Other SCANDAL OVERLOAD sources:

[Hissyspit]

I posted this in proiowadem's Original Post "EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS. SCANDAL OVERLOAD." thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4110498&mesg_id=4110498

He has an EXTREMELY comprehensive list, and everyone has added much to it, (hfojvt added this site, for instance: http://www.hated.com/ ) but I had these other scandal list sources gathered up and so I thought I would throw them out there for everyone to doublecheck and cross-reference in our quest to keep track of all of the scandals, atrocities, corruptions, lies, double-standards, and hypocrisies of the * Administration.

Sorry for the length of this post and the redundancies with proiowadem's excellent list (nice outline!), but I figured we want to make sure our lists are as COMPREHENSIVE and complete as possible.
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First, a Salon.com article:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905D.shtml

The Scandal Sheet
By Peter Dizikes
Salon.com Tuesday 18 January 2005

"Print it out, send it to Harry Reid, or just read it and weep. Here are 34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency - every one of them worse than Whitewater.

Once upon a time - about five years ago - conservative pundits often talked about 'scandal fatigue.' Remember scandal fatigue? It was an affliction supposedly either turning voters against Democrats or, alternatively, a weariness in the body politic preventing Republicans from pursuing even more grievances against Bill Clinton. By any objective measure, however, after four years of George W. Bush's presidency, the entire nation should be suffering from utter scandal exhaustion.

- snip -

Indeed, here are 34 Republican scandals worthy of further attention, gathered into one place. The list focuses on scandals involving apparently illegal activity or violations of ethics codes. Not everything that is politically, legally or ethically scandalous constitutes a scandal. It is scandalous, for instance, that House Republicans have further weakened their own ethics committee. But that is not, properly speaking, a political scandal. It is just contemptible governance.

This list is also limited to events of the past four years, or those coming to light in that time. It covers both the executive branch and the Congress, since the latter, especially the Senate, is increasingly a mere adjunct to the White House. However, the items are not arranged in terms of moral or historical gravity. Abu Ghraib might create years of anti-American hatred abroad, but it and some other headline-generating events appear near the end of the list, to help familiarize readers first with lesser-known or now-overlooked scandals. Recall how John Ashcroft broke the law? Know why Dick Cheney wants to keep those energy task force documents secret? Read on. You too, Harry Reid.

1) Memogate: The Senate Computer Theft"

MORE AT LINK


Then, the "original" scandal list? Probably not, but here is an 2004 'Crisis Papers' article: "Scandals for Dummies"

http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/dummies-scandals.htm

Bush's 2004 Scandals for Dummies
By Bernard Weiner
The Crisis Papers
Tuesday 08 June 2004

"There are so many Bush Administration scandals and so little time to figure them all out. So I checked in with the franchised book series that succinctly provides clear answers for confused dummies like me.

Q. Why are all these scandals seeming to come at the same time? Am I imagining this? Is it a liberal media conspiracy?

A. No, you're not imagining it. And there's no conspiracy involved. It's a phenomenon not at all surprising. Here's how it works:

Many of the Bush scandals aren't new at all; they've been brewing for a long time, with the White House trying to push them off until after Election Day. But scandals, like viruses, erupt on their own schedules."

MORE AT LINK


More recently, various scandals from Adenoid_Hinkel's DU post "so, REALLY, how many scandals HAS this administration had by now?" from July 11.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4077092

"Plame outing
gannon
Downing street minutes
niger/yellowcake speech
Haliburton no bid contracts
WMD lies
ignoring 9-11 warnings
abu ghraib/prison abuse
enron ties
flying bin laden's out of country
California energy crisis/cheney task force
2000 election theft
and more and more and more

at this point, how can anyone, even the biggest freeper, honestly believe that these guys have 'restored honor and integrity to the white house' and that every one of these is either 1. a liberal media conspiracy to git the pres'dent! or 2. the work of a lone lowly white house staffer and no one else and not the result of any higher ups?

how much effort does it take to maintain this fantasy world? i know guys like rush and hannity know it's a sham and don't believe it, but are simply lying-but what about your average republican voter---

what the hell is wrong with them at this point?!?!?!"


Finally, a good response to that original DU thread by wicasa:

"A few you missed.

- The utter disregard of the balance of the scientific community on:
(1) Global warming. ( and the related rejection of the Kyoto Treaty without even offering an alternative)
(2) The environmental and health effects of mercury pollution from coal and the inadequacies of the policies of his administration to address it.
(3) The environmental effects of his forestry programs.
(4) The effect of repetitive motions in causing certain work related disabilities.

- The utter disregard of the opinions of the bulk of the diplomatic corps and the state department on matters of international policy.

- The utter disregard of the opinions of most of the world with regard to matters of international policy.

- The utter disregard of the bulk of the economic community with regard to the long term effects of his tax cuts.

- The utter disregard of the American Bar Association opinions as tot he qualifications of candidates for judicial office (unless, of course they recommended that the particular candidate under discussion was qualified.

- Lying with regard to the justifications of "No child left behind" and then his failure to support funding for it.

- Innumerable campaign lies, and the failure to acknowledge when his supporters were caught in lies.

- How can we forget "Mission Accomplished" and the lies as to how that banner came to be displayed and the supposed necessity to fly to the Carrier on an airplane?"

[madeline_con]

1. A comment...

The two groups, Dems and Repugs, are polar opposites. What disgusts and saddens a Dem makes a Repug dance with glee.

There's a certain personality type who enjoys "kickin' ass and takin' names" because in their own lives, they feel powerless.

The more violent and bloody the battle against the perceived threat, the better. It doesn't matter if the perceived threat has done anything, they've found someone they can take out their frustrations on.

