The Honesty President Brings Dignity Back to the White House!

(updated February 1st, 2005)
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Bush Vs. Bush

• Taking Bush at His Word, by Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, October 30, 2004
• Bush broke promises about environment, by Cecil Andrus, Bruce Babbitt, and Stewart Udall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 21, 2004
• America's hidden vote, by Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian [UK], October 21, 2004
  Passing almost without notice earlier this month, the public release of The Civil Rights Record of the George W Bush Administration - the official staff report prepared by the US Civil Rights Commission - whose submission is required by federal law, was blocked by the Republican commissioners. None the less, it was posted on the commission's website: "This report finds that President Bush has neither exhibited leadership on pressing civil rights issues, nor taken actions that matched his words."
• If anyone is a waffler, it's George Bush, Toronto Star, Oct. 16, 2004
• George Bush, Tax Hiker, by Jonathan Chait, LA Times, October 15, 2004
  Kerry raised taxes 98 times over 20 years? That's nothing. Bush is about to do the same 63 times in a single day.
• Bush: The Worst Mexican President Ever, by El Fisgón, Tomdispatch.com, October 14, 2004
  The typical Mexican political boss has an inclination toward violence and cruelty; he despises legality and intellectual activity, has a personal history of alcoholism and dissipation and lies systematically. Sound familiar?
• 94 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH, by Bob Whitby, Orlando Weekly, Published 10/14/04
  It doesn't matter who you are or what you believe, George W. Bush has betrayed you, specifically and repeatedly.
• Bush Recasts Rationale For War After Report, by Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, October 10, 2004
• Bush milks the crowd, Capital Times, October 9, 2004
  While Bush told a Wisconsin farmers he supports extending the Milk Income Loss Contract Program, his Republican colleagues in Congress were blocking an effort to get the MILC extension enacted...
• Bush reneged on assault-gun pledge, by Richard Evans, Roanoke Times, September 28, 2004
• Words, Actions at Odds on Children's Health Care: U.S. Poised to Take Back $1.1 Billion Despite Bush's Vow, by Ceci Connolly, Washington Post, September 25, 2004
• Bush backflip in combat appeal, by Phillip Coorey, The Australian, September 20, 2004
• Flip-flopper in Chief: George Bush's image as a strong and decisive leader is a creation of journalists too lazy to notice that the president has a long history of changing his positions to suit his political needs, by David Brock and Jamison Foser, AlterNet, September 8, 2004.
• The unwinnable war, by James Carroll, Boston Globe, September 7, 2004
• Consistently Inconsistent, LA Times, September 3, 2004
• Bush's 2000 War Promises, CBS News, Sept. 1st, 2004
• Bush says U.S. will win war he called unwinnable Dems ask, what if Reagan said same about Cold War? By Marc Sandalow, Washington Bureau Chief, San Francsisco Chronicle, September 1st, 2004
• I Can't Win This War: George Bush the Peace Candidate? By Dave Lindorff, August 31, 2004
• Media ignores another Bush flip-flop: Bush was for 527s -- before he was against them, Media Matters for America, August 27th, 2004
• Bush is letting assault weapons ban expire, by Stephen Young, Chicago Sun-Times, August 14, 2004
• Who's the REAL Flip-Flopper? Flips, flops, and flounders by President Bush, by Roland X, 8-3-04
• The Bush Flip-Flopping Details: Next time someone brings up "Kerry's Flip-Flopping," send them here! by Jackson Thoreau, 8-3-04
• The real flip-flopper: The list of Bush's major policy U-turns is as audacious as it is long, by Arianna Huffington, July 15, 2004
• As a candidate in 2000, Bush [went] to the NAACP convention and made quite a point of it. “Our nation is harmed when we let our differences separate and divide us,” Bush declared. “So, while some in my party have avoided the NAACP, and while some in the NAACP have avoided my party, I am proud to be here today.” As a candidate in 2004 he intends to become the first President since Herbert Hoover not to address the group, engaging in a boycott because he claim the NAACP are "hostile" to him.
• Originally intending to honor President Ronald Reagan with a 30 period of national mourning flags went to half mast, but were raised early by presidential order so that the demoralizing effect of flags at half mast would not be part of our July 4th festivities.
• Top 10 Bush Flip Flops, The Weekly Bush
• Flip-Flopper-in-Chief: The top 20 reversals of the President
• Bush's Kiss of Death, by Molly Ivins, AlterNet.org, Posted June 9, 2004.
• Campaign Double Standards Kerry "Missteps" Get Lavish Media Attention, While Bush Falsehoods Ignored FAIR, May 20, 2004
• Bush Stresses Importance of Nunn-Lugar Programs but Cuts Funds in 2005 Budget Request, by Miles A. Pomper, Arms Control Association, March, 2004
• 2003: A Year of Distortion for the American People (December 14, 2003, the year in review by Center for American Progress)
• AIDS, Race Offices Will Remain Active: White House spokesman says earlier statement that task forces would end was a mistake. Critics accuse Bush of 'doublespeak.' By James Gerstenzang, Marlene Cimons, Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2001

