Bush Scandals Numbers 201-300

[LoungeMachine]

201. SCOTUS: Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (gender discrimination)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Labor, Law/Constitution
202. SCOTUS: Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life (issue oriented political advertising)
Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
203. SCOTUS: Morse et al v. Frederick (free speech of minors)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
204. SCOTUS: Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (price fixing OK’ed)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
205. Booz Allen cost overruns on DHS intelligence contract and DHS incompetence
Posted in: Contractors, Cronyism, DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
206. Alphonso Jackson (Secretary HUD and political interference)
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Corruption, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General
207. Donald Rumsfeld
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Iraq, Torture, War on Terror
208. SCOTUS: Rapanos v. United States (wetland protection)
Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
209. Attempts to overturn the Roadless Rule protection of wilderness areas
Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
210. An unreported leak of highly enriched uranium
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence
211. Opening up the San Rafael Swell to development
Posted in: Cronyism, Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
212. Pro-rating the value of older Americans at the EPA
Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
213. Shoddy armoring kits for Humvees from defense contractors
Posted in: Contractors, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops
214. Senator David Vitter (a family values conservative who likes to visit prostitutes)
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Sex
215. Nuclear Regulatory Commission control of radioactive materials remain ineffective
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, WMD, War on Terror
216. Hedge fund profits while huge are taxed at lower rates
Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
217. SAIC, the revolving door, and expensive contracts for systems that don’t work
Posted in: Contractors, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Revolving Door
218. MRAP, delay in deployment of IED resistant vehicles to Iraq
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops, Whistleblower
219. Intelligence Oversight Board which did nothing during 5 1/2 years of Bush excesses
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence
220. DHS employed Wackenhut for its security, a firm that just may be more incompetent than the DHS
Posted in: Contractors, DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence
221. Drug czar John Walters and Hatch Act violations
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
222. SCHIP (children’s healthcare less important than insurance company profits)
Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
223. Alaska’s two Senators and one Congressman all caught up in corruption scandals
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
224. Don Siegelman (ex-Governor of Alabama and a political prosecution with ties to Karl Rove)
Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Politicization of the DOJ, Whistleblower
225. FEMA trailers for Katrina victims with high levels of formaldehyde
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Katrina
226. The White House declares that Harriet Miers doesn’t have to answer a subpoena based on a legal opinion by a lawyer who legally should no longer be in his post
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Law/Constitution
227. White House says it will not prosecute contempt citations
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, Politicization of the DOJ
228. Matthew McKeown a political appointee hired into a career position at Interior
Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
229. Attempted political interference in Oxycontin plea deal
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference
230. David Petraeus mislays 350,000 rifles and pistols in Iraq
Posted in: Contractors, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Iraq
231. David Palmer (EOCC nomination despite poor management and legal skills)
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
232. Peter Kirsanow affirmative action opponent named to Civil Rights Commission
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Labor
233. Patriot Act Extension gave the AG the right to decide if death penalty defendants were adequately represented
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
234. Petraeus report (hyped by the White House but actually written by it and not presented by Petraeus)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, Politics/Domestic
235. Richard Stickler (opposed to mine safety regulation nominated to head Mine Safety)
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Labor
236. Daniel Pipes (anti-Moslem appointed to the US Institute of Peace)
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
237. Nicole Nason (head of National Traffic Safety Administration bans experts from talking with public)
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media
238. Senator Larry Craig arrested for soliciting sex with a male police officer
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Sex
239. Auditor of no bid KBR Iraq contract demoted
Posted in: Contractors, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
240. ADVISE DHS data mining program inappropriately reviewed
Posted in: DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence
241. Use of state secrets argument
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
242. Breastfeeding campaign changed due to infant formula manufacturers‚ pressure
Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference
243. Consumer Products Safety Commission gutted
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
244. Steven Law (Mitch McConnell crony)
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Labor
245. Iraq met few of the Bush Administration’s own benchmarks
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq
246. Peter Keisler (Civil Division Justice)
Posted in: Guantanamo, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, Political Interference
247. Six nuclear tipped cruise missiles flown across US in massive security breach
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, WMD
248. Marion Blakey (FAA head takes job with industry trade group)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Revolving Door
249. DOJ announces it will not prosecute Chiquita Banana executives for paying off Columbian terrorists
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
