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Leopold: Senate Report Details Torture Policy Origins
Znet Article, April, 22 2009
Jason Leopold
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The seeds for the Bush administration's policy of torture were planted in December 2001, nearly a year before the Justice Department issued its first legal opinion that authorized CIA interrogators to torture "war on terror" prisoners, and the cre...
Leopold: CIA Has 3,000 Docs on Torture Tapes
Znet Article, March, 24 2009
Jason Leopold
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The CIA has about 3,000 documents related to the 92 destroyed videotapes that showed “war on terror†detainees being subjected to harsh interrogations, the Justice Department has disclosed, suggesting an extensive back-and-forth between CIA fi...
Leopold: Bush Administration Engaged in a Conscious Policy of Torture
Znet Article, March, 20 2009
Jason Leopold
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As more pieces of a very ugly mosaic fall into place – including new details from a confidential 2007 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross about interrogations at CIA “black sites†– any remaining doubt that the Bush admi...
Leopold: DOJ Watchdog Still Probing Yoo/Bybee Torture Memo
Znet Article, January, 18 2009
Jason Leopold
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For more than four years, the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility has been investigating the origins of an Aug. 1, 2002 memo that provided the Bush administration with the legal guidance to authorize interrogators to use b...
Leopold: Conyers: Bush/Cheney 'Most Impeachable'
Znet Article, January, 15 2009
Jason Leopold
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers says President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney committed impeachment-worthy offenses which must be thoroughly investigated even after the two men leave office as a means of reaffirming ...
Leopold: Bush Spins Scandalous Neglect of Vets
Znet Article, January, 11 2009
Jason Leopold
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It’s not uncommon for Presidents to embellish their accomplishments upon leaving office, but George W. Bush, who will exit the White House leaving the country in the worst shape since Herbert Hoover, has gone a step further, moving past exaggera...
Leopold: Cheney Admits He 'Signed Off' on Waterboarding of Three Guantanamo Prisoners
Znet Article, December, 28 2008
Jason Leopold
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Cheney's admission during an interview with the Washington Times this week about his role in approving the waterboarding of three Guantanamo detainees and the so-called "enhanced interrogation" of 33 prisoners was, disturbingly, not covered at all...
Leopold: CIA Warned Condi on Niger Claim
Znet Article, December, 21 2008
Jason Leopold
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A high-ranking CIA official warned Condoleezza Rice in September 2002 that allegations about Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger were untrue and that she, as national security adviser, should stop President George W. Bush from citing the cl...
Leopold: Cheney Admits Detainee-Abuse Role
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Jason Leopold
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Vice President Dick Cheney said for the first time Monday that he helped get the “process cleared†for the brutal interrogation program of suspected terrorists.
Leopold: ‘Culture of Dishonesty' At Department of Veterans Affairs
Znet Article, November, 27 2008
Jason Leopold
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The economic meltdown that has dominated media coverage over the past several months has overshadowed a crisis at the Department of Veterans Affairs, an agency in dire need of new leadership, veterans groups and Democratic lawmakers say.
Leopold: Obama: 'New Mission in Iraq: Ending the War'
Znet Article, November, 11 2008
Jason Leopold
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President-elect Barack Obama, in one of the first policy statements of his transition, demanded that the Bush administration either submit the proposed U.S.-Iraq “status-of-forces agreement” to Congress or leave an opening for him to change it nex...
Leopold: DOJ's Internal Watchdogs Probing Leak of ACORN Investigation
Znet Article, November, 02 2008
Jason Leopold
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The Department of Justice’s internal watchdogs are investigating who told the Associated Press that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a grassroots group that has registered hundreds of thousands of new voters, is u...
Leopold: New Mexico GOP Lawyer’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Claims Unravels
Znet Article, October, 26 2008
Jason Leopold
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Last week, the New Mexico Republican Party publicly wrongfully claimed that 28 people cast fraudulent votes in the June Democratic primary in House District 13. State Republican Party officials said a review of 92 newly registered voters in the di...
Leopold: 5 Years After Blackout, Power Grid Still in 'Dire Straits'
Znet Article, August, 09 2008
Jason Leopold
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Five years ago this month, a devastating blackout rippled through the Northeastern United States. The blackout plunged more than 50 million people into darkness for nearly three days and left a gaping $10 billion hole in the nation’s economy.
Leopold: Reasons to Oppose Drilling in ANWR Found in Alaska's North Slope
Znet Article, July, 25 2008
Jason Leopold
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Last November, the oil company British Petroleum (BP) plead guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a $20 million fine for violating the Clean Water Act related to a massive oil spill that occurred at BP’s Prudhoe Bay operations in Alaska’s North Slope t...
Leopold: Top Pentagon Officials Developed Brutal Interrogation Methods at Guantanamo
Znet Article, June, 18 2008
Jason Leopold
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Top Pentagon officials developed the harsh interrogation methods used against detainees at Guantanamo less than a month before the Justice Department issued two now repudiated memorandums that gave interrogators legal cover to employ the tactics, ...
Leopold: Kucinich Vows New Round of Impeachment Articles Against Bush If Measure Dies
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Jason Leopold
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Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Congressman and former 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate, said he would continue to introduce resolutions calling for the removal of President George W. Bush from office if the articles of impeachment against Bush th...
Leopold: Torture Policies Undermine 9/11 Case
Znet Article, May, 15 2008
Jason Leopold
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The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks, again underscores the consequences of the Bush administration’s descent into torture and other abusive treatment of “w...
Leopold: Bush Operative Pushes Voter-ID Law
Znet Article, May, 14 2008
Jason Leopold
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A senior legal adviser to the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign is working behind the scenes to help enact a Missouri state constitutional amendment that critics say would suppress the vote in the key battleground state this November by requiri...
Leopold: VA Debated PR Plan on Vets' Suicides
Znet Article, April, 23 2008
Jason Leopold
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Senior officials at the Veterans Administration debated internally how to downplay evidence of a stunning number of suicides and suicide attempts among veterans who were treated or had sought help at VA hospitals around the country, according to n...
