Bush Admin

Source: www.moreover.com --- 8 days ago
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion advocacy groups submitted hundreds of thousands of petitions to the Bush administration on Wednesday opposing a draft measure that would enforce existing laws protecting pro-life doctors. ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 51 days ago
A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear ... ...

Source: www.foxnews.com --- 44 days ago
The Democratic-controlled Congress and President Bush are headed to yet another veto showdown this year on intelligence matters, this time on whether the president should be required to divulge to lawmakers more of the nation's most closely held secrets. ...

Source: www.foxnews.com --- 38 days ago
Rocky deposits in western U.S. could yield 800 billion barrels of oil, but federal land needs to be explored. ...

Source: bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com --- 41 days ago
I wanted to share an interview former Bush United Nations Ambassador John Bolton did with Fox about the administration’s decision to send the State Department’s No. 3 diplomat, William Burns, to meetings this weekend in Geneva to discuss an incentive package aimed at deterring Iran for building and deploying nuclear weapons. Bolton is on the outside looking [...] ...

Source: www.dagbladet.no --- 26 days ago
Anne Applebaum lurer på hva som sjedde med «Europas time.» ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 29 days ago
Bob Schieffer says the White House's opinion that the FDA should not regulate tobacco because it has too much to do might have been written by Lewis Carroll. ...

Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com --- 4 days ago
Some interesting news broke today that has been buried amid the orgy of convention coverage: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said -- apparently in a speech to tribal leaders in the Green Zone -- that the U.S. and Iraq had agreed that all "foreign soldiers" would leave Iraq by the end of 2011. Maliki was promptly shot down by the White House, which maintained there is no pullout date. U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have been working toward an agreement for months , with the U.S. seeking a legal basis for stationing troops in Iraq when U.N. authority expires at the end of this year. Here's how Campbell Robertson of the International Herald Tribune reported Maliki's comments today: Iraq and the United States have agreed on a date for the departure of all American troops as part of a broader security pact they are negotiating, the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, said Monday. "There is actually an agreement concluded between the two parties over the definite date, which is 2011, to end any foreign presence on Iraqi soil," Maliki said. Maliki made the comments in a speech to tribal leaders in the Green Zone in Baghdad, but it was far from clear that the issue had been settled. In its own version of the story, Agence France-Presse runs a slightly different Maliki quote: "There is an agreement between the two sides that there will be no foreign soldiers in Iraq after 2011," Maliki said in a statement issued by his office. AFP ...

Source: newsbusters.org --- 21 days ago
On Thursday’s Countdown show, one night after accusing President Bush of not doing enough to protect America from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organization before the September 11th attacks, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann seemed sympathetic to the plight of bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, during the show’s regular "Bushed" segment which purports to update viewers on what the Countdown host sees as Bush administration scandals. Following Hamdan’s sentencing in a military court during which the judge expressed an apology to the bin Laden aide as he handed down a sentence that would make Hamdan eligible for release in six months, the American military indicated Hamdan may still be kept prisoner at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely in spite of the ruling, prompting Olbermann to accuse the Bush administration of "urinating" on the Constitution, and making Hamdan one of the "victims" of its "medieval" justice system. Olbermann: "So, besides urinating on the Constitution and the rights and freedoms every American soldier has ever fought to win and protect, the Bush administration has now decided that when its victims have actually served their sentences, doled out under its own medieval, quote, "justice," unquote, system, it still might not choose to set them free, thereby giving that Constitution and our country a second pass on the way out." (Transcripts follow) Ironically, just the day before on Wednesday’s show, the Countdown host marked ...

