unmasking of Plame as a CIA "operative" by columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003, occurred after Wilson began asserting that the Bush administration had relied on faulty intelligence to bolster its case to go to war with Iraq.
Wilson had led a CIA-sponsored mission to Niger in March 2002 to investigate claims that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was attempting to buy enriched uranium from the African nation to build a nuclear weapon. Wilson reported back to the CIA that the allegations were almost certainly not true. Still, President Bush cited the Niger allegations during his 2003 State of the Union address as evidence that Saddam had an aggressive program to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Wilson has said he sought out White House officials, believing they did not know all the facts, and was rebuffed, he began speaking to reporters about his Niger mission, although he initially asked journalists not to reveal his identity.
On June 12, 2003, the same day that news accounts appeared citing Wilson's allegations against the administration-albeit without him being named-Libby first learned from Cheney that Plame worked at the CIA and might have played a role in sending her husband to Niger. Libby's indictment stated: "On or about June 12, 2003, Libby was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division. Libby understood that the Vice President learned this information from the CIA."
On July 6, 2003, Wilson himself went public in an op-ed piece in The New York Times and on NBC's "Meet the Press" with his claims that the Bush administration had misrepresented the Niger information to make the case for war.
Among those who took notice was Cheney.
Cheney cut Wilson's op-ed out of the newspaper and wrote in the margins: "Have they done this sort of thing before? Send an Amb[assador] to answer a question. Do we ordinarily send people out pro bono to work for us? Or did his wife send him on a junket?"
In grand jury testimony, Libby testified that Cheney would "often... cut out from a newspaper an article using a little penknife he had" and "look at, think about it." Whether Libby saw Cheney's annotation of Wilson's column is not clear. Libby testified: "It's possible if it was sitting on his desk that, you know, my eye went across it."
That aside, court papers filed by Fitzgerald's office have asserted: "At some point after the publication of the July 6 Op Ed by Mr. Wilson, Vice President Cheney, [Libby's] immediate supervisor, expressed concerns to [Libby] regarding whether Mr. Wilson's trip was legitimate or whether it was in effect a junket set up by Mr. Wilson's wife."
Two days after Wilson's column appeared, on July 8, 2003, Libby met with then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Libby questioned Wilson's mission to Niger by telling Miller that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, according to Miller's federal grand jury testimony, and the indictment of Libby. Libby has claimed that he and Miller never discussed Plame that day -- a claim that prosecutors assert is a lie.
Four days later, on July 12, 2003, Libby told Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper that Plame worked for the CIA and that she might have had a role in her husband's selection for the Niger mission. Libby also spoke to Miller again that day and discussed Plame's work at the CIA, according to Miller's grand jury testimony and the Libby indictment.
Central to the criminal charges against Libby is Libby's grand jury testimony and his statements to the FBI that when he talked to Cooper and Miller about Plame, he was only repeating rumors that he had heard from other journalists. Libby has testified that one or two days before talking to Miller and Cooper about Plame, NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert told Libby that Plame worked for the CIA, and that other reporters had heard the same information.
According to Libby's indictment, Libby told the FBI that after Russert told him about Plame, Libby responded "that he did not know that, and Russert replied that all the reporters knew it. Libby was surprised by this statement because, while speaking with Russert, Libby did not recall that he previously had learned about Wilson's wife's employment from the Vice President."
Contradicting Libby, Russert testified to the grand jury that he never spoke about Plame to Libby. Prosecutors alleged that Libby lied about Russert, and the Libby indictment states that he learned about Plame from Cheney and also from State Department and CIA officials with either direct or indirect access to classified information.
A central focus of Fitzgerald's investigation has been why Libby would devise a cover story on how he learned of Plame's CIA work when prosecutors had obtained Libby's own notes showing that Libby had first gotten the information from Cheney. Libby told the FBI and testified to the grand jury that he had forgotten what Cheney had told him by the time that he made the Plame disclosure to reporters.
"I no longer remembered it," Libby testified to the grand jury regarding his June 12 conversation with Cheney. It was only after speaking to Russert, Libby testified, that he "learned" the information about Plame's CIA employment "anew."
