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Jason Leopold

Bush's Concerns Over Voter Fraud Led to Iglesias's Firing

President George W. Bush and Karl Rove, the former White House political adviser, both appear to have helped orchestrate the firing of former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias after receiving numerous complaints from Republican activists that the federal prosecutor would not pursue charges of voter fraud, according to a report on the U.S. Attorney purge released Monday by the Justice Department's internal watchdog.

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Palin's Office Scrubs Documents From Governor's Website

On July 18, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ma de the unusual decision of posting two documents http://gov.state.ak.us/archive-28906.html on her website, accompanied by a harshly worded statement, denying reports that her husband, Todd Palin, and officials in her office illegally accessed her ex-brother-in-law's confidential personnel files.

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Billionaire Backer Of Anti-Obama Ad Previously Broke Campaign Finance Laws

Harold Simmons, the billionaire Dallas investor has grown accustomed to using his vast wealth to influence the outcome of elections.

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McCain Administration Could Result in More Wars in Middle East

What would a John McCain administration look like if the Arizona senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee were elected President of the United States in November?

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Government Investigators Give Bush's Troop 'Surge' Mixed Reviews

President George W. Bush’s Iraq troop “surge,” which is now ending, got a mixed report card from congressional investigators, who found that many of Bush’s stated goals remained unmet.

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McCain's Nuclear Power Policy Identical to Bush Administration's

GOP Presidential candidate John McCain’s ambitious plan to build 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 as a means to combat global warming and add juice to the power grid is a policy ripped from the Bush administration’s failed National Energy Policy, first introduced by Vice President Dick Cheney during the height of the California energy crisis seven years ago.

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Judge Rules in White House’s Favor in Missing Email Case

A U.S. District Court Judge ruled Monday that the White House’s Office of Administration does not have to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request related to how officials in the office handled internal discussions about millions of missing White House emails.

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Libby Links Cheney to Plame Leak

FBI documents obtained by a congressional committee indicate that Vice President Dick Cheney may have authorized his former deputy to leak the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson.

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The Bush Team's Geneva Hypocrisy

Newly released U.S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Convention’s protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the Iraq War when Iraqi TV interviewed several captured American soldiers.

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Torture Question Hovers Over Chertoff

John Yoo and some other Bush administration lawyers who built the legal framework for torture are now out of the U.S. government, but one still holds a Cabinet-level rank – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

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