On AlterNet: bush administration
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "bush administration"
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. June 22, 2009.
The accountability debate is far from over.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. June 19, 2009.
They shredded our economic safety nets, but for them jobs are plentiful and lucrative. You'll be surprised to know who's cashing in and where.
Barbara O'Brien, AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. May 31, 2009.
Conservatives say they're for states' rights -- but corporate rights come first.
Jacob Heilbrun, Huffington Post. May 22, 2009.
Cheney made clear in his speech that his war isn't against terrorism. It's against Obama.
Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. May 19, 2009.
Much ado about Nancy Pelosi, the Bush Administration, torture, and stealing office supplies.
tristero, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. May 15, 2009.
There simply is no good reason why the leading members of the Bush administration should not stand trial.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. May 14, 2009.
Pelosi's assertion that the CIA wasn't upfront has Republicans fuming. The phrase of the day? "Feigned outrage."
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. May 13, 2009.
The suspicious death of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who was tortured into lying about an Iraq-al Qaeda connection, raises a series of troubling questions.
Roy Eidelson, TruthOut.org. May 12, 2009.
Stats show a sizable majority of Americans refuse to rule out torture entirely. This is no accident; it's the result of a mass persuasion campaign.
Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. May 7, 2009.
Why do we leave it to children to demand the truth about torture and the rule of law?
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. May 6, 2009.
Federal investigators say the torture memo authors only committed 'serious lapses of judgment,' not crimes. Critics say that's 'outrageous.'
Scott Horton, The Daily Beast. April 28, 2009.
Obama insists America must "look forward" on the question of torture and accountability, but we're far from closure.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 27, 2009.
If Democrats are looking for an excuse to do the right thing, they don't have to say much more than, "We're doing what Bush told us to do."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 11, 2009.
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer discusses the fallout from the Red Cross' shocking report on CIA torture and its serious legal implications.
Daniel Luban, Ali Gharib, IPS News. April 9, 2009.
The new budget proposed by Defense Secretary Gates is higher than any of the Bush budgets that preceded it.
John Byrne, Raw Story. April 8, 2009.
In a legal filing on Friday, Obama lawyers claimed the government is shielded from lawsuits by a 'sovereign immunity' clause in the Patriot Act.
Barbara O'Brien, AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009.
The Bush Administration may be over, but federal agencies like OSHA are still staffed and run by Bush hires. And that's a problem.
John Nichols, TheNation.com. March 3, 2009.
MoveOn's new director says the group has other priorities than telling Obama he's wrong on Afghanistan. This is a mistake.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. February 20, 2009.
It's now up to Obama to decide whether to find homes for the Uighurs in the U.S., or to keep them at Gitmo until further notice.
John Nichols, The Nation. February 10, 2009.
Obama is rebuffing even the most feeble attempts at accountability for the crimes of the Bush administration.
Doug Kreeger, AlterNet. February 4, 2009.
It is abundantly clear that the Republican leaders are going to do everything to prevent Obama and the Dems from doing anything constructive.
Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Huffington Post. February 2, 2009.
Naysayers warn against reckoning with the sins of the past, calling it partisan payback. I could not disagree more.
John Tirman, The Nation. February 2, 2009.
Now that Bush is gone, perhaps we can honestly face the damage we have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it.
Chisun Lee, ProPublica. January 30, 2009.
An interactive guide to the Bush administration's classified legal opinions in the 'War on Terror' reveals how much we still don't know.
David Michael Green, AlterNet. January 19, 2009.
The eight years of national suicide known as the Bush administration is at last coming to an end.