Federal investigators have concluded that Libby's account is implausible. They have also questioned Libby's testimony that he does not believe he discussed the matter again with Cheney until at least July 14, 2003, the date of Novak's column that called Plame an "agency operative."
Federal investigators have a substantial amount of evidence that Cheney and Libby spoke about the matter in detail shortly after Wilson's column appeared on July 6. Cheney's handwritten notes in the margin of the Wilson column are one reason that prosecutors have believed that the two men spoke earlier than Libby has said they did.
Why -- if the criminal charges against Libby are correct -- would Libby lie to the FBI and the grand jury that he was only circulating rumors he had heard from reporters?
One obvious reason, prosecutors have believed, is that Libby did not want to admit that he was disseminating material gleaned from classified information. Even if Libby believed that he was unlikely to be charged with disclosing classified information, the investigators think that Libby could have feared the loss of his security clearance or his job. Or, perhaps most important of all, he worried about embarrassing Cheney and Bush.
Sources say investigators believe it is possible that Libby was trying to obscure Cheney's role in the Plame leak -- either by the vice president directing Libby to leak her CIA status, or through a general instruction from Cheney encouraging Libby to get the word out about Plame's role in sending Wilson to Niger. They say it is also possible that Libby lied to conceal the fact that he leaked Plame's identity to the press without Cheney's approval.
Another important reason that Cheney and Libby may have spoken about Plame shortly after July 6, rather than July 12, is that Libby testified that he and Cheney talked on a regular basis after July 6 about how to counteract Wilson's allegations. During grand jury testimony, a prosecutor asked Libby whether this was "a topic that was discussed on a daily basis?" Libby replied: "Yes, sir." When the prosecutor followed up by saying, "And it was discussed on multiple occasions each day, in fact?" Libby again responded: "Yes, sir."
Asked why the matter was so important to Cheney, Libby replied: "He wanted to get all the facts out about what he had or hadn't done-what the facts were or were not. He was very keen on that and said it repeatedly: Let's get everything out."
Libby further testified that Cheney was not referring to going public with information about Plame, but rather making available other classified information that both men believed would rebut Wilson's charges and discredit him.
Cheney encouraged Libby to disclose portions of a then-still highly classified National Intelligence Estimate regarding Saddam's weapons-of-mass-destruction program, according to court records filed by Fitzgerald. One section of the report mentioned the Niger allegations as credible, and Cheney, Libby, and other senior administration officials wanted to demonstrate that the CIA's incorrect assessments were a reason why the administration was making its own claims about the Niger matter.
As National Journal first reported in April, Cheney directed Libby to leak portions of a highly classified March 2002 intelligence report on the CIA's Directorate of Operations debriefing of Wilson after he returned from Niger. Although the debriefing did not mention Plame, Cheney and Libby believed that portions of it would contradict Wilson's accounts.
During the same time that Cheney and Libby's effort to leak classified information to discredit Wilson was under way, other White House officials were working through a formal interagency declassification process to make public portions of one or both of the same documents. It is unclear why Cheney and Libby were apparently acting without the knowledge of other senior government officials who were working with Cheney and Libby to formally declassify much of the very same information.
Leading the effort to formally declassify some of the same information, according to legal and government sources, were presidential counselor Dan Bartlett, then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, and then-CIA Director George Tenet.
A senior government official who has spoken to the president about the matter said that although Bush encouraged Cheney to get information out to rebut Wilson's charges, Bush was unaware that Cheney had directed Libby to leak classified information. The White House has pointed out that the president and vice president have broad executive powers to declassify whatever information they believe to be in the public interest. Meanwhile, court papers filed by Fitzgerald in April suggest that Libby was reluctant to leak any classified information to the press, and only did so after being assured that his actions were approved by both the president and vice president.
Regarding a meeting with Judith Miller that was scheduled for July 8, 2003, in which Cheney wanted Libby to leak her portions of the National Intelligence Estimate, Fitzgerald asserted in the court papers that Libby "testified that he was specifically authorized in advance of the meeting to disclose... [portions] of the classified NIE to Miller on that occasion."