Whoppers

• Bush Forges Weak Links to Legacies of Democratic Predecessors, by Ronald Brownstein, LA Times, January 31, 2005
  In fact, in each instance, the Bush team is citing the Democrats to sell policies that reverse the strategies those presidents pursued. It's as if General Motors were using a testimonial from Ralph Nader to sell an updated Corvair.
• Bush's claims need to be checked out, by Dave Zweifel, Capital Times, January 14, 2005
• President of Fabricated Crises, by Harold Meyerson, Washington Post, January 12, 2005
• Leading by Misleading, by Molly Ivins, AlterNet, January 11, 2005
  "From the Iraqi elections to Social Security, the Bush administration fudges, distorts and plays a phony statistics game."
• Reality Always Wins: Bush/Cheney have to lose, as all such crackpot movements must. In fact, it wouldn't be inaccurate to call them losers – as that is clearly how, deep down, they see themselves, for all their would-be macho swagger. By Mark Crispin Miller, AlterNet, November 1, 2004
• A Post-Bush Mind-Set, by Ellen Goodman, Washington Post, October 30, 2004
• Bush steps out of a Graham Greene novel, by H.D.S. Greenway, Boston Globe, October 30, 2004
• For Bush, Too Late for Honesty: Missing munitions spark an explosion of administration excuses. by Jonathan Chait, LA Times, October 29, 2004
• Bush's aversion to facts, by Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe, October 29, 2004
• $8 Million Worth Of Distortions: Two Bush ads full of misleading and false statements ran more than 9,000 times in 45 cities last week. FactCheck.Org, October 21, 2004
• Don't mess with Mass. Boston Globe, October 16, 2004
  MASSACHUSETTS, as portrayed by President Bush, is a state of feckless spendthrifts. Governor Romney, who is campaigning for the Republican ticket this weekend, needs to present the reality: that his home state knows how to balance its books while prudently providing the money for essential programs.
• Checking the Facts, in Advance, by Paul Krugman, New York Times, October 12, 2004
  "It's not hard to predict what President Bush, who sounds increasingly desperate, will say tomorrow. Here are eight lies or distortions you'll hear, and the truth about each..."
• Bush's campaign of distortion, by Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe, October 8, 2004
• LIE PATROL, Washington Monthly, October 6, 2004
• Cheney's Avalanche of Lies, by William Rivers Pitt, truthout, 06 October 2004
• You Call That a Major Policy Address? In a week of devastating revelations about his Iraq policies, Bush has nothing new to say, by Fred Kaplan, Slate, Oct. 6, 2004
• The Global Test: It's called reality. By William Saletan. SLATE, Oct. 4, 2004
• Swagger vs. Substance, by Paul Krugman, New York Times, September 28, 2004
• Fact-Checking Bush's UN Address, by Stephen Zunes, AntiWar.com, September 28, 2004
  • Text of Bush's speech to the U.N. General Assembly
• The fine art of lying to win elections in a democracy, by Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, The Daily Star, September 23, 2004
• Twisting the Truth, by E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, September 24, 2004
• The enemy is us: In war, you deny information, spread lies and use psychological warfare. An expert on military information operations explains how Bush has mastered this technique -- and used it against the American people. By Sam Gardiner, Salon.com, 09/22/04
• Reality Checks, by Dan Froomkin, Special to washingtonopost.com, September 17, 2004
• Bush - Lies, Damned Lies, and Excuses, by David Corn, DavidCorn.com, September 16, 2004
• The Dishonesty Thing, by Paul Krugman, New York Times, September 10, 2004
• THE 2004 GOP CONVENTION: FOUR DAYS FILLED WITH LIES, MISCHARACTERIZATIONS, DISTORTIONS, AND HALF-TRUTHS, One Thousand Reasons, Sept 5th, 2004
• The Bush Betrayal
• The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, A comprehensive collection by journalist David Corn
• Editorial: Sickly tactics / A high price for the prescription drug plan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 15, 2004
• Bush's Two Albatrosses, by David S. Broder, Washington Post, August 15, 2004
• Bush wants to be “the peace president”, by Adam Entous, Reuters News Agency, July 20, 2004
• When will reporters call Bush a liar?, by Jason Sazman, The Topeka [KS] Capital-Journal, May 24, 2004
• "No President has ever done more for human rights than I have." To Ken Auletta of the New Yorker, January 11th, 2004
• Convicted of Drunk Driving, and Lied to Cover It Up
• Lying Under Oath: Bush & Co. Squelch Investigation of Contributor's Funeral Homes

