The Scandal Sheet (of Bush's administration--34 big scandals in 4 years)

[Robbien]

This is by Peter Dizikes of Salon and the article is very much worth a click through of Salon's free day pass. Each of the scandels below is discussed and where the current status stands.

1. Memogate: The Senate Computer Theft
2. Doctor Detroit: The DOJ's Bungled Terrorism Case
3. Dark Matter: The Energy Task Force
4. The Indian Gaming Scandal
5. Halliburton's No-Bid Bonanza
6. Halliburton: Pumping Up Prices
7. Halliburton's Vanishing Iraq Money
8. The Halliburton Bribe-apalooza
9. Halliburton: One Fine Company
10. Halliburton's Iran End Run
11. Money Order: Afghanistan's Missing $700 Million Turns Up in Iraq
12. Iraq: More Loose Change
13. The Pentagon-Israel Spy Case
14. Gone to Taiwan
15. Wiretapping the United Nations
16. The Boeing Boondoggle
17. The Medicare Bibe Scandal (Smith)
18. Tom DeLay's PAC Problems
19. Tom DeLay's FAA: Following Americans Anywhere
20. In the Rough: Tom DeLay's Golf Fundraiser
21. Busy, Busy, Busy in New Hampshire (phone jamming)
22. The Medicare Money Scandal
23. The Bogus Medicare "Video News Release"
24. Pundits on the Payroll: The Armstrong Williams Case
25. Ground Zero's Unsafe Air
26. John Ashcroft's Illegal Campaign Contributions
27. Intel Inside ... The White House
28. Duck! Antonin Scalia's Legal Conflicts
29. AWOL
30. Iraq: The Case for War
31. Niger Forgeries: Whodunit?
32. In Plame Sight
33. Abu Ghraib
34. Guantánamo Bay Torture?

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/18/scandal/index.html

[tridim]

1. Another big one

35. The Pentagon's "lost" 2.3 trillion dollars.

[Booster]

4. This one I really don't understand; why can't there be hearings

on this? How can you have any kind of bookkeeping system in place and not be able to account for this amount of money, and why in the Hell doesn't anybody give a shit? This is the biggest theft in the history of the world, and all we do is say "oh, well, shit happens". God, wish I hadn't even opened this thread - now I'm royally pissed off the the entire day.

[ixion]

2. and not one, NOT ONE independent investigation along the magnitude

of whitewater, etc.


This is not a democracy, it's a sham.

[demosincebirth]

3. The repugs'll give an excuse for each and everyone of 'em

[In Truth We Trust]

5. What about the missing 350 tons of explosives or the 9/11 coverup ( lack

of doing due diligence in preventing- LIHOP,MIHOP).

WMD, "Flowers at our feet", Scalia-Cheney conflict of interest re: closed energy policy meetings, etc., etc. etc.,

The freaking list is unbelievable!

[wabeewoman]

6. I orginally starting keeping a list

in 2000-the first one should be the stolen election and how they manipulated the press-- wish I would have kept it up. It seemed like there was something new every day. There was the arsenic standards, clear sky and cut the forests to prevent forest fires. Maybe not scandals but they should have been-and would have been if Clinton had done it.