Attn: DU researchers/news hounds: Need help with list of articles

Okay researchers and expert news hounds, I have a project for you. I have a request from a budding book author (not related to BBV) but is very important.

I am looking for references, links, even recollections from memory on news articles, speeches, policy decisions, information links, etc. that illustrate the rash of disinformation coming from the White House. Big stuff and small stuff.

The qualifier for such articles are stories that make people in this community say: What in the world are they up to? And things that cause the hair to stand up on our necks whether it is the policy itself that throws us off or whether big chunks of obviously relevant information is missing.

One big example is that leak about the air marshals being pulled from overnight flights days after an alleged threat by terrorists to pull a 9-11 stunt.

So, if you have links or copies of articles or can remember specific stories that gave you pause, can you provide those to me here? A skeleton outline of what I am looking for follows:

A. Alarming news reported by “unnamed senior white house officials…..” No names……just some really alarming news…

B. IMPORTANT policy decisions reported by “unnamed senior white house officials…..”

C. Wild stories that are LEAKED. Usually its bad news for the administration like pulling armed air marshals from international flights at a time when a direct threat has been received via chatter.

D. Stories where the white house or anyone else reports something big on the front page one day…..then debunks it on a back page in 5 font! LOL (there are MILLIONS of these…..and they are usually the source of “unnamed white admin officials” interesting enough.)

E. Really any reports or press releases or speeches by the White House that just doesn’t jive with either known facts or existing policies or is just “off the mark” in terms of “are they for real?”

I appreciate your help.

...in the old DU v.1 Bush & Conservatives forum. You should find plenty of material there. (And elsewhere in DU v.1.)

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Anger Management Course: Lie is too strong a word
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JustOneMinuteBio
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Category: Society > Issues > ... > Anthrax > Incidents
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The Cultural Elite
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... of hydrogen gas to fill balloons." Unnamed British Weapons ... of the Union speech." Unidentifed, Senior Administration Official ... Bush did not create the Iraqi WMD ...
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robertscheer
... Death," which reported, based on unnamed military sources ... report Sunday, "Expected intelligence from senior captured Iraqis ... Friedman puts it, "Mr. Bush doesn't ...
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Virtopia: An Impractical Simulation of Social Improvement
... trailers, however, and within two weeks, unnamed US intelligence ... David Obey, D-Wis., senior Democrat on the ... that they can attack us there," Bush told reporters ...
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Political Strategy: A War Plan for Aggressive Progressives
... 10 over its story that an unnamed source, now ... 6, when Bush followed Powell's presentation with comments of ... 'Senior members of Iraqi intelligence and Al Qaeda ...
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... is if CBS claims that the unnamed sources do ... to NATO, although not right away, a senior Bush administration official ... We all know of Bush's rugged determination. ...
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DA : OI The Bush Administration and WMD:
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Suburban Guerrilla
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eggy.blog-city.com
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BH Rosenberg's Campaign regarding Dr. Hatfill
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Carpe Datum: June 2003 Archives
... the good efforts of AmeriCorps and Senior Corps to ... Why are unnamed White House sources given any credibility ... Under George W. Bush, though, the deal is breaking ...
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=1033&forum=DCForumID62&omm=0

This has to do with Halliburton, The Defense Policy Board etc.

Thank you very much! I've devoted so much of my time to the BBV issue, I've missed all these articles.

I don't post much on those threads due to my poor tech understanding but I always read them. Thanks. :thumbsup:

The link I'm providing is to The Memory Hole because I think they do a GREAT job of pointing out the blatant ridiculousness of *'s lie ... their site will provide you with several links documenting their story.


<snip>

Bush Flatly Declares No Connection Between Saddam and al Qaeda

>>> During one of his rare press conferences, President Bush admitted something which completely contradicts what we've been hearing from him, most other politicians, and the mainstream media. Not surprisingly, the media have completely ignored this; I couldn't find a single article that mentions it in any news source, domestic or foreign.

The occasion was a press conference with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, which took place in the White House on 31 January 2003. Here's the key portion:


One question for you both. Do you believe that there is a link between Saddam Hussein, a direct link, and the men who attacked on September the 11th?

THE PRESIDENT: I can't make that claim.

THE PRIME MINISTER: That answers your question.

<snip>



One quick note: A link is provided for an independent.co.uk article where Blair again states that there is no Iraq regime / al Qaeda link but you can't access the article anymore (unless you pay for it). However, you can read the full text of the article at truthout.org.

Does the press EVER call them on anything anymore? If it wasn't for DU, few of us would have an inkling of the truth.

White House Angered at Plan For Pentagon Disinformation
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White House lied about threat to Air Force One
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US Department of State/IIP - Iraq: Official Texts
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Secrecy and Security News, February 2002
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AlterNet: Desert Storm Disinformation
... of Operation Just Cause after President Bush twice questioned ... During White House and Pentagon briefings about the invasion, officials misled reporters ...
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THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Karen M. Hult
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The Other War Room
President Bush doesn't believe in polling---just ask his pollsters.

