I can't keep up with all the Bush administration SCANDALS - has anyone got a comprehensive list?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

I'm looking for an article or website that has all the scandals that the executive branch and the GOP are involved in. There are so many that I'm losing track. Please post it if you have one thanks!

[don954]

1. That would be a monumental feat

comparable only to putting together an encyclopedia galactica.... ;)

[whistle]

2. Is DU large enough to list them all? Here is a link to the first four years

<snip>
The scandal sheet
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.

By Peter Dizikes

Pages 1 2 3 4 5

January 18, 2005 | 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.

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


<on edit more links>

http://www.bidstrup.com/decency.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101301955.html

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration_scandals

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0523-03.htm

http://thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal

....you all can keep adding to this, my keyboard finger is tired
:yoiks: :hide:

[JuniperLea]

5. Here's a tidy list on Republicans in general

March 27, 2007: Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, "indicted on charges of defrauding investors and banks of $1.6 billion while chairman of Collins & Aikman Corp., an auto parts maker that collapsed days after he quit"

March 27, 2007: Criminal charges filed against Pennsylvania State Senator Robert Regola (R-Hempfield) in connection with the death of a teenage neighbor who was shot with the senator's gun; he is accused of three counts of perjury, allowing possession of a firearm by a minor, recklessly endangering another person and false swearing

March 23, 2007: Former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became an architect of George W. Bush's energy policies, pleads guilty to obstructing justice by lying to a Senate committee

March 8, 2007: Former U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich admits to extramarital affair

March 6, 2007: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (R-Dante's Inferno) found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury

January 29, 2007: Republican former Jefferson County, Colorado, Treasurer Mark Paschall indicted on two felony charges "in connection with an allegation that Paschall solicited a kickback from a bonus he awarded one of his employees"

January 23, 2007: Republican radio personality Scott Eller Cortelyou of Denver arrested on suspicion of using the Internet to lure a child into a sexual relationship

December 8, 2006: Alaska Republican State Representative Thomas Anderson indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of extortion, conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering

November 29, 2006: Washington-state Republican activist Larry Corrigan arrested "in an Internet sting for allegedly trying to arrange sex with a 13-year-old girl"

November 28, 2006: U.S. Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-San Diego) pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion, and a separate tax-evasion violation for failing to disclose income in 2004

November 12, 2006: Minnesota State Representative Mark Olson (R-Big Lake) arrested on suspicion of domestic abuse

October 14, 2006: Kurt Zuttermeister, Republican candidate for the Hawaii state House, arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and driving without a valid driver's license; it was his third drunk driving arrest since 1997 and he was found guilty in the earlier cases

October 13, 2006: Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH) pleads guilty to taking bribes in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal

October 4, 2006: U.S. Congressman Don Sherwood (R-PA) admits to cheating on his wife, though he denies having abused his mistress, which she has alleged

September 29, 2006: Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigns from the U.S. Congress following reports he sent sexually inappropriate e-mails to underage male congressional interns

September 27, 2006: Colorado Republican activist Randal D. "Randy" Ankeney arrested for "five counts of sexual assault on a child, three counts of sexual enticement of a child and one count of sexual exploitation of a child"

August 25, 2006: Shirley Ward, president of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, arrested on charges of voter fraud by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation

July 24, 2006: Republican Green Oaks, Illinois, Mayor Tom Adams charged with distributing child pornography over the Internet

July 20, 2006: Tennessee Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Albertini arrested on suspicion of public intoxication

May 11, 2006: Governor Ernie Fletcher (R-KY) indicted on three misdemeanor charges of conspiracy, official misconduct and political discrimination

April 19, 2006: Former North Carolina Republican Party Chair, Sam Currin, indicted on seven felony charges, including tax conspiracy, witness tampering and perjury

March 1, 2006: Matthew R. Sisk, a member of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, arrested for drunk driving

January 3, 2006: Republican mega-fundraiser Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials

December 16, 2005: James Tobin, regional political director to the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the 2002 election, convicted of "two telephone harassment charges for his role in a phone-jamming plot against New Hampshire Democrats on Election Day 2002"

October 27, 2005: Ohio Republican Party Fundraiser Tom Noe indicted for "allegedly making illegal campaign contributions using conduit contributors"

September 28, 2005: U.S. Congressman and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) indicted "on a conspiracy charge stemming from a long-running campaign finance investigation"

September 18, 2005: Republican Oswego, New York, Mayor John Gosek is "confined to his house after being arrested on a charge of using a telephone to solicit sex from a minor"

August 17, 2005: Republican Ohio Governor Bob Taft indicted on "four criminal misdemeanor counts for failing to report a series of golf outings, dinners and other gifts"

July 11, 2005: Kentucky's Republican Party chairman and two state officials indicted "on charges alleging they conspired to violate state personnel laws" - "Basil Turbyfill is in charge of filling political positions for Fletcher, and Bob Wilson is part of the governor's Personnel Cabinet. GOP Chairman Darrell Brock was director of local government in Fletcher's office before he took the party job this year."