250. Alexis Debat neocon terrorism expert caught making up numerous interviews
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iran, Media, War on Terror
251. Howard Krongard (State IG more interested in covering up department misdeeds)
Posted in: Afghanistan, Contractors, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General, Iraq
252. Telecoms involved in warrantless wiretapping are represented by former government officials and protected by current officials who used to work for them
Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Law/Constitution, Surveillance
253. Turbulence, an NSA/DHS intrusive cyber surveillance program
Posted in: DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Surveillance
254. Charles Reichers procurement officer benefitted from contractor largesse
Posted in: Contractors, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
255. Karl Zinsmeister kooky White House domestic policy adviser
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic, Sex
256. Blackwater (private security contractor involved in numerous incidents in Iraq)
Posted in: Contractors, Criminality, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq
257. Runup to the Iraq war (in quotes)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, WMD
258. State Department gives grant to Taliban
Posted in: Afghanistan, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
259. Failure to spend funds to exonerate individuals through DNA testing
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence
260. Proposed DHS use of flawed Social Security info to weed out undocumented workers
Posted in: DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Immigration, Incompetence
261. CIA Director investigates his own Inspector General
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General, Intelligence
262. Joseph Schmitz (partisan former DOD IG)
Posted in: Contractors, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Inspector General, Revolving Door
263. Chemical restraints used on undocumented immigrants
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Immigration, Torture
264. Downing Street memo (Bush determined to go to war, non-coverage by US press)
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, Media
265. Michael Mukasey nominated as AG, makes clear he will back all of Bush’s policies
Posted in: Guantanamo, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Politicization of the DOJ, Torture
266. In test, airport screeners miss most fake bombs; near collisions between aircraft on the ground little changed
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
267. Dyncorp was given a billion dollars to train the Iraqi police force
Posted in: Contractors, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq
268. Abdallah Higazy mistakenly arrested and held after 9/11
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Torture, War on Terror
269. Racist, anti-gay judge Leslie Southwick confirmed by Senate to Court of Appeals
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
270. Holy Land Foundation accused of funding terrorists; signature case ends in big mistrial
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, War on Terror
271. Two antagonistic anti-corruption units in Iraq
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Iraq
272. Medical contract for National Guard let to cronies
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Revolving Door
273. Fake FEMA news conference
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media
274. Zacarias Moussaoui case
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, War on Terror
275. Failure to secure fissile material at American nuclear sites
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, WMD, War on Terror
276. NIE summaries no longer to be released
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Iran
277. Donald Vance (whistleblower) held for 3 months without charge by US military
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, Whistleblower
278. Sami al Haj and Bilal Hussein, newsmen, held without charge
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, Law/Constitution, Media, War on Terror
279. Stacking the Commission on Civil Rights with Republicans
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
280. Beating the war drums and the November 2007 NIE on Iran
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iran, Iraq, WMD, War on Terror
281. Donald Kerr, No. 2 to DNI Mike McConnell, declares anonymity a thing of the past
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Law/Constitution, Revolving Door
282. Bush visit “free speech” zones
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution
283. Executive order authorizing political commissars at federal agencies
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
284. Al Hubbard wrongheaded Bush economic adviser leaves post
Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence
285. Push for last minute pro-business regulations
Posted in: Anti-candidate, Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
286. Right to kidnap foreign nationals even of countries with an extradition treaty
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror
287. White House logs declared a state secret
Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
288. Torture tapes made then destroyed
Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, Torture
289. Social Security disability backlogs growing
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic
290. Proposal (withdrawn) to place JAG corps under politically appointed DOD counsel
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, Politics/Domestic
291. Increasing mental health needs in US Army after service in Iraq
Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops
292. KBR employee raped in Iraq held against will by KBR
Posted in: Contractors, Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General, Iraq
293. Another data base this one an FBI biometric system
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Surveillance, War on Terror
294. Eric Andell (Education) in travel scandal
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
295. Lester Crawford (FDA) Plan B and conflicts of interest
Posted in: Corruption, Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
296. Carl Truscott (ATF) more interested in decorating his office than doing his job
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, War on Terror
297. John Korsmo illegal campaign event
Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
298. Bush job creation (not)
Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals
299. US Attorney Chris Christie steering contracts
Posted in: Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ
300. FBI not paying phone bills for wiretaps
Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, War on Terror