Lies about the War

• Bush folks don't bother to check facts, by Dave Zweifel, The Capital Times, January 31, 2005
  Jumana Michael Hanna, an Iraqi woman who told about the horrific torture she suffered at the hands of Saddam Hussein's henchmen.imprisoned for more than two years, subjected to electric shocks, repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted...however, it appears that the story may have all been a hoax.
• Holding WMD Liars Accountable, by John Nichols, The Nation, January 17, 2005
• Bush, Osama and Israel: Concealing Causes and Consequences, by William A. Cook, Counterpunch, January 10, 2005
• Letting Down the Troops, by Bob Herbert, New York Times, October 29, 2004
• How to Skew Intelligence, New York Times, October 23, 2004
  A report issued Thursday by the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin of Michigan, shows that on the question of an Iraqi-Qaeda axis, Mr. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others offered an indictment that was essentially fabricated in the office of Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy.
• Senator Says Pentagon Office Massaged Iraq Data, by Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters, Oct 21, 2004
• Gore Charges Bush With Prewar Deceit: President Called Reckless, Dishonest, by Mike Allen, Washington Post, October 19, 2004
• So, Did Saddam Try to Kill Bush's Dad?, by Jim Lobe, AntiWar.com, October 19, 2004
  In October, 1993, however, New Yorker investigative journalist Seymour Hersh assailed the government's case as "seriously flawed," noting among other problems that seven bomb experts had told him that the devices were mass-produced and probably not even manufactured in Iraq.
• Our War on Terrorism: With the failure so obvious, and the president tripping over his words trying to pretend otherwise, it astonishes us that a majority of Americans believe the president has done "a good job" in the war on terrorism. By Howard Zinn, The Progressive, October 19, 2004
• This week's casualty: the legal case for war in Iraq, by Robin Cook, The Guardian, October 15, 2004
  It can only be a matter of time before the invasion is challenged in court
• The Debates and the Big Lie: To Escape from Blunder, First Admit Reality, by Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch, October 11, 2004
• Ignorance is strength, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER. October 8, 2004
• What we have here is a failure to find justification for war, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 8, 2004
• Lies fueled march to war, Capital Times, October 7, 2004
• War's Rationales Are Undermined One More Time: Revelations May Hurt Bush's Image, by Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, October 7, 2004
• Lies Upon Lies: Is There Still Time to Impeach Bush? By Jason Leopold, Counterpunch, October 7, 2004
• Bush's Case for War Crumbles, by Jim Lobe, AntiWar.com, October 7, 2004
• Empty lies, empty excuses, by Martin Schram, Capital Hill Blue, Oct 6, 2004
• U.S. Report Finds Iraq Was Minimal Weapons Threat in '03, by Douglas Jehl, New York Times, October 6, 2004
• Rumsfeld's missing link, The Guardian, October 6, 2004
• Now They Tell Us LA Times, October 6, 2004
• Report Discounts Iraqi Arms Threat: U.S. Inspector Says Hussein Lacked Means, by Mike Allen and Dana Priest, Washington Post, October 6, 2004
• CIA review finds no evidence Saddam had ties to Islamic terrorists, by Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay, and John Walcott, Knight Ridder Newspapers, Oct. 05, 2004
• War Lies Are Piling Up, by Ivan Eland, AntiWar.com, October 5, 2004
• The Nuclear Bomb That Wasn't, New York Times, October 5, 2004
• Buck Stops in the Voting Booth, by Robert Scheer, LA Times, October 5, 2004
  George W. Bush twice claimed that the two men had "looked at the same intelligence" on Iraq before the war when, in fact, they hadn't.
• How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence, by David Barsto, William J. Broad, and Jeff Gerth, New York Times, October 3, 2004
• Saddam as the Twentieth Hijacker, by James Bovard, Future Freedom of Foundation, October 1, 2004
• High Time for Bush to Tell the Truth, by Ray McGovern, AntiWar, September 30, 2004
• Record shows Bush shifting on Iraq war: President's rationale for the invasion continues to evolve, by Marc Sandalow, San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2004
