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Nancy Pelosi says the CIA and the Bush administration mislead her on the use of waterboarding. She says she learned about the tactic’s use in 2003.
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Shoe-throwing Journalist Gets 3 Years in Prison
The attorney for an Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush says his client has been sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a foreign leader.
Bush’s Secret Dictatorship
The memo issued by the acting director of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel just five days before Barack Obama took office comes across almost as, among other things, a bit whiny. Steven Bradbury wrote to officially retract a series of memos in which his former colleagues secretly rewrote the Constitution. – from Washpo
Obama overturns Bush’s endangered species ruling
President Obama on Tuesday overturned a last-minute Bush administration regulation that many environmentalists claim weakened the Endangered Species Act. The regulation, issued a few weeks before George W. Bush left office, made it easier for federal agencies to skip consultations with government scientists before launching projects that could effect endangered wildlife. By doing overturning the regulation, Obama said during an enthusiastic reception at the Interior Department, he had restored “the scientific process to its rightful place at the heart of the Endangered Species Act, a process undermined by past administrations.” – From CNN
Bush visits hardware store that offered him job as greeter
Elliott’s Hardware in Dallas, Texas, has offered former President Bush a part-time job as a greeter.
Making light of an advertisement that offered him a job as a store greeter, former President George W. Bush stopped by a Dallas hardware store Saturday morning and jokingly inquired about the position. The visit to Elliott’s Hardware on Maple Avenue, which store officials insisted was a surprise, drew the attention of about 100 customers, many of whom were attending seminars on organic gardening. – From Dallas Morning News
George W Bush has paid a jokey visit to a hardware store in Dallas, Texas, which offered him a job as a greeter. The former US president entered the Elliott’s outlet with his security detail saying “I’m looking for a job”, store manager Andrea Bond said. The owner of the Texas chain made the offer earlier this month in a letter published in a Dallas newspaper. – From BBC
Former President George W. Bush has visited a Dallas hardware store that earlier this month made him a lighthearted offer to work as a greeter. Andrea Bond, a manager at Elliott’s Hardware, says Bush walked into the store Saturday and quipped: “I’m looking for a job.” The store had published an open letter to Bush, inviting him to apply for a store greeter position. The tongue-in-cheek appeal appeared in The Dallas Morning News and its commuter-oriented sister publication, Quick. – From AP
Trial Soon for Iraqi Who Threw Shoes at Bush
The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at former President George W. Bush will face trial Feb. 19 on the original charge of assaulting a foreign leader, a judicial official said Sunday.
AP CEO Urges Better Press Access to Military Ops
AP CEO Tom Curley says the Bush administration turned the U.S. military into a global propaganda machine while imposing tough restrictions on journalists seeking to give the public truthful reports about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Statue Honoring Bush Shoe Thrower Unveiled in Iraq
A statue built for Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at former U.S. president George Bush, is seen in Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) Baghdad, January 27, 2009. An Iraqi town has unveiled a giant monument of a shoe in honour of the journalist who threw his footwear at former U.S. President George W. Bush. The letters on the sign reads “Muntazer is fasting until the sword breaks his fast with blood, silent until our mouths speak the truth”. Picture taken January 27, 2009.
Iraqi Shoe-throwing Sculpture Removed
The director of an Iraqi orphanage says a sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed.
Meanwhile, George Bush Takes in a Basketball Game
President Bush and former first lady Laura Bush made their first public appearance Wednesday since leaving office. The two attended the Baylor women’s basketball game in Waco, Texas.
Bruce Springsteen Calls Bush Administration ‘blind’
Bruce Springsteen won’t miss former U.S. President George W. Bush. The singer says the past eight years were a ‘Freudian nightmare’ for America.
Will Ferrell on Broadway
The comedian takes the stage as George W. Bush in his one-man-show “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush.”
NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists?
And this is a surprise?
Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists. “The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.” – from The Raw Story.
Bush and Cheney portraits to come down, to be destroyed
Ah, the prefect ending to the Bush Legacy…
Portraits of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney that hang in federal buildings across the land will come down about noon Tuesday, which is when the outgoing administration officially comes to an end. “We’re going to try to get it as close to noon as possible,” said Kathy Lease, supervisory property manager for the General Services Administration in Cleveland. Once removed, the portraits will be destroyed. – from Cleveland
Obama already scrapping one of Bush’s major rules – Jackets required
Everyday is business casual day in the Obama White House. Afterall, he’s the decider now.
It’s the same Oval Office. The same desk. Even the same curtains. But President Obama has already made one major change: Go through eight years of White House photos, and you won’t find one of former President Bush in the Oval Office without his jacket on. It wasn’t just a personal preference. In the Bush administration, it was a rule: Jackets in the Oval Office — and now, it seems, one of the first Bush-era regulations to get scrapped in the Obama White House. – From CNN
As Taegan Goddard writes, “It was a rule during the Bush administration that no one ever enter the Oval Office without a jacket.” And Politico’s Ben Smith muses, “Still unclear which press staffer will be the first to show up in flip-flops.” Though this change is no doubt trivial in the larger scheme of things, it at least signifies yet another example of a symbolic break with the past. Also, the Oval Office’s less stringent dress code could very well prove psychologically advantageous to visitors and aides alike by creating a more comfortable atmosphere in which to handle presumably stressful situations – - better to worry about major economic and foreign policies to right the American ship than about gratuitous sartorial punctilios. – From Huffington Post
Bush shoe thrower seeks Swiss exile, While Bush seeks Texas exile
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush fears for his life and wants to live in Switzerland.
President and Mrs. Bush are back in Texas, after spending the past eight years in The White House. President Bush said it is good to be home, and that he looks forward to his time out of office.