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U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have sufficient opportunities to challenge their confinement, the third round of high court review of the detentions. The measures s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 1:49pm neoform

Time -- Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:56pm neoform

Washington Post -- A White House privacy board is giving its stamp of approval to two of the Bush administration's controversial surveillance programs _ electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking _ and says they do not violate citizens' civil liberties. Democrats ne.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sun Feb 4, 2007 @ 1:12pm neoform

International Herald Tribune -- In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the government's reflexive answer to almost every problem... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 4:43pm neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 8:43am neoform

Washington Post -- The Bush administration yesterday proposed ending farm subsidies for an estimated 80,000 wealthy individuals as part of a broad plan that would close loopholes and cut traditional farm programs by $4.5 billion over the next 10 years... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 22, 2007 @ 2:53pm neoform

Associated Press -- The Bush administration is checking the accuracy of a watch list of suspected terrorists banned from traveling on airliners in the U.S. and will probably cut the list in half, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 14, 2006 @ 9:45am neoform

www.worldnetdaily.com -- A report scheduled to be released by the Treasury Department tomorrow is expected to show the true deficit in the Bush administration's 2006 federal budget to be an astounding $3.5 trillion in the red, not $248.2 billion as previously reported... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 5, 2006 @ 9:33am neoform

Washington Post -- The Bush administration is determined to continue "full speed ahead" with its policy in Iraq, regardless of Tuesday's midterm elections, Vice President Cheney said Friday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 11:16am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 6, 2007 @ 1:14pm neoform

New York Times -- Riding a ratings wave from “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” a program that takes strong issue with the Bush administration, MSNBC is increasingly seeking to showcase its nighttime lineup as a welcome haven for viewers of a similar mind. Lest there.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

Washington Post -- How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion. That's how much seven federal departments spent from 2003 through the second quarter of 2005 on 343 contracts with public relations firms, advertising agencies, media organiz.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration has shown little progress — and in some cases backtracked — on its pledge to do a better job in awarding contracts to small, Gulf Coast businesses for Hurricane Katrina work, a congressional analysis shows. The review of fed.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:39pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Supreme Court yesterday reversed itself and agreed to consider whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been unfairly barred from the federal courts by the Bush administration and Congress, a move that may finally determine legal rights for foreign-bo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 10:03pm neoform

FOX News -- The Food and Drug Administration will require tougher warnings about heart failure on the diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos, FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach said at a congressional hearing Wednesday. Von Eschenbach revealed that the FDA is orderi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 20, 2007 @ 1:45pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday rebuilding New Orleans is an "American obligation" the Bush administration has not met since Hurricane Katrina struck. "If talk, bureaucracy and promises were enough, we would've rebuilt New Orleans three times over.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 4:09pm mrmdc

Washington Post -- The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the world's most recognizable animals out of exis.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 5, 2006 @ 4:48pm neoform

CNN -- A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the agency's closely guarded interrogation techniques... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 4, 2006 @ 11:45pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A leading conservative proponent of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq now says dysfunction within the Bush administration has turned U.S. policy there into a disaster... Read More