The former United States president, George HW Bush, waged a secret campaign over several months early in 2006 to remove secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld. The elder Bush went so
When new Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki unveiled his government on 20 May 2006, five months after his country's elections, and was unable to appoint ministers of defence
Political manipulation and personal rivalry that both reflects and reinforces scandalous policy failure: Sidney Blumenthal dissects the saga of the CIA in the "war on terror" years.
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The urgent dispatch of Karl Rove to the business of maintaining one-party rule in the mid-term elections in November 2006 is the Bush White House's belated startle reflex
President Bush has been in search of himself for two and a half years. His voyage of self-discovery began on 30 September 2003. Asked what he knew about senior White
On the eve of the third anniversary 20 March 2003 of the invasion of Iraq, President Bush began the fourth of his series of speeches in his second term attempting
Republicans representative of their permanent establishment have recently and quietly sent emissaries to President Bush, like diplomats to a foreign ruler isolated in his forbidden city, to probe whether he
In the original account authorised by United States vice-president Dick Cheney of his shooting of Harry Whittington, given by Katharine Armstrong, heiress and hunting companion, to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times
The most significant and memorable statements in President Bush's lacklustre State of the Union address, the phrases that most clearly and succinctly captured the state of his presidency
Hardly anyone in the Republican Party, in Congress or at the White House, seems to recall ever having met Jack Abramoff. Collective amnesia has suddenly descended upon the capital. The
New ranges of secret government are emerging from the fog of war. The latest disclosure, by the New York Times, of domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency performed by
President Bush's explanations of why he is justified in ordering domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency have shifted with every news cycle. He has sent out attorney-general