| August 12, 2008 | - The musical designer for the Beijing
Olympics admitted that Lin Miaoke, the nine-year-old Chinese schoolgirl who, suspended on wires, performed “Hymn to the Motherland” at the games' opening ceremony, lip-synched the song after Chinese officials decided that the actual singer, seven-year-old Yang Peiyi, was too ugly and buck-toothed to perform before billions.
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Telegraph
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| July 10, 2008 | -
Iran released photos of a missile test that had been doctored to make it look as if four missiles were being launched instead of three.
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NYTimes
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| September 28, 2007 | - President George W. Bush skipped all events related to the U.N. discussions on global warming, except for dinner, because he was holding his own summit later in the week; reporters covering the Bush conference received a pocket-sized handout aimed at dispelling “myths” about the administration's environmental policy, including the myths that Bush refuses to admit that humans are a factor in climate change, or that climate change is real.
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New York Times
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Associated Press
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| September 26, 2007 | - A February 2003 transcript of a meeting between Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar surfaced showing that Bush had knowledge that Saddam Hussein was prepared to go into exile. In the transcript, Bush complained about former French President Jacques Chirac, who “thinks he's Mr. Arab,” and the European attitude toward Hussein. “Maybe it's because he's dark-skinned, far away and Muslim,” said the President, “lots of Europeans think everything's okay with him.”
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 16, 2007 | - A new British poll estimated that 1.2 million people had died so far in the war, and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan wished that politicians would admit that the war was “largely about
oil.”
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Times
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Guardian
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| July 26, 2007 | - A men-versus-machine
poker match showed humans to be the superior bluffers.
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New York Times
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| May 15, 2007 | -
Paul Wolfowitz announced that he would resign as president of the World Bank on June 30; the Bank in turn said that it accepted Wolfowitz's assurances that he had acted “in good faith” when he oversaw a promotion for his girlfriend Shaha Riza.
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Fin24
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MSNBC
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The Guardian
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| March 21, 2007 | - To test the integrity of ten local hospitals, journalists in Hangzhou, China, replaced their urine samples with tea; six of the hospitals diagnosed the reporters with urinary tract infections.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Lifestyle
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| January 25, 2007 | - The perjury trial of former vice-presidential aide I. Scooter Libby began. Cathie Martin, former communications director for Vice President Dick Cheney, testified that the government often releases bad news late on Friday. “Fewer people pay attention to it,” she explained. CIA official Craig Schmall testified that Libby had met with Tom Cruise to discuss the treatment of Scientologists in Germany. Libby “was a little excited about it,” he recalled; Schmall said that he too had been excited.
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Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| November 17, 2006 | - It was reported that a Brazilian
cat named Mimi had mated with a dog and birthed hybrid kitten-pups.
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Reuters
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| November 16, 2006 | - The Department of Health and Human Services refused to ensure that its reports on abstinence for young people were factually and scientifically accurate.
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TPM muckracker
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| November 11, 2006 | - In Beit Hanun, Gaza, Israeli forces accidentally killed 18 civilians, including seven children; Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described the killings as a “technical failure.” The U.N. Security Council drafted a resolution condemning the attack, but the United States, represented by Ambassador John Bolton, vetoed it.
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The Jerusalem Post
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BBC News
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| October 24, 2006 | - The American Association of Trial Attorneys announced it would change its name to the American Association for Justice.
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New York Times
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| October 18, 2006 | - During a debate with his Democratic rival, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana said that President Bush (who this week compared Iraq to Vietnam) has a secret plan for winning the war, but that Bush is not going to share his plan with the world.
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Billings Gazette
Source 2:
FT
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| September 22, 2006 | -
Bill and Hillary Clinton both agreed that they were “sick of Karl Rove's bullshit.”
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The Examiner via the Drudge Report
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| September 19, 2006 | -
Hungarian prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted that his campaign was based on lies. “We lied in the morning,” said Gyurcsany. “We lied in the evening.”
