Astroturf journalism at the White House

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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 PM
Dan 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."

"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 AM

Should the FCC be Under White House?

Should the FCC be Under White House? 08/27/2004 04:06 PM
Randoph 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.

Buying the White House

Buying the White House 05/15/2004 01:12 PM

Washington 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.

The White House that never sleeps

The White House that never sleeps 01/09/2004 10:11 PM
Ever wonder what happens on holidays and weekends when no one is paying attention?

iPods In the White House

iPods In the White House 04/13/2005 02:56 PM
The 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.

"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 04/24/2004 09:21 PM
T-shirt contest .. great idea .. DOTWHO?

designsonthewhitehouse.com
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The New Road to the White House

The New Road to the White House 10/31/2003 06:10 AM
The 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 PM
an additional two dozen pages .. reported

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More White House Rollbacks on 9/11

More White House Rollbacks on 9/11 04/10/2004 12:41 PM

NY 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.

"White House West"

"White House West" 07/29/2004 08:51 PM

"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 AM

"Designs on the White House"

"Designs on the White House" 07/02/2004 09:14 PM

The White House helped to block

The White House helped to block 07/22/2004 02:49 PM
demonstrates once again .. New York Times article

nytimes.com/2004/07/22/politics/22tax.html
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White House Web Scrubbing
(washingtonpost.com)

White House Web Scrubbing
(washingtonpost.com) 12/18/2003 08:39 PM

Soldier Described White House Interest

Soldier Described White House Interest 06/11/2004 03:38 AM
September 2003

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26814-2004Jun9.html
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White House Wants Saddam Tried as Soon
as Possible (Reuters)

White House Wants Saddam Tried as Soon
as Possible (Reuters) 06/23/2004 02:08 PM
Reuters - President Bush is under pressure from Republican allies to have Saddam Hussein put on trial swiftly, a move they hope might boost support for the Iraq war before the November presidential election.

White House yields to 9/11 panel

White House yields to 9/11 panel 11/14/2003 01:20 AM

news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/americas/32663 09.stm
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White House apologises for abuses

White House apologises for abuses 05/06/2004 12:08 AM
The White House apologises for abuses by US prison guards in Iraq after President Bush omits to do so.

White House is loosening up online

White House is loosening up online 04/17/2005 09:26 AM
Philly.com - Sun Apr 17, 09:32 am GMT

Lawsuits against White House
stonewallers

Lawsuits against White House
stonewallers 06/24/2004 02:51 PM
The Associated Press wonders why it had to resort to filing suits against the Pentagon and Air Force in order to obtain President Bush's military service records, especially since the White House says they've already turned them over.

AP General Counsel Dave Tomlin, told E&P [Editor & Publisher] the lawsuit is needed to get access to a portion of Bush's record that may offer more information than the paper files previously released. "The paper file may not be everything," he said. "It has been there a long while, it could conceivably be tampered with." Because the microfilm record has been in storage and "it can't be altered, that access to the microfilm would settle the matter," Tomlin added.

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Meanwhile, a watchdog group called Project on Government Oversight is suing Attorney General John Ashcroft for reclassifying certain documents pertaining to a translator who says she was bribed not to disclose information about a 9/11 coverup. (Reported previously in Boing Boing here and here) Link

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 &quot;Machine Gun Cheney&quot; 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 Is Less Certain Now About
Iraq's Arms

White House Is Less Certain Now About
Iraq's Arms 01/27/2004 06:42 AM
The White House began to back away from its assertions that Iraq had illegal weapons, saying it now wants to compare prewar intelligence with what may be actually found.

white house website to get more
bl0g-like?

white house website to get more
bl0g-like? 08/17/2004 03:10 PM
regardless of who's in there, it couldn't hurt

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 AM
The Bush administration is pushing to help the coal industry, which had been out of favor in Washington.

Dan Bartlett hosts Ask the White House

Dan Bartlett hosts Ask the White House 09/23/2004 07:23 AM
Ask the White House

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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." Link

White House Trumpets Programs It Tried
to Cut

White House Trumpets Programs It Tried
to Cut 05/18/2004 11:52 PM
Recent 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 'tried to ban film'

White House 'tried to ban film' 05/16/2004 10:54 AM
Michael Moore accuses the White House of trying to stop the making and release of his new film.

White House Is Trumpeting Programs It
Tried to Cut

White House Is Trumpeting Programs It
Tried to Cut 05/19/2004 01:26 AM
Recent grant announcements, many of them through programs the president had tried to cut, are blurring the line between official business and campaign-related activities.

Telrad and the Hacking of the White
House

Telrad and the Hacking of the White
House 09/02/2004 12:20 PM

Is 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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Instead of the White House Press, You
Envision What?

Instead of the White House Press, You
Envision What? 03/14/2005 04:35 PM
Play the discredited and de-certified themes out. If we fired the White House press and told them to seek other employment, what then?

"White House Is Trumpeting Programs It
Tried to Cut"

"White House Is Trumpeting Programs It
Tried to Cut" 05/20/2004 02:30 AM

"White House Says Iraq Sovereignty Could
Be Limited"

"White House Says Iraq Sovereignty Could
Be Limited" 04/26/2004 03:21 AM

recently revealed White House memos

recently revealed White House memos 06/09/2004 06:52 PM
Justice Department memo .. The memo is online

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Senators Press White House on CIA Chief
(AP)

Senators Press White House on CIA Chief
(AP) 07/11/2004 11:37 AM
AP - Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee urged the White House on Sunday to quickly nominate a CIA director, saying the country cannot wait until after the November election given the current terrorist threat.

White House: abuse memos not for
al-Qaida

White House: abuse memos not for
al-Qaida 06/09/2004 06:49 PM

Schumer Questions White House Over Leak
(AP)

Schumer Questions White House Over Leak
(AP) 08/09/2004 06:55 PM
AP - A Democratic senator asked the White House on Monday to explain why the name of an imprisoned al-Qaida terror suspect was disclosed to reporters even as the suspect was cooperating secretly by sending e-mails to terrorists so authorities could trace their locations.
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