  "Mixed signals are the wrong signals," Bush said last week during a campaign stop in Bangor, Maine. "I will continue to lead with clarity, and when I say something, I'll mean what I say." Yet, heading into the first presidential debate Thursday, which will focus on foreign affairs, there is much in the public record to suggest that Bush's words on Iraq have evolved -- or, in the parlance his campaign often uses to describe Kerry, flip-flopped.
• In Party Speech, Blair Admits Political Cost of Iraq Mistakes, by Patrick E. Tyler, New York Times, September 28, 2004
• Intelligence Ignored: Each of George Bush's claims about Iraq is in direct contradiction to the assessments of his own intelligence officials, by Christy Harvey and Judd Legum and Jonathan Baskin, Center for American Progress, September 28, 2004
• Prewar Assessment on Iraq Saw Chance of Strong Divisions, by Douglas Jehl, and David E. Sanger, New York Times, September 28, 2004
• Ellsberg calls for change, truth, by Jim Feehan, The Register-Guard, September 26th, 2004
• Key Bush Assertions About Iraq in Dispute, Reuters, Sep 26, 2004
• Commander-In-Chief's Bait-And-Switch, by Harley Sorensen, San Francisco Chronicle, September 20, 2004
  "The thing that rankles me most about George W. Bush these days is the way he lies to our troops."
• Hawkish 'Washington Post' Hits Bush on Iraq, Editor & Publisher, September 19, 2004
  "In a surprise that could influence editorial pages of other newspapers, not to mention the current presidential contest, The Washington Post, which has been hawkish on Iraq since before the war, has accused President Bush of being 'bland to the point of dishonesty' in his recent comments on the deteriorating situation in Iraq."
• McCain: Bush not straight enough on Iraq, CNN, September 19, 2004
  Senators of both parties criticize his picture of conditions there: Several Republicans and Democrats took President Bush to task on Sunday's talk shows over his repeated assertions that all is well in Iraq.
• In quiet news leak, U.S. arms teams face up to Blix's `ordinary reality', by Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press, 9/18/2004
• Intentions Versus Reality in Iraq, New York Times, September 18, 2004
• Iraq had no WMD: the final verdict, by Julian Borger, The Guardian [UK], September 18, 2004
• Iraq's bridge too far, by Arnaud de Borchgrave, United Press International, September 15, 2004
• Lucas: War vote a mistake, by Feoshia Henderson, Cincinnati Post, September 11th, 2004
  'I really feel like I was misled'
• As war toll climbs, Bush still deceives, by Derrick Z. Jackson, September 10, 2004
• American intentions all too clear to Iraqis, by Jim Mullins, South Florida Sun-Sentinal, September 2nd, 2004
• Bush's lies cause untold pain, by Andrew Greely, Chicago Sun-Times, August 27, 2004
• The Man Without Doubt: George Bush, by Mick Youther, Intervention Magazine, August 26th, 2004
• Win Without War's collection of lies and refutations
• Claim Vs. Fact: Pre-War Administration assertions compared to David Kay's Report
• Bush's 'Broken Toys', by Robert Parry, Consortiaumnews.com, July 31, 2004
• Bush Continues the 'Big Lie' in the Face of Mountains of Contrary Evidence, by Ivan Eland, AntiWar.com, June 22, 2004
• Bush administration has used 27 rationales for war in Iraq, study says, Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor, University of Illinois News Bureau, 5/10/04
• The president as illusionist, by Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe, April 16, 2004
• Worse than Watergate: If Bush lied about the reasons for war it could be an impeachable offense. by John W. Dean, June 11, 2003
• Bush's Alderaan by Robert Parry, April 8, 2003 "In the latest sign of a troubled American democracy, a large majority of U.S. citizens now say they wouldn’t mind if no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq, though it was George W. Bush’s chief rationale for war. Americans also don’t seem to mind that Bush appears to have deceived them for months when he claimed he hadn’t made up his mind about invading Iraq."
• Iraq repercussions trouble top advisers, by John Walcott, San Jose Mercury-News, May 31, 2003
  "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories...
  and we'll find more weapons as time goes on.
  But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons,
  we found them." --George W. Bush
• White House: Bush Misstated Report on Iraq: President Meets With Blair on Strategy Ahead of Speech MSNBC, 7 September, 2002