"[Libby] further testified that he at first advised the Vice President that he could not have this conversation with reporter Miller because of the classified nature of the NIE. [Libby] testified that the Vice President later advised him that the President had authorized [Libby] to disclose the relevant portions of the NIE."
And Libby "testified that he spoke to David Addington, then Counsel to the Vice President, whom [Libby] considered to be an expert in national security law, and Mr. Addington opined that presidential Authorization to publicly disclose a document amounted to a declassification of a document."
A senior government official familiar with the matter said that in directing Libby to leak the classified information to Miller and other reporters, Cheney said words to the effect of, "The president wants this out," or "The president wants this done."
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From: bubbles_pop
2007-03-10 00:00:00
wow
From: bubbles_pop
2007-03-10 00:00:00
absolutley incredible.....:(
what have we
brought upon ourselves....what has he brought upon
us is the better question.
From: Robbie
2006-07-08 00:00:00
i'm not clear on this. if the president
de-cl-ssifies information, that makes it
non-cl-ssified. but if he just blurts it out, is
that considered a decl-ssification or does he have
to go through a formal process?
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| Bush Planned Iraq Invasion Before 9/11 | 1-8-2004
| So Bush Had To Reform Medicare, Huh? | 1-7-2004
| FOUND! WMDs! | 1-7-2004
| The Old Bait and Switch, Again | 1-4-2004
| That was Then, This is Now? | 1-3-2004
| God's Blessing Him | 1-1-2004
| Bush Lies About Sex | 12-30-2003
| Lest We Forget | 12-29-2003
| And the Administration Goes on Lying | 12-19-2003
| 9/11 Kean Preliminaries - Administration Delay Hinders Progress | 12-18-2003
| Jose Padilla Held Hostage - Officially | 12-16-2003
| Thanksgiving Leaves a Bad Taste in the Mouths of the Troops | 12-16-2003
| The Bush Administration Repudiates International Law | 12-13-2003
| I'll Take Carni Games for $200, Alex | 12-13-2003
| We've Got 'im | 12-11-2003
| Stop The Count | 12-11-2003
| Rumsfeld using Israeli Advisors in New Offensive | 12-9-2003
| Brainiac Strikes Again | 12-7-2003
| White House Wants Kerry to Apologize for Profanity | 12-7-2003
| Bush Sells Iraq | 12-4-2003
| 9/11 In Neverland | 12-4-2003
| Excuses, Excuses, Excuses | 12-3-2003
| Good-bye, Mr. President: The Secret Resignation Letters | 11-27-2003
| Better Watch Out | 11-26-2003
| Bush Family Business II | 11-24-2003
| Bush Brings Midland to Buckingham | 11-20-2003
| Is Bush Beyond the Law? | 11-20-2003
| Mr Blair: "We stay until the job gets done." | 11-17-2003
| A Safer and More Peaceful World | 11-16-2003
| CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words Part II | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words Part III | 11-16-2003
| Unable to Establish an Iraq/Al Qaeda Connection, Bush Builds One | 11-15-2003
| A Parable | 11-14-2003
| Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave... | 11-8-2003
| Bombs Over Baghdad - Again | 11-8-2003
| U.S. Closes Diplomatic Missions in Saudi Arabia | 11-6-2003
| Americans RIPPED OFF Again | 11-5-2003
| One in Seven - Flailing Support | 11-1-2003
| Bush's Other Wars | 11-1-2003
| There's Only One Issue in this next election - Abortion | 11-1-2003
| Piling On | 10-30-2003
| The Lying Spreads to Condoleezza Rice | 10-28-2003