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New York times
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| August 29, 2006 | -
President Bush, visiting hurricane-damaged New Orleans, spoke optimistically of the rebuilding effort. “There will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered,” said Bush. “Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses.”
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New York Times
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| August 24, 2006 | - An English woman capable of climaxing forty times per day was convicted of benefit fraud.
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The Times of London
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| July 17, 2006 | - Advisers at federally funded “pregnancy resource centers” were telling women that abortions increase the risk of cancer, infertility, and mental illness.
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Reuters via Yahoo News
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| July 5, 2006 | - “I'm going to make you this promise,” President George W. Bush
told a crowd of soldiers in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, “I'm not going to allow the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain by pulling out before the job is done.”
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New York Times
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| June 22, 2006 | -
AT&T revised its privacy guidelines, removing a stated promise not to “access, read, upload or store data contained in or derived from private files.”
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CNN
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| June 17, 2006 | - The Israeli military absolved itself of responsibility for the deaths of seven members of the picnicking Ghalia family from explosions on a beach in Gaza. An Israeli committee admitted that Israeli forces fired six shells on and around the beach, but found that a mine planted by Hamas (or possibly a buried shell) had, by coincidence, exploded and killed the family at around the same time as the shelling. A former Pentagon battlefield analyst said that the shrapnel and craters he found at the scene of the explosion were consistent with shelling by Israelis, as were the wounds suffered by survivors.
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The Guardian
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| April 22, 2006 | - The National Counterterrorism Center announced that there had been over 10,000 terrorist incidents worldwide in 2005 but noted that, because the study methodology had changed, this should not be seen as an increase over the 3,192 terrorist incidents of 2004. “Technically,” said a State Department spokesman, “you could say that there might be a larger number of incidents from one year to another, but it’s comparing apples and oranges.”
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MSNBC
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| February 9, 2006 | - Author Michael Crichton received a journalism award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for his novel State of Fear, which criticizes the theory of global warming. "It is fiction," said a spokesman for the petroleum geologists, "but it has the absolute ring of truth."
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The New York Times
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| January 31, 2006 | - During the State of the Union address President Bush announced that America is "addicted to oil" and vowed to replace "more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025." Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said that this promise was not meant to be taken literally. "This," he said, "was purely an example."
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The White House
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Knight Ridder
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| January 31, 2006 | -
ExxonMobil announced that it had a $36.1 billion profit in 2005, more than any company in any year ever, then announced that its profits were actually moderate. Royal Dutch Shell also reported record profits.
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The Seattle Times
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BBC News
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| January 18, 2006 | - A two-year, $939,233 study commissioned by the U.S. Justice Department found that inmates who claim to have been raped in prison are usually lying. In prison, the study explained, sexual pressure is not seen as coercion; rather, "sexual pressure ushers, guides, or shepherds the process of sexual awakening."
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Chron.com
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| December 7, 2005 | - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld criticized the media in a speech, claiming that news is “reported and spread around the world, often with little context and little scrutiny, let alone correction or accountability after the fact.”
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Reuters
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| October 31, 2005 | -
U.S. aircraft dropped explosives on a house in Iraq near the Syrian border, hoping to kill an Al Qaeda leader. An Iraqi doctor estimated 40 civilians were killed and 20 wounded in the precision bombing. "There are no insurgents in this area," said a tribal leader.
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Reuters
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| October 24, 2005 | - It was reported that in 2003 Senator
Bill Frist was told (in writing) that a significant amount of HCA, Inc., stock had been added to his blind trust; two weeks later he said he did not believe that he owned any stock in HCA. "I have no control," said Frist. "He could have been more exact," explained Frist's spokesman.
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The Washington Post
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| July 28, 2005 | -
Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al Jaafari called for the prompt withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country; General George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that troop withdrawal could begin by spring 2006 “if the political process continues to go positively.”
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Democracy Now
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| July 18, 2005 | - It became clear that Karl Rove had leaked information about Valerie Plame to the press. In response, President George W. Bush, who had previously announced that he would fire anyone in his administration who was found to have leaked Plame's identity, announced that he would actually fire only proven criminals. "I don't know all the facts," said Bush.
