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"Rep. Porter Goss said Thursday that the
uproar over allegations that White House
officials purposely identified a covert
CIA agent appears largely political and
doesn't yet merit an investigation by
the House Select Committee on
Intelligence, which he..."
"Rep. Porter Goss said Thursday that the
uproar over allegations that White House
officials purposely identified a covert
CIA agent appears largely political and
doesn't yet merit an investigation by
the House Select Committee on
Intelligence, which he..."
08/12/2004 02:13 AMWhite House Considers Disclosing
Intelligence Budgets
White House Considers Disclosing
Intelligence Budgets
07/29/2004 11:55 AMThe move, a recommendation of the 9/11 panel that faces strong
resistance from the C.I.A., can be made without Congress.
White House to Review Prewar
Intelligence on Iraqi Arms
White House to Review Prewar
Intelligence on Iraqi Arms
01/26/2004 07:35 PMThe decision came after the outgoing chief U.S. weapons inspector said
that he was almost certain that Iraq had no significant banned
weaponry before the war.
Senate Iraq Report Said to Skirt White
House Use of Intelligence
Senate Iraq Report Said to Skirt White
House Use of Intelligence
07/07/2004 09:03 PMThe report will sidestep the question of how the Bush administration
used prewar intelligence on Iraq to make the case for war.
"White House Faulted on Uranium Claim:
Intelligence Warnings Disregarded,
President's Advisory Board Says"
"White House Faulted on Uranium Claim:
Intelligence Warnings Disregarded,
President's Advisory Board Says"
12/24/2003 09:20 PMWhite House Plans to Release
Interrogation Documents Today
White House Plans to Release
Interrogation Documents Today
06/22/2004 01:49 PMThe White House fears a growing perception that the administration
authorized torture as an interrogation technique.
Did the White House release forged
documents about Bush's service record?
Did the White House release forged
documents about Bush's service record?
09/09/2004 04:24 PM
Mark Frauenfelder:
Charles at Little Green Footballs presents a persuasive argument that
the memos recently released by the White House about President Bush's
National Guard service are forgeries.
I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft’s
Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date
“18 August 1973,” then typed the rest of the document
purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel
Jerry B. Killian.
And my Microsoft Word version, typed in 2004, is an exact match for
the documents trumpeted by CBS News as “authentic.” The
spacing is not just similar—it is identical in every respect.
(Background: CNN reported that "the White House, without comment, released to the
news media two of the memos, one ordering Bush to report for his
physical exam and the other suspending him from flight status."
Here are PDF
copiesof the memos the White House released.)
I think the documents are indeed forgeries, but who made them?
Could it be a White House dirty trick to make the Democrats look bad?
Are there real documents that these forgeries are based on that are
even more damning about the President's behavior? I'm sure there's
more news to come.
Link (Thanks, Bob!)
UPDATE: Eric sez: If you weren't
reflexively looking for the interpretation of events
that reflected most poorly on Bush, you might have noted that the
White House did not release those records, they merely passed along
without comment copies that had been sent to them by CBS.
UPDATE:David sez: "Saw your post on this
on BoingBoing. Fark.com had a couple big discussions
today about the potential forgeries
(here
and
here
).
Someone
posted the two images (White House released and Word generated), so
I fired up an image editor and had a look. While the font character
spacing
are very similar, most typography experts in the threads agreed that
the
original had type-write like characteristics (number 8 slightly high
on the
line, etc.) that would be hard to reproduce in Word. More
importantly, the
superscript "th" which caused most of the interest is not in the same
position in the two images (see attached superimposed comparison).
It's possible that the original was generated on a typewriter with
a
proportional width Times New Roman font wheel or ball (available at
the
time), with the same common margin settings as Word uses by default.
The
superscript used in Word is artificially generated (smaller font size,
elevated baseline), whereas the typewritter superscript "th" would
need to
be carved in the same space as other characters, which is why it
appears
lower.
David Schwab
To Liberate From the White House the
White House Press
To Liberate From the White House the
White House Press
03/14/2005 04:35 PMDan Weintraub, who covers politics at the Sacramento Bee, wants "an
aggressive, curious and analytical press corps, based anywhere
(including cyberspace), fact-checking the snot out of the White House
and writing critically about the president's statements, proposals and
actions."
The CIA Agent Flap: FBI Asks for
Reporters to Talk. White House Asked to
Release Reporters from Confidentiality
Understanding About WH Treasongate Leak
The CIA Agent Flap: FBI Asks for
Reporters to Talk. White House Asked to
Release Reporters from Confidentiality
Understanding About WH Treasongate Leak
01/03/2004 08:18 AMthis is something .. Time Magazine ..
