Name |
Forums |
Charges against Bush & Co. |
Corroboration |
Bush attack |
Impact |
Richard Clarke,
counter-terrorism
czar under Clinton
and Bush |
Against All Enemies
60 Minutes
911 Commission - under oath |
1. Bush downgraded anti-terrorism efforts in 2001
2. Administration ignored his urgent plan until 9/4/01
3. Iraq was Bush's priority from outset
4. Iraq war undermined war against terrorism |
Documents
Few meetings
Henry Shelton
Donald Kerrick
Brian Sheridan
Paul O'Neill
Anthony Zinni
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Led by Condi, Cheney
Out of the loop
Disgruntled
Selling book
Praised Bush in 2002 |
Bush attack backfired
Viewed as national hero |
Paul O'Neill
Treasury
Secretary |
The Price of Loyalty
60 Minutes |
1. Bush is "a blind man in a room full of deaf people" - clueless and uncurious
2. Bush planned Iraq war from outset
3. Bush was clueless about his tax giveaways to the rich |
Richard Clarke |
Crazy
Investigated
for stealing documents |
Softened his language, but stuck to his facts |
Joseph Wilson |
NY Times |
Bush's SOTU claim about Iraq seeking uranium from Niger was a hoax |
CIA |
"Outed" Wilson's wife, CIA agent Valerie Plame |
Justice Dept. investigation could indict Karl Rove or Lewis Libby |
Larry Lindsey
Economic adviser |
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Iraq war would cost $200 billion |
$166 billion in
1st year alone |
Fired |
Bush's request for $87 billion enraged taxpayers |
Gen. Eric Shinseki, Army chief of staff |
Congress |
Iraq occupation could require 200,000 troops |
150,000 deployed |
Attacked by Wolfowitz |
Awakened Americans to burden of occupation |
Anthony Zinni
Mideast envoy |
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Iraq war would hurt Mideast policy |
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Fired |
Bush's "roadmap" to mideast peace is dead |
Karen Kwiatowsky
Pentagon |
Salon |
Pentagon neo-cons manufactured bogus Iraq intelligence |
Washington Post
Mother Jones
New Yorker |
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Sibel Edmonds, FBI wiretap translator |
60 Minutes
911 Commission |
US had plenty of warnings pre-911 |
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Jesselyn Radack, Justice Dept. |
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Whistleblower on FBI's denial of family lawyer to John Walker Lindh |
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Pushed out of her job, subjected to criminal investigation, career destroyed |
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John DiIulio
Faith-Based
Initiatives |
Esquire |
All policy made by Karl Rove for politics only |
Common knowledge |
A lie |
Silenced by White House, but charges stuck |
Richard Foster
Medicare actuary |
Tried to tell Congress |
Administration lied to Congress by underestimating Medicare drug plan cost by $150 billion |
Documents |
Threatened with firing |
Congressional investigation |
Jack Spadaro |
60 Minutes |
Administration coverup of largest toxic spill in history by Massey Energy, a major GOP donor |
Documents |
Reassigned - is suing |
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Jessica Lynch |
Diane Sawyer |
Pentagon made up story of Iraqi abuse and heroic rescue |
Lynch
Iraqi doctors |
Vilified by right
Topless photos |
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Bill Burkett,
Texas National Guard |
Bush's War for Re-election |
Bush's military records were scrubbed |
Missing documents |
A lie |
Truth still unknown
Helped re-open AWOL issue |
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