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"There
ought to be limits to freedom."-George Bush, 1999 |
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Bush
criticizes Web site as malicious |
Saying
"there ought to be limits to freedom," Gov. George
W. Bush has filed a legal complaint against the owners of a
Web site that lampoons his White House bid. |
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Presidential
contender's reaction to parody Web site backfires |
The
parody George W. Bush Web site has gotten 6,451,466 hits during
the first 25 days of May, thanks in part to the story's front-page
treatment by The New York Times online edition, Exley said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the real George W. Bush Web site has gotten about
30,000 hits in May, according to Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker. |
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"If
this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier,
just so long as I'm the dictator."
George W. Bush-December 18, 2000 |
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If
I Were a Dictator... by GEORGE W. BUSH |
George
W. Bush has stated he'd prefer to be a dictator at least three
times |
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Free-Speech
Zone The administration quarantines dissent. |
On
Dec. 6, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft informed the Senate
Judiciary Committee, To those who scare peace-loving people
with phantoms of lost liberty
your tactics only aid terrorists,
for they erode our national unity and
give ammunition
to Americas enemies. Some commentators feared that
Ashcrofts statement, which was vetted beforehand by top
lawyers at the Justice Department, signaled that this White
House would take a far more hostile view towards opponents than
did recent presidents. And indeed, some Bush administration
policies indicate that Ashcrofts comment was not a mere
throwaway line. |
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Bush
Clamping Down On Presidential Papers |
The
Bush White House has drafted an executive order that would usher
in a new era of secrecy for presidential records and allow an
incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers
even if the former president wanted to make them public. |
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SUMMARY
OF THE BUSH EXECUTIVE ORDER ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT-PDF |
The
Presidential Records Act was passed in 1978 to make Presidential
records the property of the public and to assure that these
records are released to the public in a timely manner. On November
1, 2001, however, President Bush issued Executive Order 13233
which significantly curtails the disclosure of Presidential
records under the Presidential Records Act. Under the new executive
order, former Presidents are given virtually unlimited discretion
to withhold their records indefinitely. |
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Michael
Moore |
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Report-Disney
Blocking Anti-Bush Documentary |
Oscar-winning
filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary linking President Bush
with powerful Saudi families, including that of Osama bin Laden,
is stirring up controversy even before its release. |
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REPUBLICAN
STRATEGIST BEHIND EFFORTS TO INTIMIDATE THEATRE OWNERS ABOUT
MICHAEL MOORE FILM |
Michael
Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11 is due to hit theatres on June 25th.
But that hasn't stopped a campaign from being launched to intimidate
theatre owners into not booking the film: |
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Conservatives
launch pre-emptive strike against documentary critical of Bush
'Fahrenheit 9/11' called propaganda |
The
California-based organization, called Move America Forward,
is headed by former GOP Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian and aided
by Melanie Morgan, a talk show host on KSFO 560 AM, both of
whom had high-profile roles in support of last year's recall
election of former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. |
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Republican
dirty tricksters join the Motion Picture Association of America
to stop Americans from seeing Michael Moores new movie,
Fahrenheit 9/11. |
The
award winning movie Fahrenheit 9/11 exposes financial connections
between President George W. Bushs family, its associates,
and prominent Saudi Arabian families including that of Osama
bin Laden. The latter is blamed for masterminding the September
11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington DC.
The movie also exposes the Bush administrations role in
evacuating Osama bin Laden's relatives from the US immediately
after the September 11 attacks. |
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Valerie
Plame (Joseph Wilson's Wife) |
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Bush
Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name |
Witnesses
told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about,
and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's
name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband,
a critic of administration policy in Iraq. |
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Cheney's
Staff Focus of Probe |
Federal
law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard
evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of
Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful
exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation,
which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department
official said. |
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Cheney
Chief-of-Staff Named as Spy-gate Leaker |
MSNBC'S
Buchanan & Press scored a major scoop on Wednesday, all
but unmasking the high government official who "outed"
a CIA operative via a July 14 column by Robert Novak. Larry
Johnson, a former CIA analyst who worked with Valerie Plame,
the reported agent, all but identified "Scooter" Libby
as the government official who outed her and at least
one other in the Vice President's office. |
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Cheney
staff accused of role in CIA leak |
In
new book, Joseph Wilson names administration officials who may
have leaked wife's job. |
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The
CIA leak-Robert Novak |
The
leak now under Justice Department investigation is described
by former Ambassador Wilson and critics of President Bush's
Iraq policy as a reprehensible effort to silence them. |
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Bill
Mahr |
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Politically
Correct After All |
The
boys at NewsMax backpedal on their war against Bill Maher after
finally figuring out they agree with him. |
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Dixie
Chicks |
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Political
controversy |
A
controversy has arisen regarding exactly who was responsible
for launching the boycott of their music and the extent their
fans supported the boycott. Some critics of the boycott, such
as Michael Moore, claim the boycott was not a product of large
numbers of fans angry at their comments but an organized plot
by Bush supporting radio chain executives and the Republican
party leadership. |
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