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[FORD]

In fairness, I don't think you can really blame Chimpy/the BCE for the David Vitter or Larry Craig sex scandals.

They are self righteous hypocritical lying Republican bastards, but they weren't in the Fraudministration itself.

[FORD]

What the fuck is up with the double posting?

[ELVIS]

This is fuckin' stupid and has no merit in the current political environment...

The Bushgy man is gone...

Case closed...


:elvis:

[kwame k]

258. State Department gives grant to Taliban


Yet the Bush administration did more than praise the Taliban's proclaimed ban of opium cultivation. In mid-May, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell announced a $43 million grant to Afghanistan in addition to the humanitarian aid the United States had long been providing to agencies assisting Afghan refugees. Given Callahan's comment, there was little doubt that the new stipend was a reward for Kabul's anti-drug efforts. That $43 million grant needs to be placed in context. Afghanistan's estimated gross domestic product was a mere $2 billion. The equivalent financial impact on the U.S. economy would have required an infusion of $215 billion. In other words, $43 million was very serious money to Afghanistan's theocratic masters.

To make matters worse, U.S. officials were naive to take the Taliban edict at face value. The much-touted crackdown on opium poppy cultivation appears to have been little more than an illusion. Despite U.S. and UN reports that the Taliban had virtually wiped out the poppy crop in 2000-2001, authorities in neighboring Tajikistan reported that the amounts coming across the border were actually increasing. In reality, the Taliban gave its order to halt cultivation merely to drive up the price of opium the regime had already stockpiled.

Even if the Taliban had tried to stem cultivation for honest reasons, U.S. cooperation with that regime should have been morally repugnant. Among other outrages, the Taliban government prohibited the education of girls, tortured and executed political critics, and required non-Muslims to wear distinctive clothing--a practice eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany's requirement that Jews display the Star of David on their clothing. Yet U.S. officials deemed none of that to be a bar to cooperation with the Taliban on drug policy.

Even if the Bush administration had not been dissuaded by moral considerations, it should have been by purely pragmatic concerns. There was already ample evidence in the spring of 2001 that the Taliban was giving sanctuary to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network that had bombed two U.S. embassies in East Africa. For the State Department to ignore that connection and agree to subsidize the Taliban was inexcusably obtuse. Scheer was on the mark when he concluded, "The war on drugs has become our own fanatics' obsession and easily trumps all other concerns."

Washington's approach came to an especially calamitous end in September 2001 when the Taliban regime was linked to bin Laden's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed some 3,000 people. Moreover, evidence quickly emerged that the Taliban all along had been collecting millions of dollars in profits from the illicit drug trade, with much of that money going into the coffers of the terrorists. Rarely is there such graphic evidence of the bankruptcy of U.S. drug policy.
Also of interest

Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America

Foreign policy expert Ted Galen Carpenter outlines strategies for protecting America's security while avoiding unnecessary and unrewarding military adventures.

Opinion and Commentary
Drug Gangs Winning the War for Mexico
Obama's Legislative Funeral
Lazy Allies
Arrest Michael Phelps Now!
Bush's Legacy: The End of an Error
Studies
Troubled Neighbor: Mexico's Drug Violence Poses a Threat to the United States
Taiwan's Defense Budget: How Taipei's Free Riding Risks War
Escaping the Trap: Why the United States Must Leave Iraq
Perilous Panacea: The Military in the Drug War
The U.S. Campaign Against International Narcotics Trafficking: A Cure Worse than the Disease
Daily Podcasts
A New Tone toward the Muslim World
Close Guantanamo Bay
Advice to Obama: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Security Theater and Balancing Risks
What Overreaction to Terrorism Delivers
Events
Afghanistan Seven Years Later
Global Terror's Central Front: Pakistan and Afghanistan
Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America
China’s Rise: Is Conflict Unavoidable?
Taiwan's Defense Budget: How Taipei's Free Riding Risks War
Drug War
Terrorism and Homeland Security Link (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3556)

:pullinghair:

[ELVIS]

Especially to sticky this bullshit...