Source: www.grist.org --- 3 days ago
On the same day that President Bush moved toward creation of marine sanctuaries in the Pacific , his administration proposed cutting by 10 nautical miles a speed-limit zone in the Atlantic meant to protect critically endangered right whales. The proposal would cut the area covered by the speed zones to 20 nautical miles offshore from the original 30; ship collisions are the most common cause of death for the 300 or so North Atlantic right whales that comprise the world's entire remaining population. The speed zones would be the first to take effect on behalf of wildlife on the East Coast and would be in force each year during the whale's annual migration, requiring ships to slow to 10 knots. Environmentalists and wildlife advocates have decried the weakened proposal, arguing that the right whale is so extremely endangered that any dip in protections could push them into extinction. The shipping industry has strongly opposed speed zones of any size, arguing that time is money in the shipping industry. A speed-limit zone on behalf of right whales was first proposed in 2006. sources:  The Washington Post , The New York Times , Associated Press ...

Source: kdka.com --- 16 days ago
The Bush administration on Wednesday sought to document whether Russia was violating the cease-fire intended to end Moscow's punishing military attacks in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. ...

Source: www.grist.org --- 48 days ago
Instead of deciding whether greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human health and welfare and formulating standards to reduce them -- as the Supreme Court ordered -- the EPA will run out the clock for the next few months soliciting more public comment. The Supreme Court ordered the EPA last year to decide on the GHG-endangerment question, or at the very least, to think up a really good excuse why it hadn't decided. However, today the agency will essentially announce that it's doing neither and will instead ask for more public comments. The Bush administration has repeatedly sought to stall , alter , and obstruct EPA staff findings on the impact of greenhouse gases throughout the entire process, and the meddling continues today. The Washington Post is reporting that the administration kept EPA staff from submitting a supporting document with today's announcement that outlined the benefits of reducing GHG emissions. However, an EPA spokesperson tried to spin the new delay as democracy in action, declaring, "We're going to be more transparent than we've been, laying it all out and saying, 'How should we do this?'" source:  The Washington Post ...

Source: wcbstv.com --- 49 days ago
The Bush administration has rejected regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would cause too many job losses at a time when the economy is in trouble. ...

Source: www.democracynow.org --- 16 days ago
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee say they will review allegations the White House ordered the CIA to forge and disseminate false intelligence documents linking al-Qaeda and Iraq. The revelation is among several in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind’s explosive new book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism . Suskind joins us for the hour to talk about the letter controversy and the thin denials that have followed its disclosure. He also reveals details of his lengthy conversations with the late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto and her frustrations with the Bush administration in the months before her assassination, and discloses the previously unknown case of an interrogation "cell" beneath the White House. [includes rush transcript - partial] ...

Source: www.grist.org --- 18 days ago
The Bush administration may push through changes to the Endangered Species Act that would -- surprise! -- be detrimental to endangered species. Tens of thousands of projects funded, built, or authorized by federal agencies each year would be exempt from currently mandated independent reviews, according to a leaked proposal. Instead, the administration has determined that federal agencies now have the know-how to decide whether highways, dams, mines, and the like would harm endangered species -- and the regulations would not allow agencies to include greenhouse-gas emissions in those calculations. "We believe federal action agencies will err on the side of caution in making these determinations," says the draft document. Ha ha ha! Oh, that's not a joke? The proposal is expected to be made public within weeks and will require only a 60-day comment period -- not congressional approval -- before being finalized. sources:  Associated Press , National Wildlife Federation see for yourself:  Read the leaked proposal [PDF] ...

Source: www.drudge.com --- 42 days ago
In a release Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) announced he will hold a hearing July 25 examining "the imperial presidency of George W. Bush and possible legal responses." ...

Source: www.myantiwar.org --- 15 days ago
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind joins us for part two of an interview on his new book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. Suskind reports that in 2003 the White House ordered the CIA to forge and disseminate false intelligence documents linking al-Qaeda and Iraq. While much of the attention on the book has focused on the forged letter, Suskind also reveals that the Bush administration and the British government knew prior to the war that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. We also speak to Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating some of the explosive findings in Suskind’s book. [includes rush transcript – partial] ...

Source: www.pww.org --- 19 days ago
In a last minute action, political operatives at the US Department of Labor are rushing to lock in new requirements that would make it harder for the next administration to develop and issue protective workplace health rules. ...