| Two Words: Emperor's Clothes | 10-27-2003
| The 9/11 StoneWall | 10-27-2003
| 140,000 Voters in Iraq Will Vote to Rid Us Of Our Madman | 10-20-2003
| Charity Begins at Home | 10-17-2003
| Bush Looting Our Future | 10-16-2003
| Did Someone Say "Crusade" | 10-16-2003
| White House Officials Leak Bush's Order to Stop Leaks | 10-11-2003
| KISS | 10-11-2003
| Bush Administration Set to Gut Endangered Species Act! | 10-5-2003
| BUSH LEAVE HIS FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAND | 10-3-2003
| Bush - I lied - Again - So What? | 10-2-2003
| David Kay - Sorry about the Progress Leaks, I was Wrong | 10-1-2003
| Different Lies - Same Story | 9-29-2003
| Why All The Fuss | 9-27-2003
| What If? | 9-26-2003
| The Marshall Plan? | 9-24-2003
| Wouldn't Recognize the Truth if it Bit Him On His Ass | 9-22-2003
| Bush Takes His Case to FOX | 9-21-2003
| Ivins Hits Another Homer | 9-20-2003
| CNN Poll | 9-17-2003
| This Is Not A War, We Were Never Here | 9-14-2003
| Roadmap Dead - Isreal Puts out the Hit Palestinian Leadership | 9-12-2003
| The Lie was a Lie | 9-4-2003
| White House Admits Letting Bin Laden's out of the Country on 9/12 | 9-4-2003
| The Bush Defense | 9-4-2003
| Blair Lied, so Bush Lied | 9-3-2003
| Pointing Fingers at Bush | 9-3-2003
| Duped? Doped? Bush as the Victim | 9-3-2003
| Right and Left Meet in Opposition to Bush Imperialism | 9-3-2003
| The Worm Turns | 9-1-2003
| Can This Fight Be Won? | 8-26-2003
| More Lies from the White House | 8-25-2003
| US/Pakistan Agree NOT to Capture Bin Laden | 8-24-2003
| Losing the Peace - As in Afganistan, Iraq is Proving an Intractable Problem for the Bush Administration | 8-24-2003
| Bush's Other Unemployment Problem | 8-21-2003
| Shame on Bush - No Welcome mat In Oregon | 8-7-2003
| Al Gore Remarks to MoveOn.org at New York University | 8-5-2003
| More UnDiplomatic Diplomacy Towards North Korea | 8-5-2003
| Building a House of Cards | 8-1-2003
| Often-Wrong Cheney | 8-1-2003
| David Kay Leaks Progress | 7-31-2003
| Poindexter Goes Down Again | 7-30-2003
| I lied, too Bad | 7-29-2003
| As Ridiculous as it is Grotesque | 7-28-2003
| The Rumor Mill | 7-26-2003
| Bush's Consistent Failing - No Concern for the American Economy | 7-24-2003
| Tough-Guy Stance Not Working In Korea | 7-22-2003
| Hadley Did It | 7-21-2003
| No CIA Consultation on Bush WMD State of the Union Speech | 7-18-2003
| Cliff-Notes Style Reading Gets Bush D- on State of the Union Address | 7-17-2003
| Why won't this go away? Durbin Charges that WhiteHouse Pushed for Niger Uranium Claims | 7-17-2003
| CIA Officials Didn't get Copy of State of the Union Address | 7-17-2003
| Who is Robert Joseph | 7-15-2003
| Taliban is the Key to Iran | 7-15-2003
| 16 Words Just the TIP of the Iceberg | 7-14-2003
| Bush Told Tenet to Keep the Niger Claims In | 7-14-2003
| Veteran Intelligence Community Calls for Cheney''s Head | 7-13-2003
| Bush Credibility Crisis - Al Quaeda to the Rescue | 7-11-2003
| How the Land of the Free Became the Dinosaur in the Tar Pit | 7-11-2003
| The Hard Questions If Tenet Told Blair Why didn't he tell Bush | 7-10-2003
| 150,000 Soldier Security Force | 7-10-2003
| More DoubleSpeak | 7-3-2003
| BRING 'EM ON! | 7-2-2003
| The Anonymous Reuters Lie | 7-1-2003
| Iraq War is Over, but the Fighting Goes On | 7-1-2003
| What Joseph Wilson Didn't Find in Africa | 6-27-2003
| Waxman - Why did Bush Lie? | 6-27-2003
| Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq | 6-25-2003
| AP - US Didn't kill Bin Laden when they had the Chance | 6-19-2003
| Cynthia McKinney - Bush didn't know about 9/11 | 6-16-2003
| Write Your Congressman, and while you're at it, Sign the Impeachment Petition | 6-13-2003
| Gosh, D'ya Think They Might Have Lied | 6-13-2003
| Call for Impeachment Widens | 6-13-2003
| Bush Lied | 6-13-2003
| Here's The Point | 6-12-2003
| UN - No War Crimes Trials for US Soldiers | 6-11-2003
| Bush Administration Says No Probe into Faked Intelligence on Iraqi WMD | 6-11-2003
| It depends on what you mean by -HAS- George has some splainin to do. | 6-11-2003
| David Kay - it's not about the smoking gun | 6-10-2003
| Dumbing Down the War | 6-9-2003
| Damage Control and Spin | 6-2-2003
| Powell - I'm not Reading this Bullshit | 5-30-2003
| "Inalienable Rights" at the Pleasure of the Bush Administration? | 5-29-2003
| Lynch Rescue Ruse | 5-27-2003
| Read it Here First | 5-25-2003
| Israeli Intelligence Leaks Knowledge of Iraqi Weapons Moved to Lebanon before US Invasion | 5-22-2003
| Whitman Resigns Citing Bush Administration's Environmental Failures | 5-19-2003
| Excuse - who can count them? Stopping Terrorism | 5-16-2003
| International Criminal Court Preferred Venue for Tommy Franks War Crimes | 5-13-2003
| We Give Up - There're No Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq | 5-12-2003
| Will the real Paul Bremmer please stand up? | 5-9-2003
| 9/11 Inquiry Access Stalled by White House - Victims Reach out to Community for Help | 5-7-2003
| Tommy Franks and Others to be Tried for War Crimes in Belgium | 5-6-2003
| The Blade Cut Loose - Mitch Daniels Resigns | 4-26-2003
| John Bolton Warns Syria, Libya, Cuba on Weapons of Mass Destruction | 4-24-2003
| Trickle Down Tax Cut | 4-24-2003
| Oil For Food - US to Manage Iraqi Food Supply | 4-22-2003
| No International Oversight for Weapons Inspectors | 4-18-2003
| Rumsfeld - I don't think we'll find any. | 4-17-2003
| Bechtel Rumsfeld Bush | 4-16-2003
| Excuses Are like Abu Abbas | 4-14-2003
| Three Excuses - Oops, did I say Iraq, I meant Syria | 4-11-2003
| Liberation Anarchy Iraq | 4-11-2003
| so that's it, no weapons, no saddam, no liberation | 4-10-2003
| Three Diplomatic Mistakes | 4-9-2003
| Syria - the new Iraq | 4-9-2003
| Wow, that was easy - Iraq War Over | 4-6-2003
| Turn Left at Bagdad - There's Syria | 4-6-2003
| Ooops - forgot to look at the Airport | 4-5-2003
| Victory with Victory - How to Win a War without objectives. | 4-5-2003
| Excuse IV - Saddam Might Be The Next Hitler | 4-4-2003
| Bush to Rule Iraq | 4-3-2003
| Mourning the Dead | 4-3-2003
| April Glaspie - US Ambassador to Iraq, 1990 | 3-27-2003
| Mandela on Bush | 3-26-2003
| Excuse Number II - Liberating the Iraqi People | 3-25-2003
| Haliburton Awarded Massive Iraqi Oil Reconstruction Deal | 3-25-2003
| War Crimes | 3-22-2003
| Will they plant evidence? | 3-21-2003
| Why Do They Hate US? | 3-21-2003
| If they had'em, they'd use 'em? | 3-20-2003
| The Nations of the World Rally | 3-20-2003
| Washington Times: Will Bush Be Impeached for Starting a War? | 3-20-2003
| Global Dispatches | 3-19-2003
| With Thanks To Michael Moore | 3-17-2003
| Bush's St. Patrick's Day War? | 3-17-2003
| Congressman: President Misled UN, Congress, and People | 3-16-2003
| Diplomacy Does Not Equal Extortion | 3-14-2003
| The Evolution of a War Strategy | 3-13-2003
| The Bush Tragedy - The Fatal Flaw | 3-9-2003