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The New York Times
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| July 13, 2005 | - The twelfth major U.S. investigation into Guantánamo Bay found that forcing an inmate to behave like a dog was not inhumane.
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Bloomberg News
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| May 31, 2005 | - President George W. Bush said that allegations made by Amnesty International, claiming that the prison at Guantánamo Bay is a “gulag,” were absurd. Bush accused Amnesty of listening to “people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble--that means not tell the truth.”
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Whitehouse.gov
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| May 1, 2005 | - A secret British memo from July 2002, summarizing a meeting between Tony Blair and his security advisors, was made public. The memo implied that President Bush had already made up his mind to go to war in Iraq, despite his claims to the contrary, and that intelligence and facts about Iraq would be “fixed around the policy.”
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Common Dreams
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| April 23, 2005 | - Rice also ordered a State Department report on terrorism be stripped of statistics that showed that terrorist attacks were on the rise.
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Philly.com
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| March 25, 2005 | - It was reported that when American soldiers in Iraq shot at the car of Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian hostage who had just been released, they shot from behind, without warning, far from any checkpoint, and within the Green Zone.
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Democracy Now!
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| March 9, 2005 | - and police in York, Pennsylvania, arrested a fifty-three-year-old serial sheep
molester in a barn. The man said he was just petting the sheep, even though it was 3 A.M., it was not his barn, and he had baler's twine in his back pocket, which can be used to bind sheep.
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York Sunday News
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| March 3, 2005 | -
FOX News had over twice as many viewers as CNN.
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New York Post
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| February 28, 2005 | - USA Next, a group with ties to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, attacked the AARP for its position against Social Security reform.
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Newsweek
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| February 9, 2005 | -
Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told of being forced to cover up their findings regarding risks to endangered species. Forty-two percent said they feared retaliation if they told the truth.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
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| February 9, 2005 | -
Zimbabwean women's track-and-field star Samukeliso Sithole turned out to be male. Sithole, who owns several beasts, claims that his penis has grown in only recently.
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AllAfrica.com
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| January 29, 2005 | - U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza tried to ease tensions by clarifying that "the wave of border violence is a result of successful efforts by President Fox's administration in the fight against organized crime."
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Reuters
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| January 28, 2005 | -
Social Security Administration workers testified that they had been ordered "to promote the idea that Social Security is in crisis and that Social Security privatization is the answer."
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Reuters
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| January 9, 2005 | -
Halliburton, operating through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, was to start drilling for oilin Iran.
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Reuters
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| January 6, 2005 | - Scott Peterson's ex-girlfriend called him a liar,
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MSNBC
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| December 19, 2004 | -
Time Magazine named President George W. Bush "Person of the Year" and praised him for "reframing reality to match his design."
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CBS News
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| December 19, 2004 | - and Donald Rumsfeld announced that from now on he would personally sign condolence letters sent to the families of soldiers killed in action, instead of using a machine.
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CNN
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| December 15, 2004 | - United States military officials couldn't explain the failure of the most recent missile shield test, but maintained that it was "a very good training exercise."
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Guardian
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| November 4, 2004 | - President Bush promised "to serve all Americans":
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New York Times
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| October 30, 2004 | - Bush-Cheney campaign officials were happy to hear from Osama: "We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days," said one. Another said that "anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush."
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NY Daily News
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| October 11, 2004 | - The Labor Department reported that the economy created a mere 96,000 jobs last month, thus failing to keep pace with the expansion of the nation's work force and confirming that George W. Bush has the worst job creation record of any president since Herbert Hoover. The White House reacted to the bad news by declaring that the poor job numbers prove that the president's tax cuts have been working.
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New York Times
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| October 7, 2004 | -
Cheney
claimed that he had never before met Senator Edwards; newspapers then published a photograph of the two men smiling and speaking together at a prayer breakfast.
