What was an Iraqi politician doing at CIA headquarters just days before he distributed a fake memo incriminating Saddam Hussein in 9/11?
By Joe Conason Aug 8, 2008
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In the transcript, a former official talks about the CIA's being ordered to forge evidence, and says he thinks the order came from Cheney's office.
By Alex Koppelman
August 8, 2008
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In further chronicles of Bush government deceit, author Ron Suskind drops a bombshell: The White House ordered the CIA to fake a letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
By Louis Bayard
August 6, 2008
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A conversation with Buzzy Krongard, the executive director of the CIA from 2001 to 2004, about the new National Intelligence Estimate and al-Qaida's resurgence in Pakistan.
By Alex Koppelman
July 19, 2007
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Why the worldview of "Heroes" clashes with the vice president's "1 percent doctrine" on terrorism.
By Juan Cole
May 30, 2007
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Courtesy of Ron Suskind comes more news from the Department of Not Even Shocking Anymore With This White House.
By Thomas Schaller
August 5, 2008
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Unlike alleged al-Qaida terrorist Jose Padilla, right-wing "dirty bomber" Demetrius Crocker was investigated and prosecuted the old-fashioned constitutional way.
By Alex Koppelman
December 18, 2006
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Natinonal Review editor Rich Lowry plucks a cherry from a sordid sundae.
By Tim Grieve
September 15, 2006
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The author of "The One Percent Doctrine," Ron Suskind, talks about what the U.S. really got out of Abu Zubaydah and why waterboarding doesn't make America safer.
By Alex Koppelman
September 7, 2006
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In his devastating new book, Ron Suskind shows how 9/11 allowed George W. Bush and his shadowy courtier, Dick Cheney, to "create whatever reality was convenient."
By Gary Kamiya
June 23, 2006
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Ron Suskind's latest book offers new details about how the Bush White House has used theological certainty to mask political expediency -- facts be damned.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 22, 2006
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Bush to briefer: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."
By Tim Grieve
June 20, 2006
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The Bush administration has been at war with the media from Day One. Is its real goal to undermine the press itself -- and thereby eliminate inconvenient truths?
By Eric Boehlert
March 2, 2005
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Ron Suskind, who exposed the ruthless internal operations of Team Bush, tells Salon that many Republicans, too, are frightened by the White House's "kill-or-be-killed desire to undermine public debate based on fact."
By Eric Boehlert
October 20, 2004
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The GOP attack on a Times Magazine story is the latest attempt to rally the conservative base by "whacking a newspaper with 'New York' in its name," says executive editor Bill Keller.
By Eric Boehlert
October 19, 2004
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Some Reagan conservatives decry Bush's "Messianic" approach and preference for dogma over evidence.
By James K. Galbraith
October 18, 2004
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When Democrats charged that President Bush was unfit for his job, Bush's defenders dismissed it. But now Paul O'Neill, a classic GOP insider, says the same thing -- and it's even worse than you've heard.
By Sidney Blumenthal
January 15, 2004
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Conservatives attack Paul O'Neill's "overblown" revelations about the Bush-Cheney war plan. Plus: Norquist hammers Bush for the huge budget deficit; Buchanan greets the president's immigration plan by calling for "Operation Wetback."
By Mark Follman
January 14, 2004
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"A Hope in the Unseen" tells the story of an inner-city black kid at Brown -- through the eyes of a white author who tries to channel him.
By Janet McDonald
August 24, 1998