| Bush and Christ | 3-6-2003
| TIP Press Conference | 3-5-2003
| U.S. General Jay Garner - EX Star Wars Chief Appointed Head of Iraq | 3-3-2003
| Proposed National Forest Management Act Rules Changes | 2-27-2003
| Bush - Analyzing the Rhetoric | 2-20-2003
| Riding With Bill Maher | 2-15-2003
| world to bush - NO WAR | 2-13-2003
| Military and Congress Sue Bush Over Iraqi War | 2-11-2003
| Poets United Against The War | 2-7-2003
| Colin Powell and the Smokeless Gun | 2-3-2003
| White House Defends Bush's Guard Service During War | 1-30-2003
| Bush Shortsighted and Arrogant - Mandela | 1-30-2003
| Bush Crime Family | 1-29-2003
| Bush 2003 State of the Union Address | 1-24-2003
| U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton Protecting the Iraqi Oil Fields First | 1-22-2003
| Bush Backs SUV's - More Oil for the Mile | 1-22-2003
| Borrow and Spend - No Fiscal Restraint on Iraq | 1-16-2003
| The Iraqi Charade | 1-12-2003
| McLellan Lies about Iraq | 1-5-2003
| US Developing Low Yield Nukes | 1-1-2003
| The Buck Never Stops | 12-30-2002
| Bush gets ready for an Extra 100 Billion in Spending | 12-25-2002
| Bankers running for cover in Government Debt turn to Bush for help. | 12-22-2002
| Taxpayers Gave Bush 67 Million to Steal the Election | 12-16-2002
| The $100,000,000 Man | 12-16-2002
| Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of Homeland Security Organization Chosen to lead investigation of Homeland Security | 12-13-2002
| Sabbotaging an Investigation? | 12-10-2002
| Godzilla and Mothra are watching the Henhouse | 12-4-2002
| Kissinger's Refusal | 12-4-2002
| Kissinger should be answering questions - not asking them. | 12-1-2002
| SMOKING GUN: The Evidence that May Hang G.W. Bush | 11-18-2002
| CNN Report on the Toothless Watchdog SEC | 11-12-2002
| US Military in Iraq for months, finally the press picks it up. | 11-6-2002
| American Oil Companies Meet to Divvy Up the Spoils | 11-4-2002
| George Bush - Cocaine Addict? | 10-31-2002
| William Webster - A Bush Sr. Cronie for a do-nothing SEC | 10-25-2002
| Bush AWOL - Deserter | 10-24-2002
| Sniper - GW's Shootist Diversion | 10-21-2002
| The Korean War II - Will Bush Take Them ALL OUT? | 10-14-2002
| The White House Shell Game | 10-13-2002
| World Domination IV - Inspections a Prelude to War | 10-12-2002
| National Emergency Act Continues to Grant Bush Generalized War Powers | 10-4-2002
| Klamath Falls Wildlife - Bush Breaks the LAW again. | 9-29-2002
| The President's Real Goal in Iraq | 9-27-2002
| Bush' Campaign Money Blitz | 9-25-2002
| Bush Preemption Strategy a Recipe for Disaster | 9-25-2002
| American Military Action on Iraqi Soil Increases in Last 2 Weeks | 9-25-2002
| MASSACHUSETTS COURT CASE HINTS AT MAJOR BREAK IN CIA DRUG STORY | 9-24-2002
| FBI Foreknowledge - But The Buck Stops Where? | 9-21-2002
| Reuters Reports CIA Foreknwoledge of Sept. 11 Attacks | 9-20-2002
| World Domination III - No Support from UN? | 9-20-2002
| George Bush Prevented FBI Action Leading to 9-11 Attacks | 9-20-2002
| Jose Padilla - American Citizen Taken Hostage by US Government | 9-20-2002
| Impeach George Bush | 9-20-2002
| Impeach George Bush | 9-7-2002
| Bush War Double-Speak | 9-3-2002
| Bush And CIA Complicit in WTC Disaster | 9-3-2002
| Bush Provokes Iraq | 9-2-2002
| Dubya Created our So-Called Recession | 9-2-2002
| Is Bush Pro Democracy? | 9-2-2002
| The Carlylye Group | 9-2-2002
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