JERRY POURNELLE: “I would have thought that the Obama administration is at least as responsible for the US response to the Swine Flu problem as the Bushadministration ever was for the New Orleans response to Katrina, but the media are not reporting it that way. I wonder how those who stood in long [...]
Random DU comment from 5 years ago: “This may be Bush’s Waterloo!” Kerry points to Bush on vaccine shortage What a difference five years makes on flu vaccine shortage And a letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star [1], Inequity in politics of flu vaccine shortages During the Bushadministration, the Democrats seized on the shortage [...]
From the Weekly Standard: Can anything else possibly go wrong for the Obama administration's Middle East policy? In the past ten days, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has twice reversed herself publicly on her attitude toward the Israeli settlements. Palestinians have refused her direct request to rejoin peace talks with Israel, and Palestinian Authority president Abbas has said he will not...
Some forget that the economy went into free fall during the late days of the Bushadministration, wiping out the McCain-Palin ticket. Without initiatives begun in the first ten months of the Obama administration, things would no doubt be worst than they are today.
This week, I participated in a panel discussion about the Bushadministration's "torture memos" with a former Bushadministration official, Daniel Levin. And it turns...
Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping Antifascist Calling… – 2009-11-05 by Tom Burghardt President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret...
... system of issuing IDs to all Federal employees and contractors across all agencies. But, under the BushAdministration, no good idea went unexploited for opportunities to deny people their basic civil liberties. The implementation of HSPD#12 became a wholesale attempt to get anyone with access to a Federal facility (including my wife who was a grad student in a NASA run building)...
“The fact that the military — in this instance NORTHCOM — is being trained to operate with our borders should be setting off alarms throughout this nation. But it’s being ignored even by those who profess to be conservatives,” Read On MORE: Barack Obama Continues BushAdministration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus [...]
The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bushadministration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.
The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bushadministration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. Last May, the Inspector General’s office rescinded and repudiated a prior internal investigation’s report on the retired military analyst program, which...
by Brad Jacobson The Pentagon's Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bushadministration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. read more
The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bushadministration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has pleaded guilty to giving false information to Bushadministration officials who vetted his unsuccessful 2004 nomination to be homeland security secretary.
... see an Oct. 27 article from the Associated Press reporting that safety officials under the Obama administration has abandoned an effort by the Bushadministration to extend the hours of service allowable for truckers. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has not promised to return to the previous rule, but signed an agreement to revise it. The AP says that...
[Read Part I, Part II and Part III of this series.] The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bushadministration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. Last May, the Inspector General’s office rescinded and repudiated a prior internal investigation’s report...