Time
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TalkLeft: TalkLeft Reinstated By Paypal
TalkLeft: TalkLeft Reinstated By Paypal
09/25/2004 11:59 AMJeralyn Merritt .. bloggers ..
TalkLeft
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Should the FCC be Under White House?
Should the FCC be Under White House?
08/27/2004 04:06 PMRandoph May at the Progress & Freedom Foundation says
it should.
The agency certainly isn't very accountable in its present form. This
might help make it more accountable.
The New Road to the White House
The New Road to the White House
10/31/2003 06:10 AMThe blog may be the first innovation from the Internet to make a real
difference in election politics. But to see just why requires a bit of
careful attention. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.
the White House isn't dodging this one
the White House isn't dodging this one
09/09/2004 04:40 PMan additional two dozen pages ..
reported
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The White House that never sleeps
The White House that never sleeps
01/09/2004 10:11 PMEver wonder what happens on holidays and weekends when no one is
paying attention?
Buying the White House
Buying the White House
05/15/2004 01:12 PMWashington Post: The Bush Money Machine: Building War Chest With Few
Restraints. As Bush "Pioneers" who had raised at least $100,000
each for the president's reelection campaign, or "Rangers" who had
raised $200,000 each, the men and women who shot skeet with Cheney,
played golf with pros Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller and laughed at
the jokes of comedian Dennis Miller are the heart of the most
successful political money operation in the nation's history. Since
1998, Bush has raised a record $296.3 million in campaign funds,
giving him an overwhelming advantage in running against Vice President
Al Gore and now Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.). At least a third of the
total -- many sources believe more than half -- was raised by 631
people.
It's actually a tiny amount of money when
you consider the return on investment -- notably the hundreds of
billions in tax breaks for the wealthiest Americas while moving the
tax burden to those who actually work for a living, not to mention the
undermining of environmental and worker-safety programs.
Designs on the White House
Designs on the White House
04/24/2004 09:21 PMT-shirt contest .. great idea ..
DOTWHO?
designsonthewhitehouse.com
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"response from the White House"
"response from the White House"
05/12/2004 05:27 PM"Designs on the White House"
"Designs on the White House"
07/02/2004 09:14 PM"White House West"
"White House West"
07/29/2004 08:51 PMMore White House Rollbacks on 9/11
More White House Rollbacks on 9/11
04/10/2004 12:41 PMNY Times: Bush
Was Warned of Possible Attack in U.S., Official Says. The
disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions
that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was
"historical" in nature and that the White House had little reason to
suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.
The
attacks were probably unpreventable, but it would be helpful if the
Bush administration would tell the truth about what it knew, and
when.
iPods In the White House
iPods In the White House
04/13/2005 02:56 PMThe
co
ntents of U.S. President George W. Bush's iPod were recently leaked by
a White House aide. Many people speculate that someone's musical
tastes provide an insight to their personality. So what's the verdict
on W based on the Presidential iPod playlists?
It's official, the President jams like the rest of us.
"the White House was merely using the
same copies as CBS "
"the White House was merely using the
same copies as CBS "
09/10/2004 03:47 AMSoldier Described White House Interest
Soldier Described White House Interest
06/11/2004 03:38 AMSeptember
2003
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26814-2004Jun9.html
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"White House Is Trumpeting Programs It
Tried to Cut"
"White House Is Trumpeting Programs It
Tried to Cut"
05/20/2004 02:30 AMWhite House apologises for abuses
White House apologises for abuses
05/06/2004 12:08 AMThe White House apologises for abuses by US prison guards in Iraq
after President Bush omits to do so.
Astroturf journalism at the White House
Astroturf journalism at the White House
02/05/2005 10:19 PMPresident Bush has
relied on a
ringer in recent press conferences: This guy named
Jeff Gannon from a right-wing
news site called
"Talon News"
spouts the GOP party line and lobs softball questions at the prez that
repeat his own press releases.
Metafilter and
Salon's War Room have
more.
This is the dark side of the "now everyone's a journalist"
blogosphere meme, a concept that for the most part I think is
positive. But once anyone can set up as a journalist, public figures
can summon astroturf reporters to do their bidding, and officials can
"paper the house" with sympathizers the way theater producers have
always done on opening night. (This reminds me of what happened in
movie criticism in the '80s and '90s, as a variety of bozos went into
the business of providing movie "reviews" to borderline media outlets
with the sole purpose of giving the movie marketers a bottomless well
of positive quotes.)
The only answer, I suppose, is to say to the White House press
office, hey, if your bloggers and guys-with-Web-sites get to ask
questions at press conferences, the other side's should, too. Get Kos
and Atrios and Tom Tomorrow in there! Mix it up! (No way, I know.)