May 19, 2005 (in PDF): Michael Tristano, former Chief of Staff to Illinois State Representative and House Republican Leader Lee A. Daniels (R-Elmhurst), indicted on federal fraud, theft and extortion conspiracy charges

September 21, 2004: Three aides to U.S. Congressman and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) indicted "on charges of illegally raising political funds from corporations in 2002, much of which was funneled into the Republican takeover of the Texas legislature" - the three indicted were DeLay political aide Jim Ellis, fundraiser Warren RoBold and John Colyandro, the executive director of DeLay's political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority

I wish I could find one purely on BushCo!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. look at those already in 2007! We're only at the beginning of April!

[JuniperLea]

9. I attribute that to the fact that...

Some of these people are actually being investigated now instead of being swept under the carpet! Of course the RWNutJobs will blame the Dems for going after people for nothing, completely ignoring the fact that the courts still have to weigh in and if there were no laws broken, like the Repubs always claim, their would be no action taken by the courts.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Thanks for these

I'm compiling

[Gregorian]

3. This might be worth something.

http://www.bushlies.net/

I don't think it's what you're looking for, but it's a list of some important ones.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Thanks!

great!

[Serial Mom]

4. We were thinking same thing just last week...

and thought we could come up with at least one scandal or outrageous comment a week since he took office!

Many may not be 'a scandal' per se, but are outrageous (definition: hideous: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice") just the same.

We wanted to add to the scandals list all the comments and lies he has made - the 'trifecta' thing, the 'as long as I was dictator' comment, the 'Bring Em On' comment, and the countless connections between 9/11 and Saddam, etc. And think about in the first month alone he stopped talks with Richard Clark about terrorism and stopped his secretary of state from talking/making progress with North Korea.

[Disturbed]

10. Does Congress have valid evidence to Impeach Bush & Cheney?

GW Bush- High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

1. "A Crime Against Peace." Initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no immediate threat to the U.S.--a war that has needlessly killed 2550 Americans and maimed and damaged over 20,000 more, while killing over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children, is the number one war crime according to the Nuremberg Charter, a document which was largely drawn up by American lawyers after World War II.

2. Lying and organizing a conspiracy to trick the American people and the U.S. Congress into approving an unnecessary and illegal war. This is defined as "A Conspiracy to Commit a Crime Against Peace" in the Nuremberg Charter, to which the U.S. is a signatory.

3. Approving and encouraging, in violation of U.S. and international law, the use of torture, kidnapping and rendering of prisoners of war captured in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the course of the so-called War on Terror. Note that the Hamdan decision actually declares Bush to have violated the Third Geneva Convention on Treatment of Prisoners of War, which means the justices are in effect calling the president a war criminal. Under U.S. and international law, if prisoners have died because of such a violation--and many have died in illegal US captivity because of torture authorized by this president--the penalty is death (a point made to the president in a warning memo written by his then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, the text of which is published in full in the appendix of our book).

4. Illegally stripping the right of citizenship and the protections of the Constitution from American citizens, denying them the fundamental right to have their cases heard in a court, to hear the charges against them, to be judged in a public court by a jury of their peers, and to have access to a lawyer.

5. Authorizing the spying on American citizens and their communications by the National Security Agency and other U.S. police and intelligence agencies, in violation of the First and Fourth Amendments and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

6. Obstructing investigation into and covering up knowledge of the deliberate exposing of the identity of a U.S. CIA undercover operative, and possibly conspiring in that initial outing itself.

7. Obstructing the investigation into the 9-11 attacks and lying to investigators from the Congress and the bi-partisan 9-11 Commission--actions that come perilously close to treason. (Former Florida Senator Bob Graham, who headed the Senate Intelligence Committee until his retirement at the end of 2002, has called this the president's most impeachable crime.)

8. Violating the due process and other constitutional rights of thousands of citizens and legal residents by rounding them up and disappearing or deporting them without hearings.

9. Abuse of power, undermining of the Constitution and violating the presidential oath of office by deliberately refusing to administer over 750 acts duly passed into law by the Congress--actions with if left unchallenged would make the Congress a vestigial body, and the president a dictator.

10. Criminal negligence in failing to provide American troops with adequate armor before sending them into a war of choice, criminal negligence in going to war against a weak, third-world nation without any planning for post war occupation and reconstruction, criminal negligence in failing to respond to a known and growing crisis in the storm-blasted city of New Orleans, and criminal negligence in failing to act, and in fact in actively obstructing efforts by other countries and American state governments, to deal with the looming crisis of global warming.

The Democrats’ Impeachment Road Map

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjVjM2M2N2U3ZjJlNTRiZmYzZjJkYzJiN2RlZGQyYjY=

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. Impeachment Road Map (lovely phrase!)

Thanks!!!!

Have we asked our members of Congress whether the President violated (your items 1 and 2)

[Forkboy]

11. It's not just that there's so many,but they go so deep.

It's hard to follow all the details.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. I think Henry Waxman and John Conyers are looking into the deep ones?

[Forkboy]

14. Yep...I think we'll be hearing much from them.