C'mon, this forum is becoming a laughing stock...


:elvis:

[kwame k]

I agree that some of these are silly but.............

[LoungeMachine]

This is fuckin' stupid and has no merit in the current political environment...

The Bushgy man is gone...

Case closed...


:elvis:

:lol:

But Clinton, But Clinton......

[FORD]

This is fuckin' stupid and has no merit in the current political environment...

The Bushgy man is gone...

Case closed...


:elvis:

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. - Bill Shakespeare

[chefcraig]

This is fuckin' stupid and has no merit in the current political environment...

The Bushgy man is gone...

Case closed...


:elvis:

You choose to refer to the President of the United States by using the N-word, yet this is "fuckin' stupid and has no merit in the current political environment"? :tongue0011:

[LoungeMachine]

I agree that some of these are silly but.............

Let's say for the sake of argument that 90% are silly.......

That leaves 40 scandals.

Let's say he's only guilty of 10% of those

That's 4 he should be investigated for, and have charges brought forth if the evidence suggests.....

:gulp:

[LoungeMachine]

You choose to refer to the President of the United States by using the N-word, yet this is "fuckin' stupid and has no merit in the current political environment"? :tongue0011:

Oh, snap

That's gonna leave a mark.

:gulp:

[kwame k]

Let's say for the sake of argument that 90% are silly.......

That leaves 40 scandals.

Let's say he's only guilty of 10% of those

That's 4 he should be investigated for, and have charges brought forth if the evidence suggests.....

:gulp:

I've always said this SOB should be investigated......The big 4 would be.....

1. Failure to uphold and defend the Constitution.
2. Manipulating the facts and lying to Congress and the UN for justification in invading Iraq.
3. Violation of Habeas Corpus and torture.
4. Abuse of power and invoking Executive Privilege, thus thwarting Congress from doing it's job of Checks and Balances.

[sadaist]

You choose to refer to the President of the United States by using the N-word, yet this is "fuckin' stupid and has no merit in the current political environment"? :tongue0011:

N-word?


http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa214/sadaist/Annoy.jpg

[ELVIS]

Oh, snap

:gulp:

You pick up that line from your 17 year old boyfriend ??

[LoungeMachine]

You pick up that line from your 17 year old boyfriend ??

Really?

The male nurse who worships the pedophile wants to tag ME with that?

Project, much?

:lol:

[ELVIS]

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:elvis:

[LoungeMachine]

You choose to refer to the President of the United States by using the N-word, yet this is "fuckin' stupid and has no merit in the current political environment"? :tongue0011:

This is my favorite comeback of 2009 thus far......

Brilliant.

:gulp:

[ELVIS]

How come you fags never slag Sarge for being a male nurse ??

[LoungeMachine]

We respect him

[and he doesn't go around calling us "fags" all the time like you do]

:gulp:


Next question?

[ELVIS]

I don't either, queer...

:biggrin:

[LoungeMachine]

Homo

:gulp:

[FORD]

We respect him

[and he doesn't go around calling us "fags" all the time like you do]



He also doesn't call the President a "******".

[hideyoursheep]

How come you fags never slag Sarge for being a male nurse ??

Because of where he works and who he works for....
:war:

And you?....


:turninggay:

:biggrin:


:stirthepot:

[sadaist]

He also doesn't call the President a "******".

LOL @ the safety quotes.

[katie]

http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/03/usa_is_made_by_immigrants.jpg

[sadaist]

http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/03/usa_is_made_by_immigrants.jpg

His shirt didn't have space for the terms "legal" or "illegal"?