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New York Times
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| October 5, 2004 | -
L. Paul Bremer, President Bush's former proconsul in Iraq, told an audience of insurance agents that "we never had enough troops on the ground" and that "the single most important change — the one thing that would have improved the situation — would have been having more troops in Iraq at the beginning and throughout." Bremer said that he had argued for more troops but that his requests were denied. The Bush Administration first denied that Bremer asked for more troops and then admitted that, yes, in fact, he did.
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Washington Post
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| August 7, 2004 | - It was the 40th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to escalate the war in Vietnam; historians noted its similarity to the October 2002 congressional resolution authorizing the invasion of Iraq, which was also based on falsehoods.
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Newsday
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| August 5, 2004 | - Tom Ridge, the secretary of Homeland Security, "categorically" denied that the recent terror alerts, which were based on three- and four-year-old intelligence, were politically motivated.
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USA Today
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| July 10, 2004 | - The Senate Intelligence Committee released a scathing report on the CIA's unfounded, unjustified, and unreasonable claims about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction; the report was oddly silent, however, about the Bush Administration's well-documented and apparently successful campaign to intimidate the CIA into coming up with justifications for the President's fraudulent case for the invasion.
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New York Times
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| June 30, 2004 | - Of the 2,300 construction projects promised by coalition forces, fewer than 140 were underway at the time of the transfer of power.
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New York Times
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| June 25, 2004 | -
Al Gore said that George W. Bush is a liar for repeatedly suggesting that Saddam Hussein was allied with Osama bin Laden and that the president's "consistent and careful artifice is itself evidence that he knew full well that he was telling an artful and important lie."
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Reuters
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| June 24, 2004 | - L. Paul Bremer, the American proconsul in Iraq, in one of his final acts before handing over "sovereignty" to Iraq's new interim government, decreed that American forces will remain immune from prosecution by Iraqi courts for crimes against Iraqi citizens or destruction of property. It was noted that a similar grant of immunity in Iran in the 1960s had unfortunate consequences. "Our honor has been trampled underfoot; the dignity of Iran has been destroyed," said the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1964. He said that the order "reduced the Iranian people to a level lower than that of an American dog."
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Washington Post
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| June 17, 2004 | - "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and Al Qaeda, because there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda," said President Bush at a news conference.
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Washington Post
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| June 7, 2004 | - Administration lawyers argued last year in a classified report that President Bush is not bound by laws and treaties that ban torture; the report concluded that "in order to respect the president's inherent constitutional authority to manage a military campaign . . . (the prohibition against torture) must be construed as inapplicable to interrogations undertaken pursuant to his commander-in-chief authority." The report further argued that the president has the "inherent" authority to set aside laws and that consequently his subordinates could not be prosecuted for violating anti-torture laws.
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Wall Street Journal
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| June 6, 2004 | - President George W. Bush traveled to France to attend a ceremony commemorating the D-Day invasion and attempted to play down his dispute with President Jacques Chirac over the invasion of Iraq; Bush told French journalists that he was never angry with the French or with Chirac for his refusal to endorse the war, and he even invited Chirac to visit the ranch down in Crawford, Texas. "If he wants to come and see cows, he's welcome to come out here and see some cows," Bush said, apparently unaware that Chirac, a former agriculture minister, is a cattle expert.
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New York Times
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| May 19, 2004 | - It was noticed that members of the Bush Administration have been going around the country taking credit for programs even as the president cuts or eliminates them from his budget.
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New York Times
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| April 22, 2004 | - Mordecai Vanunu, the scientist who exposed Israel's
nuclear-weapons program, was released from prison after 18 years, 11 of which were in solitary confinement. Israel has maintained an official policy of "nuclear ambiguity" even though Vanunu confirmed that the country possesses weapons of mass destruction.
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New York Times
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| April 14, 2004 | -
president defended his decision to conquer Iraq and said that the Iraqis were "deceptive at hiding things. We knew they were hiding things. A country that hides things is a country that is afraid of getting caught. And that was part of our calculation."
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New York Times
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| April 11, 2004 | - "That PDB said nothing about an attack on America," the president told reporters as he left church on Sunday.
