The president wanted to make sure appropriate action is being taken . . .

Rumsfeld has not read an internal Army report that spelled out abuses at one prison in Iraq, officials said Monday, (bullshit) although they said he has kept abreast of the allegations that Iraqi prisoners have been mistreated.

Rumsfeld has been publicly silent on the controversy since it began when the CBS News' 60 Minutes II broadcast photographs taken by U.S. military guards inside the Abu Ghraib prison last fall. (What can he say that won't reveal that he gave tacit approval when he visited the prison)

The White House, mindful of the fallout, said Mr. Bush had called Rumsfeld before leaving on a campaign trip Monday and checked on the status of the Defense Department investigation. (To get their stories in line)

"The president wanted to make sure appropriate action is being taken against those responsible for these shameful and appalling acts," said spokesman Scott McClellan.
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'Action' on abuses so far by Bush:


President George W. Bush ordered the White House staff Tuesday to cooperate fully with a Justice Department investigation into the leak of the identity of a CIA operative. Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft, said he had no plans to name a special counsel to conduct the inquiry.

"The president has directed the White House to cooperate fully," said the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan. "The president wants to get to the bottom of this."
http://www.iht.com/articles/111952.html
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"It's going to take time to find them," Bush said of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Speaking before hundreds of cheering workers, an enormous U.S. flag and five tanks with guns pointed skyward, he added: "But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth."
http://www.johnworldpeace.com/e030426a.htm
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President Bush pledged anew Friday that Osama bin Laden will be taken "dead or alive," no matter how long it takes, amid indications that the suspected terrorist may be bottled up in a rugged Afghan canyon. The president, in an Oval Office meeting with Thailand's prime minister, would not predict the timing of bin Laden's capture but said he doesn't care how the suspect is brought to justice. "I don't care, dead or alive — either way," Bush said. "It doesn't matter to me."

"I don't know whether we're going to get him tomorrow or a month from now or a year from now. I don't really know. But we're going to get him," the president said. "The American people must understand that I have no timetable in mind. There's no — I don't have a calendar that says, 'Gosh, if he's not gotten by this certain moment, then I'll be disappointed."'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/12/14/bush-binladen.htm
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September 20, 2001

Tonight, we face new and sudden national challenges. We will come together to improve air safety, to dramatically expand the number of air marshals on domestic flights, and take new measures to prevent hijacking. We will come together to promote stability and keep our airlines flying, with direct assistance during this emergency. (Applause.)

We will come together to give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home. (Applause.) We will come together to strengthen our intelligence capabilities to know the plans of terrorists before they act, and find them before they strike. (Applause.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html


May 23, 2002

President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11.

Mr. Bush said the matter should be dealt with by congressional intelligence committees.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml


November 27, 2002

"I hope that the commission will act quickly and issue its report prior to the 18-month deadline embodied in the legislation, Bush said at the signing of the 9-11 commission bill. After all, if there's changes that need to be made, we need to know them as soon as possible, for the security of our country. The sooner we have the commission's conclusions, the sooner this administration will act on them.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/11/20021127-1.html


Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2003

Sources tell TIME that the White House brushed off a request quietly made last week by the 9-11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean, the Republican former governor of New Jersey, to boost his budget by $11 million. Kean had sought the funding as part of the $75 billion supplemental spending bill that the president just requested to pay for war with Iraq.

"This is very counterproductive if the White House's intention is to prevent the commission from being politicized, because it will look like they have something to hide," said a Republican member of the commission.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html


Mar. 09, 2004

- President Bush will answer privately all questions raised by a federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the White House said Tuesday, softening its insistence that Bush's testimony be limited to an hour.

"Nobody's watching the clock," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.

Still, he said an hour was "a reasonable period of time to set aside for a sitting president of the United States." The White House and the commission are working on a date for the meeting with Bush. The commission urged Bush to meet with all of its members, not just the chairman and vice chairman.


April 30, 2004

Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney answered questions from the commissioners for more than three hours.

The president dismissed suggestions that he appeared before the panel with Cheney to coordinate stories.

"If we had something to hide, we wouldn't have met with them in the first place," Bush said. "We answered all their questions."

Bush said it was important for him and Cheney to appear together so that commission members could "see our body language... how we work together."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/29/bush.911.commission/index.ht...


The Justice Department has also posted documents on its Web site critical of Jamie Gorelick, a Democratic on the commission

"That's what the Justice Department did; we were not involved in it," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. "The president does not believe we ought to be pointing finger during this time period."
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More obstruction:


July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Deputy U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley accepted blame for failing to remove from the president's State of Union speech references to Iraq's attempt to buy uranium in Africa.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aFgQ103BArtY&refer=uk

The forged documents that led Bush to inaccurately claim that Iraq had sought to purchase uranium from Niger are under investigation by a Senate committee and the FBI.

http://www.hillnews.com/marshall/030404.aspx
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December 25, 2003

CIA Director George Tenent is claiming responsibility for a line in Bush's State of the Union speech that alleged Iraq was trying to buy uranium, which could be used to make a nuclear weapon, from Africa.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/11/sprj.irq.main/
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August 26, 2003;

The White House collaborated heavily with corporations in developing President Bush's energy policy but repeatedly refused to give congressional investigators details of the meetings, according to a federal report issued yesterday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A44891-2003Aug25¬Found=true
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December 17, 2003;

The Federal Election Commission has determined that Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's unsuccessful 2000 Senate reelection campaign violated election laws by accepting $110,000 in illegal contributions from a committee Ashcroft had established to explore running for president.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6339-2003Dec16¬Found=true
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October 22, 2003;

The Pentagon is launching a formal investigation into statements by a high-ranking Army officer that cast the U.S. fight against terrorists in religious terms, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced yesterday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A61301-2003Oct21¬Found=true
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Investigations into Halliburton (Dick Cheney's former company) and Enron (George Bush's biggest corporate supporter).

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=29636
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March 25, 2004

There are two ongoing probes related to Medicare, which Bush made his top domestic legislative priority last year.

First, Health and Human Services Inspector General Dara Corrigan is looking into whether Bush administration officials committed wrongdoing by withholding from Congress key data about the cost of the Medicare bill.

Second, the General Accounting Office (GAO) is investigating the legality of White House video news releases touting Medicare’s new prescription-drug benefit.

http://www.thehill.com/news/032504/complaints.aspx
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Appropriate action? Mr. Bush, you're fired.


Many good leads from (and thanks to) The Carpetbagger Report:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/001421.html

Me Book

it is called Plausible Deniabilty

He likes it when she reads to him.

has a price. Bush will soon pay dearly for all his adventures on our dime.

...impeachment and trial for crimes against humanity. That's Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell and as many BushCo operatives as there are stinking up this country.

precluding such action any time soon.

I meant his credibility is Toast and come Nov, he will be also.