• What Bush told us:
  1. Iraq was a threat to the United States.
  2. Saddam had ties to al Qaeda.
  3. Saddam tried to buy uranium in Africa to further his nuclear program.
  4. Saddam had stockpiles of chemical weapons.
  5. Saddam had stockpiles of biological weapons.
  6. Saddam had unmanned aerial vehicles that could attack the United States.
  7. We would be greeted at liberators.
  8. The total cost would be $1.7 billion.
  9. The occupation would not require a lot of troops.
  10. Democracy would flourish
  Shouldn't the President be held accountable for this level of falsehood?

  From CNN CROSSFIRE: Was Iraq Right War at Right Time?
  Aired March 19, 2004 - 16:30 ET

Passing the Blame and Refusing to Admit Mistakes

• Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy: No U.S. Troop Withdrawal Date Is Set, By Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post, January 16, 2005
• US voters 'endorsed Iraq policy', BBC News, January 16th, 2005
  President George W Bush has said his re-election has vindicated his administration's policy on Iraq. Mr Bush said there was no need to hold any of his officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgements in pre-war planning or managing the aftermath. In an interview in Sunday's Washington Post he said that his re-election was an "accountability moment".
• Prez never has to say he's sorry, by Michael Harris, Ottowa Sun, January 14, 2005
• Once Again, No Regrets, by Dan Froomkin, Washington Post, January 13, 2005
  On the same day that the White House conceded that its futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was, indeed, finally over, President Bush told Barbara Walters that the invasion of Iraq was "absolutely" worth it.
• Bush's blunders in Iraq, Boston Globe, October 26, 2004
• Bush's Blinkers, by Bob Herbert, New York Times, October 22nd, 2004
• Counter-Errorism: Can Bush Admit What He's Learned in Iraq? By David Ignatius, Washington Post, October 19, 2004
  As the presidential campaign enters its final two weeks, one of the nagging questions is whether President Bush has learned anything from America's reversals in Iraq. The United States has made serious and costly mistakes there, but does Bush see them? On that issue turns an evaluation of his fitness to lead the country for another four years.
• The president who can't be mistaken, by Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe, October 13, 2004
• Webs of Illusion, by Bob Herbert, New York Times, October 11, 2004
  "So the president and his chief supporters have resorted to the odd tactic of claiming that the bad news is good."
• . . . And Bush's Telling Non-Answer, by E. J. Dionne Jr., Washinton Post, October 11, 2004
• Bush message is a broken record, by Anthony B. Robinson, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, October 8, 2004
• Intelligence ignorance, Bostong Globe, September 30, 2004
• The President's Comedy Routine, by Charley Reese, AntiWar.com, September 28, 2004
• DESPITE CHAOS IN IRAQ, BUSH STILL BELIEVES, by Georgie Anne Geyer, Universal Press Syndicate, September 27th, 2004
