Scientists Accuse White House of Distorting Facts
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Scientists Say White House Questioned
Their Politics
Scientists Say White House Questioned
Their Politics
07/09/2004 03:00 AMIn a report released on Thursday, a scientific advocacy group cited
more instances of what it called the Bush administration's
manipulation of science to fit its policy goals.
White House Tries to Rein In Scientists
(Los Angeles Times)
White House Tries to Rein In Scientists
(Los Angeles Times)
06/26/2004 04:32 AMLos Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has
ordered that government scientists must be approved by a senior
political appointee before they can participate in meetings convened
by the World Health Organization, the leading international health and
science agency.
White House Downplayed the Risks of
Mercury in Proposed Rules, Scientists
Say
White House Downplayed the Risks of
Mercury in Proposed Rules, Scientists
Say
04/09/2004 03:55 PMWhite House staff members deleted or modified information on the toxic
effects of mercury when writing regulations for coal-fired power
plants, documents and e-mail messages show.
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."
Iraqis Accuse U.S. Troops of Theft in
House Raids
Iraqis Accuse U.S. Troops of Theft in
House Raids
05/25/2004 08:59 PMReuters via Wired News May 26 2004 1:10AM GMT
Scientists Say Administration Distorts
Facts
Scientists Say Administration Distorts
Facts
02/19/2004 12:11 AMMore than 60 influential scientists are asserting that the Bush
administration distorts scientific fact in the service of policy goals
on the environment, health and other areas.
"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 AMShould 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 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 AMThe 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?
"White House West"
"White House West"
07/29/2004 08:51 PMThe 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 ..
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"Designs on the White House"
"Designs on the White House"
07/02/2004 09:14 PMiPods 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.
"response from the White House"
"response from the White House"
05/12/2004 05:27 PMDesigns 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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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.
More 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.
Soldier 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 loosening up online
White House is loosening up online
04/17/2005 09:26 AMPhilly.com - Sun Apr 17, 09:32 am GMT
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 'tried to ban film'
White House 'tried to ban film'
05/16/2004 10:54 AMMichael Moore accuses the White House of trying to stop the making and
release of his new film.
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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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 PMReuters - 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.
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.)
White 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.
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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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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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.
Lawsuits against White House
stonewallers
Lawsuits against White House
stonewallers
06/24/2004 02:51 PMThe 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
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?
White 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.
"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 Is Less Certain Now About
Iraq's Arms
White House Is Less Certain Now About
Iraq's Arms
01/27/2004 06:42 AMThe 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.
The White House helped to block
The White House helped to block
07/22/2004 02:49 PMdemonstrates once again .. New York Times
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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 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
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.
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