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Legacy Fight: Inside Bush and Cheney's Tense Final Days
Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon the Vice President's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Libby had been convicted nearly two years earlier of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity by senior White House officials. The Libby pardon, aides reported, had become something of a crusade for Cheney, who seemed prepared to push his nine-year-old relationship with Bush to the breaking point - and perhaps past it - over the fate of his former aide. "We don't want to leave anyone on the battlefield," Cheney argued.
Nations:Afghanistan U.S. People:George W. Bush Dick Cheney Donald H. Rumsfeld Bill Clinton Tim Russert Alberto Gonzales Activities:Bush Admin. 2003 CIA Leak Case
2009-07-23
House panel axes Pentagon 'propaganda'
Winning hearts and minds overseas is costing the Pentagon a little love back home in Congress.
Nations:Afghanistan U.S. People:Donald H. Rumsfeld Robert Gates John Murtha George W. Bush Source:(Politico)
2009-07-23
McNamara, defense chief during Vietnam War, dies
WASHINGTON - Robert S. McNamara, the cerebral secretary of defense who was vilified for carrying out the Vietnam War, then devoted himself to helping the world's poorest nations, died Monday. He was 93.
People:Donald H. Rumsfeld Activities:Vietnam War Source:(AP)
2009-07-06
Report links CIA to military harsh interrogations
WASHINGTON - The brutal treatment of prisoners by the military at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Afghanistan was systematic and a direct result of the CIA's early use of harsh interrogation tactics, according to a Senate report. The 232-page report released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee came less than a week after President Barack Obama released the Aug. 1, 2002 memo that justified the use of severe methods by the CIA.
Nations:Afghanistan Pakistan People:Carl Levin Paul Wolfowitz Barack Obama Donald H. Rumsfeld George W. Bush Activities:CIA Prison Scandal
2009-04-22
Britain's Brown warns US against protectionism
WASHINGTON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Americans Wednesday to look up from their own tumbling financial markets to see a world gripped by an "economic hurricane" that could be turned around with U.S. help.
Nations:U.K. U.S. Afghanistan People:Gordon Brown Edward Kennedy Barack Obama Ronald Reagan Donald H. Rumsfeld George W. Bush Activities:U.S.-U.K.
2009-03-04
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