Young Bush Administration DHS Official Kept A "Sex Slave"

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Wednesday September 01, 2010 · 4:44 AM PDT

2010/09/01 · 04:44

Sometimes I really miss the Bush Administration, the antics of Scott Bloch, the graft, simply because it made such ridiculous reading. Well, looks like I've just been given a trip down memory lane...

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Thursday March 05, 2009 · 4:51 AM PST

2009/03/05 · 04:51

The new face of the Republican Party brings all the familiar elements to the table. Illegal use of campaign funds. Front companies. Cronyism. Links to those involved in treason. Oh yes, and hookers.

Over the past two weeks, we've learned that Michael Steele, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, failed Senate Candidate and now national GOP Chairman had some campaign funding irregularities back in 2005. The first tip came courtesy of the FBI, who had to admit that it is investigating Steele for finance improprieties during his ill-fated 2006 Senate bid. The second came yesterday as part of a Baltimore area TV station's investigation.

So just what have we learned?

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 9:00 PM PDT

2008/10/27 · 21:00

There have been many diaries written about "McCain-Palin volunteer" Ashley Todd. Many of them are spectacular, including the current recommended diary up by dworth.

We now know that Ashley was a College Republican National Committee (CRNC) paid staffer, covering the State of New York. And "volunteering" her spare time for McCain.

Ashley was one of about CRNC'ers out there, spreading the good word, doing some minor ratfuc*ing, and whining and complaining about Obama supporters.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 7:09 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 07:09

Let me offer up further proof that the Bush Administration may be firmly into lame duck terrirory - but still continues to drive the "dignity of the office" down, down, down.

It appears as though you can now use the White House Rose Garden, site of countless famous World events, for your own personal memories... Provided that the price is right - and that you use the Bush-Cheney campaign's favorite photographer to capture the moment.

(More after the jump...)

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Tuesday February 26, 2008 · 7:20 AM PST

2008/02/26 · 07:20

A quick drive-by diary on an important issue that just won't go away... the White House's apparently illegal mis-use and loss of e-mail.

Today, at 10 am, Henry Waxman will gavel in a meeting of the House Committee on Government Oversight. The subject? The two e-mail scandals at the White House. You know, the RNC accounts used by Karl Rove and senior White House staff to secretly communicate and bypass the government systems. And the "over 5 million emails 'lost' in the new Administration.

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Friday February 15, 2008 · 10:09 AM PST

2008/02/15 · 10:09

So the DNC says.

The Democratic Party asked a judge Thursday to order the disclosure of 68 pages of White House e-mails that the Bush administration is trying to keep secret.

The Democratic National Committee is suing the Justice Department over the firing of U.S. attorneys, seeking electronic messages by White House staffers who performed political duties on e-mail accounts of the Republican National Committee.

Dozens of White House staffers had RNC e-mail accounts and the Democratic Party is trying to determine the extent to which those accounts were used in the U.S. attorneys controversy.

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Tuesday February 12, 2008 · 12:48 PM PST

2008/02/12 · 12:48

We take a break from your nonstop election coverage to reflect on another victory for Melanie Sloan's Citizens For Responsibility in Washington (aka CREW).

A federal judge agreed Monday to allow a private group to delve into the operations of an office at the White House as part of a controversy over whether large amounts of e-mail have disappeared....

...The judge said she will allow Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to gather a "very limited" amount of information from the White House Office of Administration, which is in charge of preserving e-mail.

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Monday December 17, 2007 · 11:34 AM PST

2007/12/17 · 11:34

Or at least so sayeth Judge Royce Lamberth today in DC:

White House visitor logs are public documents, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a legal strategy that the Bush administration had hoped would get around public records laws.

The ruling is a blow to the Bush administration, which is fighting the release of records showing visits by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and prominent religious conservatives.

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Thursday December 06, 2007 · 11:34 AM PST

2007/12/06 · 11:34

The rhetoric/truthiness, 2003:

Scott McClellan:
White House spokesman Scott McClellan told CNN that in preparing for the speech, Navy officials on the carrier told Bush aides they wanted a "Mission Accomplished" banner, and the White House agreed to create it.

"We took care of the production of it," McClellan said. "We have people to do those things. But the Navy actually put it up."

George W. Bush:
"I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man** from my staff -- they weren't that ingenious, by the way," the president said Tuesday.

The reality/truth, 2007:

Dan Bartlett:
Me personally, [I regret] the "Mission Accomplished" banner. I wish I could have back the decision to sign off on that. I think the intent behind it to this day holds true. "Mission Accomplished" was the motto of the aircraft carrier that had just spent ten months in a war zone both in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we wanted to celebrate what they had done.

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Monday December 03, 2007 · 5:17 AM PST

2007/12/03 · 05:17

I'll let the Associated Press begin with the lede:

The Bush administration is laying out a new secrecy defense in an effort to end a court battle about the White House visits of now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

But in a court filing Friday night, administration lawyers said that the Secret Service has identified a category of highly sensitive documents that might contain information sought in a lawsuit about Abramoff's trips to the White House.

The Justice Department, citing a Cold War-era court ruling, declared that the contents of the "Sensitive Security Records" cannot be publicly revealed even though they could show whether Abramoff made more visits to the White House than those already acknowledged.

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Thursday November 01, 2007 · 10:40 AM PDT

2007/11/01 · 10:40

Take notice. It's on the record. Karl Rove has notes.

So when we spotted him at DeFrank's book party, we asked how his project was going. Rove told the Sleuth he has just begun unpacking boxes of notes to begin work on his tome about the Bush White House and presumably other facets of his life as the Republican Party's controversial top operative.

"The Sleuth" Washingtonpost.com blog by Mary Ann Akers, 10/30/07

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Tuesday October 30, 2007 · 7:28 AM PDT

2007/10/30 · 07:28

The House Judiciary Committee is now conducting a live hearing on the DOJ's Civil Rights Division's Voting Section.

The Voting Section has much been in the news lately, with allegations about interference in the 2004 Presidential election in Ohio which disenfranchised minority voters, disenfranchisement of minority voters in Georgia with ID requirements, internal discrimination against African-American employees and John Tanner's (the section head) belief that African-Americans die early.

What a circus.

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