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White House transcript
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| April 9, 2004 | - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testified publicly and under oath before the commission investigating September 11; Rice acknowledged that President Bush had received a classified CIA briefing on August 6, 2001, entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States," though she characterized the report as "historical information based on old reporting." She also acknowledged that the report mentioned the existence of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States but "there was no recommendation that we do something about this." Rice also admitted that Richard Clarke, whose book on the Bush Administration's antiterrorism failures prompted her public testimony, sent her a memo in January 2001 in which he mentioned sleeper cells. Again, Rice said, "there was no mention or recommendation of anything that needs to be done about them." Rice said that she couldn't remember whether she had ever mentioned the existence of the sleeper cells to the president prior to August 6.
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New York Times
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| April 4, 2004 | -
Colin Powell admitted that the Iraqi National Congress, the U.S.-funded Iraqi exile group, was the source of "the most dramatic" bits in his notorious United Nations presentation on Iraq's mythical weapons of mass destruction.
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Miami Herald
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| April 1, 2004 | - "Despite an uptick in local engagements," said General Mark Kimmit at a press briefing a few hours later, "the overall area of operations remains relatively stable with negligible impact on the coalition's ability to continue progress in governance, economic development, and restoration of essential services."
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New York Times
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| March 19, 2004 | - The president of Poland acknowledged publicly that the United States "deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. "We were taken for a ride," he said.
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Agence France-Presse
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| March 15, 2004 | -
Congress was investigating videos produced by the White House for local television news programs in which paid actors impersonate reporters and give flattering accounts of the new Medicare law.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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| March 13, 2004 | - White House officials denied that the president was responsible for the record budget deficit.
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New York Times
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| March 11, 2004 | - The Pentagon was still paying $340,000 a month to the Iraqi National Congress, the exile group that provided much of the discredited intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
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New York Times
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| March 11, 2004 | - It was revealed that the Bush Administration threatened to fire the government's chief Medicare actuary if he told Congress that the Medicare bill, which was passed in November by 5 votes, would cost more than $500 billion over 10 years, rather than the $395 billion the administration was claiming publicly.
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Knight-Ridder
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| March 10, 2004 | -
CIA director George Tenet revealed that he has privately corrected Dick Cheney several times after the vice president publicly "misconstrued" intelligence.
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New York Times
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| March 4, 2004 | - The inspector general of the USDA opened a criminal investigation into whether the Washington State mad cow was falsely listed as a downer; the man who killed the cow, the man who took the cow to slaughter, and the owner of the slaughterhouse have all said that the cow was able to walk. A spokeswoman for the agency said that she could not "fathom" the notion that a high-ranking USDA official could have ordered the falsification, though she did not deny the charge but simply repeated that she could not "fathom" it.
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New York Times
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| March 2, 2004 | - Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, suggested cutting Social Security and Medicare to help pay for President Bush's massive tax cuts for the rich.
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New York Times
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| February 25, 2004 | - A scientist with the Department of Agriculture said that government researchers have been pressured by the office of Secretary Ann Veneman to approve
livestock and other products for import without taking proper safety precautions.
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New York Times
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| February 22, 2004 | -
Health and Human Services officials admitted that a report on racial and ethnic disparities in health care was altered to make it seem more upbeat. "There was a mistake made," said Secretary Tommy Thompson.
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New York Times
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| February 19, 2004 | - More than 60 prominent scientists, including 20 Nobel prize winners and 19 winners of the National Medal of Science, denounced the Bush Administration for its systematic distortion of scientific facts for political gain; John H. Marburger III, the administration's head of science and technology policy, dismissed the report and said that it was politically motivated.
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Chemical and Environmental News
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| February 18, 2004 | - The Bush Administration began to back away from its predictions that the national economy, which has lost 2.5 million jobs since Bush took office, would add 2.6 million jobs this year.
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New York Times
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| February 18, 2004 | - Scientists found that people are more likely to tell lies when using the telephone.
