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  • Did Karl Rove Lie to the FBI?
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Did Karl Rove Lie to the FBI?
    By Jason Leopold
    Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison.
    It now appears that Rove, President Bush’s chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003-a federal crime-when he was questioned by federal agents who were investigating the source responsible for leaking the true identity of an undercover CIA operative to the media.
    During questioning by the FBI about his (…)

  • Report Shows Karl Rove May Have Lied to Federal Agents, a Federal Crime, During Oct 2003 Testimony Into CIA Agent Leak
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Report Shows Karl Rove May Have Lied to Federal Agents, a Federal Crime, During Oct 2003 Testimony Into CIA Agent Leak
    By Jason Leopold
    Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison.
    It now appears that Rove, President Bush’s chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003-a federal crime-when he was questioned by federal agents investigating who was responsible for leaking information about a covert CIA (…)

  • Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    The audacity inside the Bush administration never ceases to amaze.
    The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that controls the country’s natural gas industry, hydroelectric projects, electric utilities, and oil pipelines and has played a critical role in the deregulation of (…)

  • BP Faces Huge Fines Related To Unreported Oil Spills in Alaska; Is ANWR Next?
    16 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    While the hacks working for mainstream news organizations were busy chasing the story about the Runaway Bride late last month, a real scandal was just beginning to unfold as Congress inched closer to approving a controversial measure to open up a couple thousand acres of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
    It was then, unbeknownst to the federal lawmakers who debated the merits of drilling in ANWR, that the Alaska Department of Environmental (…)

  • Bush’s Choice for Energy Secretary Was One of Texas’ Top Five Worst Polluters
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    In the bizarro world that President Bush lives in, it pays-literally-to be a miserable failure, a criminal and a corporate con man. Those are just some of the characteristics of the dastardly men and women who were tapped recently to fill the vacancies in Bush’s second-term cabinet.
    But one of the President’s most outrageous decisions (besides naming Alberto Gonzales, who concocted a legal case for torturing foreign prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Attorney (…)

  • Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance...
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance, and Corporate Scandal
    by Jason Leopold
    Off the Record is the story of the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance told by Jason Leopold, who survived a life of drug abuse and petty crime and went on to become one of the most highly regarded investigative reporters of the last few years, uncovering some of the biggest scandals of corporate America, the office of the governor of (…)

  • How Rummy’s Failed War Plan Caused the Loss of More Than 1,000 US Soldiers in Iraq
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    In October 2002, the New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered the military’s regional commanders to rewrite all of their war plans to capitalize on precision weapons, better intelligence and speedier deployment in the event the United States decided to invade Iraq, ignoring concerns from career military officials that American military forces will suffer a huge number of casualties under Rumsfeld’s plan.
    Rumsfeld denied, in an Oct. 12, (…)

  • Sinclair Broadcasting’s Long History of Journalistic and Corporate Deception
    20 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Sinclair Broadcasting Group has tried to influence the outcome of elections long before the media company became a lightning rod for criticism due to its decision to air a controversial documentary ten days before the Nov. 2 election critical of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry’s activities during the Vietnam War.
    Two years ago, Duncan Smith, vice president of Sinclair, gave then Maryland GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert Ehrlich extensive use of a luxury (…)

  • Under Cheney, Halliburton Helped Saddam Hussein Siphon Billions from UN Oil-for-Food Program
    12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    When the Iraqi Survey Group released its long awaited report last week that said Iraq eliminated its weapons programs in the 1990s, President George W. Bush quickly changed his stance on reasons he authorized an invasion of Iraq. While he campaigned for a second term in office, Bush justified the war by saying that that Saddam Hussein was manipulating the United Nation’s oil-for-food program, siphoning off billions of dollars from the venture that he intended to use to (…)

  • Is There Still Time to Impeach the President before Nov. 2?
    9 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    John Dean, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon, made a case last year for impeaching President George W. Bush if the president intentionally misled Congress and the public into backing a war with Iraq.
    "To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked," Dean wrote in a June 6, 2003 column for findlaw.com. "Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be (…)