Designs on the White House -- update
Designs on the White House -- update
07/02/2004 01:11 PM
Following up on
this previous BoingBoing post, reader
ME-L says, "The contest is over and the winners are on sale! Net
proceeds go to the Kerry campaign. Winning shirts include: "I Was The
Victim of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and All I Got Was This Lousy
President," "Democracy is Not a Faith-Based Initiative" and "One
Nation Under Surveillance."
LinkWhite House is loosening up online
White House is loosening up online
04/17/2005 09:26 AMPhilly.com - Sun Apr 17, 09:32 am GMT
A leash to shake the White House ?
A leash to shake the White House ?
05/06/2004 01:03 PM
"Pull out, pull out", she cried, "Before
it's too late!" - Sex sells. Amidst the ongoing PR conflagration -
as
newly released imagery of the psychosexual humiliation, by US
guards at Abu Ghraib, of imprisoned Iraqis (
a naked Iraqi man on a leash held by a female American soldier,
notably) provokes widespread outrage (and the
Red Cross says things
are much worse than those pictures show), the BBC reports on
informed speculation that the perfect storm of a growing insurgency,
political reversals, and a PR debacle will lead to a hasty coalition
pullout from Iraq. A frustrated and tense
"Machine Gun
Cheney" achieves release, via his wheelbarrel load of 30
guns (including a Thompson), blasting away at a Secret Service gun
range. His aim, they say, is very good. But will Cheney bite the
bullet and level with the American public about what it will now take
for the US to
prevail in Iraq ? White House yields to 9/11 panel
White House yields to 9/11 panel
11/14/2003 01:20 AMnews.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/americas/32663
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White House Trumpets Programs It Tried
to Cut
White House Trumpets Programs It Tried
to Cut
05/18/2004 11:52 PMRecent grant announcements, many of them through programs the
president had tried to cut, are blurring the line between official
business and campaign-related activities.
White House Web Scrubbing
(washingtonpost.com)
White House Web Scrubbing
(washingtonpost.com)
12/18/2003 08:39 PMWhite House Is Trumpeting Programs It
Tried to Cut
White House Is Trumpeting Programs It
Tried to Cut
05/19/2004 01:26 AMRecent grant announcements, many of them through programs the
president had tried to cut, are blurring the line between official
business and campaign-related activities.
Friends in the White House Come to
Coal's Aid
Friends in the White House Come to
Coal's Aid
08/09/2004 12:19 AMThe Bush administration is pushing to help the coal industry, which
had been out of favor in Washington.
Telrad and the Hacking of the White
House
Telrad and the Hacking of the White
House
09/02/2004 12:20 PMIs
raeli spies tapped Clinton e-mail: This is a very old story (and a
reprint of a dead link at a British newspaper), but one that the spy
junkie in me just finds fascinating.
Apparently, in the late nineties, Israel had — get this
— a direct connection into the email of the President of the
United States. They could essentially read Clinton's emails (oh, wait
— he didn't send any...)
Sources in Israel say intelligence agents infiltrated Telrad, a
company that had been subcontracted by Nortel, America's largest
telecommunications conglomerate, to help develop a communications
system for the White House.
Company managers were said to have been unaware that virtually
undetectable chips installed during manufacture made it possible for
outside agents to tap into the flow of data from the White House.
Information being sent from the president to his senior staff in
the National Security Council and outside government departments could
be copied into a secret Israeli computer in Washington, the sources
said. It was transferred to Tel Aviv two or three times a week.
Does anyone know how this all ended up? The sheer brazeness of
something like this just kills me. I mean, that takes guts —
installing a hardware backdoor into the White House communications
system.
And talk about removing the sysadmins from the equation. If your
hardware vendor has installed a backdoor at the physical, hardware
level, what are you supposed to do? How can you defend against that?
Related to that, I'm curious as to how the data got out of the
network — it had to be transmitted somehow, and could it have
been detected leaving the network?
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The White House helped to block
The White House helped to block
07/22/2004 02:49 PMdemonstrates once again .. New York Times
article
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white house website to get more
bl0g-like?
white house website to get more
bl0g-like?
08/17/2004 03:10 PMregardless of who's in there, it couldn't hurt
Instead of the White House Press, You
Envision What?
Instead of the White House Press, You
Envision What?
03/14/2005 04:35 PMPlay the discredited and de-certified themes out. If we fired the
White House press and told them to seek other employment, what then?
Dan Bartlett hosts Ask the White House
Dan Bartlett hosts Ask the White House
09/23/2004 07:23 AMAsk the White House
whitehouse.gov/ask/20040921.html
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