• The hollow world of George Bush: The power of positive thinking is the president's shield from reality, by Sidney Blumenthal, The Guardian [UK], September 23, 2004
• President Peter Pan: Be it out of political expediency or sheer delusion, George Bush is stubbornly clinging to his head-in-the-sand vision of Iraq. By Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com, September 22, 2004.
• Hindsight On Iraq Not 20/20 For President Bush: Administration’s Denigration Of Due Process Puzzling, by John Lofton, American Conservative, September 17 2004
  Without a doubt, one of the more bizarre statements President Bush has made regarding his decision to go to war in Iraq is what he told an audience in Brecksville-Broadview Heights, Ohio, on September 4, 2004. He was applauded when he said: “Knowing what I know today, knowing what I know today, I would have made the same decision.”
• This Is Bush's Vietnam, by Bob Herbert, New York Times, September 17, 2004
• A Failure of Accountability, Washington Post, August 29, 2004
• Missing the Point, Washington Post, August 23, 2004
  "Gen. Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, was delivering himself of bigoted remarks -- generally while in uniform -- that directly undercut President Bush's repeated insistence that America's war is not against Islam generally and is not a clash of religious civilizations. By unloading the matter on the inspector general, Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Bush avoided having to condemn the remarks forthrightly while seeming to take appropriate action."
• The Exit Door, by Robert Byrd, published by TomPaine.com, September 5, 2004
• Where's the Accountability, Baby? Republicans love the A-word but it seems really hard for them to walk the walk, by Sheila Samples, 8/31/04
• Bush Arrogance vs. CIA Intelligence: The Bush Administration and its supporters want to blame the CIA for faulty intelligence, but the real culprit for our Iraq disaster is President Bush. By Gerald Rellick, Intervention Magazine, July 25th, 2004
• The Erosion of the Rationales, By Dan Froomkin, Special to washingtonpost.com, July 12, 2004
• Bush's Top Aides Exposed an Undercover CIA Agent To Silence Critics
• Bush asks Daschle to limit Sept. 11 probes, CNN, January 29, 2002

Lying with Statistics

• Subverting ScienceNew York Times, October 31, 2004
• Bush sold out to zealots, industry, by Carol Twoarnicky, Knight Ridder Newspapers, September 26, 2004
  To a degree unprecedented in American history, the Bush administration has attempted to "cook" scientific studies to match its religious agenda against abortion and contraception. It also bows down to the doctrine of corporate greed, suppressing or distorting scientific evidence to match the business interests.
• Creative Accounting Only Goes So Far: Unsound transactions are going to catch up with the government. By Bruce Bartlett, National Review, September 08, 2004
• George W. Bush's Record-Breaking Economy, by Mark Weisbrot, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services, July 28th, 2004
• The defiance of science: More than 4,000 scientists have signed a petition accusing George Bush of twisting their work to further his political agenda. 29 June 2004

