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Eight Years Ago Today: Bush’s Broken Promise
Crooks and Liars — ... Plamegate, the Libby pardon, the Abramoff affair, doctoring scientific reports, the end of habeas corpus, detainee torture, the politically-motivated firings of U.S. attorneys, illegal domestic surveillance, the theory of the unitary executive and the unprecedented assertion of executive privilege all show a President committed to doing neither what is legal nor right. And then, of course, there’s Iraq. How fitting then that Bush’s would-be Republican successor John McCain, the man who promised to run a “respectful” campaign, chose this ...

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Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda — ... the beginning. Plamegate, the Libby pardon, the Abramoff affair, doctoring scientific reports, the end of habeas corpus, detainee torture, the politically-motivated firings of U.S. attorneys, illegal domestic surveillance, the theory of the unitary executive and the unprecedented assertion of executive privilege all show a President committed to doing neither what is legal nor right. And then, of course, there’s Iraq. How fitting then that Bush’s would-be Republican successor John McCain, the man who promised to run a “respectful” campaign, chose this week to ...