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Cornell University
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| February 13, 2004 | - A new poll found that most Americans believe that President Bush lied or knowingly exaggerated evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The poll also showed Senator John Kerry beating the president by nine percentage points.
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Washington Post
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| February 12, 2004 | - White House officials tried unsuccessfully to wriggle out of a promise Bush made on national television to release his entire military file, though they continued to insist that the president has nothing to hide.
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Washington Post, USA Today
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| February 11, 2004 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that he did not recall British Prime Minister Tony Blair's prewar claim that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. "I don't remember the statement being made, to be perfectly honest." The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Richard Myers, didn't remember it either.
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Sydney Morning Herald
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| February 9, 2004 | -
John Kerry noted that "now the president is giving us a new reason for sending people to war. And the problem is not just that he is changing his story now. It is that it appears he was telling the American people stories in 2002."
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San Jose Mercury News
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| February 6, 2004 | - The Bush Administration praised Pakistan after General Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist who took the blame for selling nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea; Khan claimed that no one in the government or in the military was aware of his activities.
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MSNBC
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| January 28, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney gave the pope a crystal dove.
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New York Times
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| January 26, 2004 | - President Pervez Musharraf admitted that some of Pakistan's top nuclear scientists had sold nuclear technology to other countries but denied that the government was involved; Musharraf was accused of scapegoating the scientists to appease the United States.
| Source:
Christian Science Monitor
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| January 9, 2004 | - Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted that he never saw any hard proof of Iraqi links to Al Qaeda but failed to explain why he lied to the U.N. Security Council last February.
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New York Times
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| January 8, 2004 | - The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace issued a report concluding that Iraq did not in fact possess any weapons of mass destruction. The report, which drew on intelligence material and documents discovered by weapons inspectors after the war, criticized the United States government for its deliberate exaggerations of Iraq's military capabilities.
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New Scientist
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| January 3, 2004 | - Federal authorities continued to claim that the diseased meat "is a zero-risk product."
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San Francisco Chronicle
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| December 25, 2003 | - Government and other beef industry officials claimed that there were "firewalls" in place to prevent infectious prions from reaching American hamburgers; Dr. Stanley Prusiner, the Nobel laureate who discovered prions, contradicted those claims and explained that he believes the disease is already widespread in the United States. "They treat the disease as if it were an infection that you can contain by quarantining animals on farms," he said. "It's as though my work of the last 20 years did not exist."
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New York Times
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| December 16, 2003 | - Senator Bill Nelson of Florida revealed that the Bush Administration told senators last year that Saddam Hussein definitely possessed biological and chemical weapons and that his unmanned drones could reach cities on the East Coast.
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Florida Today
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| November 8, 2003 | - The Bush Administration previously had promised that the lawsuits would continue after the rules change.
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New York Times
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| July 13, 2003 | -
President Bush, asked whether he regretted his false claim about the uranium, responded by saying there was "no doubt" in his mind that he was right to conquer Iraq.
"And there's no doubt in my mind, when it's all said and done, the facts will show the world the truth."
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New York Times
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| July 12, 2003 | -
George Tenet, the director of central intelligence, took the blame for the president's discredited claim and said that "these 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president."
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BBC
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| June 11, 2003 | - Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, said that it doesn't matter whether WMD are found, "because the rationale for the war changed. Americans like a good picture. And one photograph of an Iraqi
child kissing a U.S. soldier is more powerful than two months of debate on the floor of Congress."
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Washington Post
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| June 6, 2003 | - President Bush flew over Iraq shortly after he told U.S. troops in Qatar that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction would eventually be found.
"We're on the look," he said.
"We'll reveal the truth."
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International Herald Tribune
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| June 6, 2003 | - The two top editors of the New York Times resigned in disgrace.
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New York Times
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| March 20, 2001 | - After a heavy lobbying campaign by the electric industry, President George W. Bush broke a campaign promise and decided not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, humiliating Christie Whitman, his EPA administrator, and effectively killing the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change. The President said that he was worried about an energy crisis and that he wasn't entirely convinced that global warming was real.
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