In what's been called George W.
Bush's first exit interview, the outgoing President continues a lie
that he first unveiled several months after launching the Iraq War,
justifying the invasion by claiming that Saddam Hussein didn't let the
U.N. inspectors in.
Like previous times when President Bush has used this lie, it went
unchallenged by the journalist who heard the false claim, in this case
ABC News anchor Charles Gibson.
Since the Bush administration began transporting men and boys to Guantánamo Bay in January 2002, it has tried to prevent them from presenting their cases before a neutral federal judge. Indeed, the naval base was turned into a prison camp precisely to keep the detainees away from impartial courts. The government argued that federal courts had no jurisdiction over men detained on Cuban soil. Twice, the Supreme Court rejected that argument, finding that the United States exercises complete jurisdiction and control over the Guantánamo Bay base.
George Bush is working at a breakneck pace to dismantle at least 10
major environmental safeguards protecting America's wildlife, national
parks and rivers before he leaves office in January.
With barely
60 days to go until Bush hands over to Barack Obama, his White House is
working methodically to weaken or reverse an array of regulations that
protect America's wilderness from logging or mining operations, and
compel factory farms to clean up dangerous waste.
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has agreed to pay for a private
lawyer to defend former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales against
allegations that he encouraged officials to inject partisan politics
into the department's hiring and firing practices.
WASHINGTON, DC - The Bush
administration finalized regulations to govern the commercial
development of oil shale on federal lands on Monday, rebuffing concerns
that the rules are premature and ignoring the serious environmental
concerns about tapping the resource.
Administration officials said investors keen to unlock the nation's
vast oil shale resources need "rules of the road" even though the
technology is still not commercially viable.
A record number of felons are seeking presidential pardons or
commutations as President George W. Bush enters the final months of his
term, creating one of the largest backlogs in clemency applications in
recent history.
WASHINGTON - When a Congressional committee subpoenaed Harry S. Truman
in 1953, nearly a year after he left office, he made a startling claim:
Even though he was no longer president, the Constitution still
empowered him to block subpoenas.
"If the doctrine of
separation of powers and the independence of the presidency is to have
any validity at all, it must be equally applicable to a president after
his term of office has expired," Truman wrote to the committee.
