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George H.W. Bush released from intensive care
Former US president George H.W. Bush is on the mend and has been released from intensive care, a spokesman said Saturday. “President Bush’s condition has improved, so he has been moved today from the intensive care unit to a regular patient room at The Methodist Hospital to continue his recovery,”…
Romney refuses to mention Bush’s name after endorsement
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is refusing to even utter George W. Bush’s name after the former president endorsed him in an elevator on Tuesday. “I’m for Mitt Romney,” Bush had blurted out to ABC News on Tuesday as the doors of the elevator closed on him in Washington,…
Ex-governor Bush ‘would consider’ Republican VP spot
Ex-Florida governor Jeb Bush said in an interview with a conservative online news site Saturday that he would “consider” running along with likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney if he were offered the job. However Bush — the son of president George Bush (1989-1993) and brother of George W. Bush (2001-2009) — thought that Florida Senator Marco Rubio would be…
Cheney demands apology from Obama for criticism of Bush foreign policy
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is demanding an apology from President Barack Obama for slamming the Bush Administration on foreign policy and not using the phrase ‘war on terror.’ On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning, host Candy Crowley asked him that given President Obama’s foreign policy accomplishments if…
U.S. allegedly spying on New York Times reporter James Risen
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen has been subjected to government surveillance and harassment that began under the Bush administration, according to a 22-page affidavit he filed Tuesday. In his 2006 book, “State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration,” author and New York Times reporter James…
CIA denies spying on U.S. critic of Iraq war
WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency on Friday denied allegations by an ex-spy that it had sought information on a US professor who was critical of the Iraq war in order to discredit him. Glenn Carle, who served as a top CIA counter-terrorism official, had told The New York Times…
Bush CIA Director wanted to use Blackwater ‘hit teams’ to kill bin Laden: report
Special report – The bin Laden kill plan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A pivotal moment in the long, tortuous quest to find Osama bin Laden came years before U.S. spy agencies discovered his hermetic compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In July 2007, then Senator Barack Obama’s top foreign policy advisers met in…
Spanish judge drops Bush admin torture probe, draws fire in U.S.
The Center for Constitutional Rights excoriated a Spanish judge’s dismissal Wednesday of a request to investigate six top former Bush administration officials over crafting a legal basis for torture. Judge Eloy Velasco declared in his four-page ruling tossing out the case that the United States had informed Spain that it…
Feds: Bush White House broke campaign laws in 2006
Officials in the Bush administration systematically broke election laws by using a political office inside the White House for campaign purposes, a federal investigation has found. In a report (PDF) released Monday, the Office of Special Counsel said staffers in the Bush-era White House Office of Political Affairs violated the…
Ex-Bush speechwriter denounces right’s ‘paranoid narratives’ about Obama
Conservative David Frum on Sunday criticized some on the right for embracing “false and paranoid narratives” about President Barack Obama that he said were contributing to a toxic political climate. “The thing I worry about is not rhetoric. It’s the construction of paranoid narratives,” Frum, a former speechwriter for President…
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