We can see this at home in the brutal attacks on the left. Anything that doesn't parrot the admin's bloodlust and greed is looked upon as something weak, that threatens to destroy their fantasy of machismo, that must be destroyed.

Just a comment...

[Hissyspit]

2. Yes, much of this is NOT scandal at all to people like that....

But that's not American ideals, it's just authoritarianism and bullying.

[wli]

3. the non-criminal numbers are staggering

1. 2000 election fraud
2. 2000 Supreme Court decision regarding the 2000 presidential election
3. 9/11 ISI payments and coverup
4. FEMA 9/11 coverup
5. FBI 9/11 coverup
6. 9/11 commission coverup
7. John O'Neill death (FBI counterterrorism chief investigating Osama bin Laden)
8. Sibel Edmonds 9/11 coverup
9. 9/11 boardroom meeting with bin Laden family
10. numerous police brutality incidents at anti-WTO demonstrations
11. imprisoning 88-year-old nun at School of the Americas protest
12. continued existence of School of the Americas
13. "Guantanamo on the Hudson" and other detention camps for US citizens
14. "Free Speech Zones" in violation of first amendment
15. allegations of provocateurs used as pretexts to disrupt peaceful demonstrations
16. infiltration of peaceful political groups
17. numerous left-leaning politically active persons on no-fly-lists
18. racial profiling
19. state-sponsored anti-Islamic hate speech
20. "nation ending" and/or "eliminationist" bull
21. Mazar-i-Sharif
22. Tora Bora bin Laden escape fiasco
23. Brits find nothing in Afghan caves whatsoever
24. Guantanamo prisoner treatment
25. Jose Padilla fiasco
26. Chavez assassination attempts
27. Australian Guantanamo detainee
28. Holocaust denial/advocacy fiasco during Bush Auschwitz tour
29. secret prison allegations
30. prison ship allegations
31. Guantanamo prisoners were paid for
32. numerous innocent victims of abduction among Guantanamo prisoners
33. underage Guantanamo prisoners
34. Abduction of Gladio-related Italian mullah
35. Secret "renditions"
36. Tactics used on prisoners for transport during "rendition" (in particular, sedative suppositories, hooding, and shackling, where sedative suppositories are particularly offensive)
37. Fallujah chemical weapons allegations
38. numerous Iraq civilian massacre allegations
39. purported terrorist attacks in Iraq fit description of attacks on civilians used during the Vietnam war
40. massive underfunding and understaffing of Afghan occupation
41. Afghan opium production
42. use of depleted uranium
43. leak related to London bombing
44. 2004 election fraud
45. coingate
46. Enron campaign contributions
47. Downing St. Memos
48. Leo Strauss/Michael Ledeen connections
49. Custer Battles fiasco
50. numerous suspected assassinations and/or suspicious deaths (far too numerous to enumerate, try the Bush body count for a rather skimpy partial list).
51. evidence of psyops used against US citizens (military officer's paper)
52. allegations of exerting undue influence in elections in countries surrounding the Caspian Sea
53. Traceable Nazi heritage/affiliation of numerous persons in the regime
54. PNAC/AEI
55. Cabinet members serving repeatedly under different administrations from Nixon onward
56. Alleged falsification and/or misrepresentation of economic data
57. Ward Churchill fiasco
58. group of Nobel Prize -winning scientists alleges exertion of undue influence on scientific research (centering on whether results advancing political goals).
59. anti-McCain whisper campaign
60. appointing Negroponte, tainted by Iran-Contra
61. nuclear proliferation
62. "unsigning" ICC-related treaty signed by Clinton
63. public and official sanction of torture
64. unconstitutional withdrawal from treaties by executive order
65. Hague invasion act
66. Boykin's declaration that Bush was appointed by God
67. pre-9/11 "New Pearl Harbor" statements from PNAC and other sources
68. innumerable gross violations of the separation of church and state
69. Vatican support-seeking fiasco
70. Pope John Paul II feared Bush was the antichrist
71. Mary Cheney vs. GOP anti-gay platform
72. manipulation of terrorism threat system to distract from DNC
73. Ashcroft's covering of nude statues
74. denials of global warming's existence
75. Wolfowitz IMF leadership
76. Purported infiltration of Vatican by "fifth column" of bishops.
77. Bush dictatorship comments
78. Tommy Franks martial law comments
79. nuclear 9/11 v2.0 psyop/rumormongering
80. Aristide kidnapping
81. Papa Bush meeting daily with CIA
82. exertion of undue influence by CPA over Iraqi government
83. Smear campaign vs. Ahmedinejad
84. Iranian election interference attempt
85. Unocal/Taliban connections
86. rejected offer of surrender (including voluntarily stepping down from office) by Saddam prior to invasion of Iraq
87. rejected offer by Taliban to extradite bin Laden prior to invasion
88. 1984 term "Big Brother" used in military papers
89. coverup/spin of maimed/crippled soldiers
90. Nick Berg video recording very likely fabricated
91. highly offensive slavery-related gaffes during African tour
92. numerous former generals and former CIA chiefs denouncing Iraq war
93. World Tribunal on Iraq denunciations
94. Germany denounces Rumsfeld
95. Austria denounces Schwarzenegger
96. China's assessment of US human rights record indicates serious human rights problems introduced during Bush II's reign
97. prisoner-trading exposed by Russian Muslim (exchanged from Chechens, to Russians, to Uzbeks, to Americans)
98. Wackenhut detainee extortion fiasco
99. NORTHCOMM arrangements violate sovereignty of Canada and Mexico
100. "drills" identical to terrorists attacks used both during 9/11 and 7/7

And many, many more. This is just off the top of my head. Anyone else?