Lies of Omission, Devotion to Secrecy, and Kids just love to Sit and Spin

• Communicator in Chief Keeps the Focus on Iraq Positive, by Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, January 27, 2005
• Psst. President Bush Is Hard at Work Expanding Government Secrecy, by Dorothy Samuels, New York Times, November 1, 2004
• Kerry Criticizes Delay in Hunger Report, by Jim Abrams, Associated Press, Oct 29, 2004
• A Culture of Cover-Ups, by Paul Krugman, October 26, 2004
  Although President Bush's campaign is based almost entirely on his self-proclaimed leadership in that war, his officials have thrown a shroud of secrecy over any information that might let voters assess his performance.
• A Gaddafi Cover-Up, by David Ignatius, Washington Post, October 26, 2004
• Spinning Iraqi Opinion at Taxpayer Expense, by Juan Cole, AntiWar.com, October 25th, 2004
• The 9/11 secret in the CIA's back pocket: Agency withholds damning report that points at senior officials, by Robert Scheer, Creators Syndicate, 10.19.04
• Getting Beyond Political Packaging--the "Spin," the "Hype," the "Bushing", by Fred Cederholm, Baltimore Chronicle, October 18, 2004
• There are times to spill the secrets, by Daniel Ellsberg, International Herald Tribune, September 29, 2004
• Bush's passion for secrecy, by Renée Loth, Boston Globe, September 21, 2004
• The truth must out: Katharine Gun faced jail for revealing US plans to bug UN delegates in the run-up to the war on Iraq. Now the ex-GCHQ worker insists we should cherish our whistleblowers, not punish them. The Observer [UK], September 19, 2004
• Asleep at the Wheel: Much of the truth about 9/11 is now public, thanks to the Commission's report: Key government officials failed the system, and they failed the American people. By Bill Moyers, September 10, 2004.
• A Failed Investigation, Washington Post, September 10, 2004
  "...congressional hearings yesterday confirmed two glaring gaps in the Bush administration's response to hundreds of cases of prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan."
• GOP Convention's Looney Tunes, by Robert Scheer, LA TIMES, September 7, 2004
• Spin can't hide the economic slide, by Thomas Oliphant, Boston Globe Columnist, September 7, 2004
• All the President's Spin, by Ben Fritz and Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan, AlterNet, September 7, 2004.
• Too Much Secrecy, Washington Post, August 28, 2004
• Report: Government Keeping More Secrets, by Jennifer C. Kerr, AP, August 26, 2004
• BushSecrecy.org
• Out of Spotlight, Bush Overhauls U.S. Regulations, by Joel Brinkley, New York Times, August 14, 2004
• CIA author gagged on intel reform, by Shaun Waterman, UPI, August 7th, 2004
• Secrecy order stymies claims of 9/11 blunder, The Age, July 7, 2004 US authorities have gagged an interpreter who claims intercepts were badly translated before September 11, reports Anne Kornblut in Washington.
• Bush and Ashcroft: A Pattern of Stonewalling (or Secrecy), by Gary D. Bass, Executive Director, OMB Watch, Published On: 06/18/2004 12:34 PM
• Foster: White House Had Role In Withholding Medicare Data: HHS Actuary Feels Bush Aide Put Hold on Medicare Data, by Amy Goldstein, Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, March 19, 2004
• Official Says He Was Told To Withhold Medicare Data, by Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, March 13, 2004
• Executive privilege seen as leak-case option: Shielding material is not ruled out; Democrats protest, by Wayne Washington, Globe Staff, 10/8/2003
• Bush Team Thumbs Its Nose at FOIA, by Timothy W. Maier, April 8, 2002
• Amnesty International Alleges Violations of International Law in U.S. Detention of Immigrants after 9/11 by Carl R. Baldwin, March 19, 2002
• EXECUTIVE ORDER 13233
  One of the first things George W. did when he took office was to seal by Executive Order presidential papers which would otherwise have been made available through the Freedom of Information Act...notably, those of his Father's administration which would include that and the Reagan administrations dealings with Saddam Hussein. (see also) and (see this also)
• Secrecy & Privilege, by Robert Parry
  Tracing investigative leads back through three decades, Secrecy & Privilege explores the mystery of how the two George Bushes rose to the pinnacle of American political power – and what the rise of their dynasty has meant to the nation’s democratic principles.

Historical Revisionism

• Saying U.N. backed war doesn't make it so, by Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers, September 28, 2004
• Seymour Hersh's alternative history of Bush's war: The crack investigative reporter tells Salon about a disastrous battle the U.S. brass hushed up, the frightening True Believers in the White House, and how Iran, not Israel, may have manipulated us into war. By Mary Jacoby, Salon.com, Sept. 18, 2004
• Rewriting The Record, by E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, September 10, 2004
• Amnesia in the Garden, by Maureen Dowd, New York Times, September 5, 2004
• Bush's Council of Economic Advisers re-writes economic history to blame Clinton for recession, by Michael J. Mandel, Business Week, Feb. 23, 2004
• Using Cyberspace to Rewrite History, how the Bush Administration counts on your short attention span and even shorter memory!