By Joshua Green

On a Friday afternoon late last year, press secretaries from every recent administration gathered in the Ward Room of the White House at the invitation of Ari Fleischer, press secretary to President Bush. There was no agenda. It was just one of those unexpectedly nice things that seemed to transpire during the brief period after September 11 when people thought of themselves as Americans first and Democrats and Republicans second. Over a lunch of crab cakes and steak, Republicans such as Fleischer and Marlin Fitzwater traded war stories with Joe Lockhart, Mike McCurry, and assorted other Democrats. Halfway through lunch, President Bush dropped by unexpectedly and launched into an impromptu briefing of his own, ticking off the items on his agenda until he arrived at the question of whether it was preferable to issue vague warnings of possible terrorist threats or to stay quietly vigilant so as not to alarm people. At this point, former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers piped up, "What do the poll numbers say?" All eyes turned to Bush. Without missing a beat, the famous Bush smirk crossed the president's face and he replied, "In this White House, Dee Dee, we don't poll on something as important as national security."

This wasn't a stray comment, but a glimpse of a larger strategy that has served Bush extremely well since he first launched his campaign for president---the myth that his administration doesn't use polling. As Bush endlessly insisted on the campaign trail, he governs "based upon principle and not polls and focus groups."

It's not hard to understand the appeal of this tactic. Ever since the Clinton administration's well-noted excesses---calling on pollsters to help determine vacation spots and family pets---polling has become a kind of shorthand for everything people dislike about Washington politics. "Pollsters have developed a reputation as Machiavellian plotters whose job it is to think up ways to exploit the public," says Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Announcing that one ignores polls, then, is an easy way of conveying an impression of leadership, judgment, and substance. No one has recognized and used this to such calculated effect as Bush. When he announced he would "bring a new tone to Washington," he just as easily could have said he'd banish pollsters from the White House without any loss of effect. One of the most dependable poll results is that people don't like polling.

But in fact, the Bush administration is a frequent consumer of polls, though it takes extraordinary measures to appear that it isn't. This administration, unlike Clinton's, rarely uses poll results to ply reporters or congressional leaders for support. "It's rare to even hear talk of it unless you give a Bush guy a couple of drinks," says one White House reporter. But Republican National Committee filings show that Bush actually uses polls much more than he lets on, in ways both similar and dissimilar to Clinton. Like Clinton, Bush is most inclined to use polls when he's struggling. It's no coincidence that the administration did its heaviest polling last summer, after the poorly received rollout of its energy plan, and amid much talk of the "smallness" of the presidency. A Washington Monthly analysis of Republican National Committee disbursement filings revealed that Bush's principal pollsters received $346,000 in direct payments in 2001. Add to that the multiple boutique polling firms the administration regularly employs for specialized and targeted polls and the figure is closer to $1 million. That's about half the amount Clinton spent during his first year; but while Clinton used polling to craft popular policies, Bush uses polling to spin unpopular ones---arguably a much more cynical undertaking.

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On the last day of February, the Bush administration kicked off its renewed initiative to privatize Social Security in a speech before the National Summit on Retirement Savings in Washington, D.C. Rather than address "Social Security," Bush opted to speak about "retirement security." And during the brief speech he repeated the words "choice" (three times), "compound interest" (four times), "opportunity" (nine times) and "savings" (18 times). These words were not chosen lightly. The repetition was prompted by polls and focus groups. During the campaign, Steeper honed and refined Bush's message on Social Security (with key words such as "choice," "control," and "higher returns"), measuring it against Al Gore's attack through polls and focus groups ("Wall Street roulette," "bankruptcy" and "break the contract"). Steeper discovered that respondents preferred Bush's position by 50 percent to 38 percent, despite the conventional wisdom that tampering with Social Security is political suicide. He learned, as he explained to an academic conference last February, that "there's a great deal of cynicism about the federal government being able to do anything right, which translated to the federal government not having the ability to properly invest people's Social Security dollars." By couching Bush's rhetoric in poll-tested phrases that reinforced this notion, and adding others that stress the benefits of privatization, he was able to capitalize on what most observers had considered to be a significant political disadvantage. (Independent polls generally find that when fully apprised of Bush's plan, including the risks, most voters don't support it.)

This is typical of how the Bush administration uses polls: Policies are chosen beforehand, polls used to spin them. Because many of Bush's policies aren't necessarily popular with a majority of voters, Steeper and van Lohuizen's job essentially consists of finding words to sell them to the public. Take, for instance, the Bush energy plan. When administration officials unveiled it last May, they repeatedly described it as "balanced" and "comprehensive," and stressed Bush's "leadership" and use of "modern" methods to prevent environmental damage. As Time magazine's Jay Carney and John Dickerson revealed, van Lohuizen had poll-tested pitch phrases for weeks before arriving at these as the most likely to conciliate a skeptical public. (Again, independent polls showed weak voter support for the Bush plan.) And the "education recession" Bush trumpeted throughout the campaign? Another triumph of opinion research. Same with "school choice," the "death tax," and the "wealth-generating private accounts" you'll soon hear more about when the Social Security debate heats up. Even the much-lauded national service initiative Bush proposed in his State of the Union address was the product of focus grouping. Though publicly Bush prides himself on never looking in the mirror (that's "leadership"), privately, he's not quite so secure. His pollsters have even conducted favorability ratings on Ari Fleischer and Karen Hughes.

Much Much More....

This author came to me because of the reputation of DUers as some of the best and fastest researchers on the internet.

Needless to say, you have shown, once again, how well deserved that reputation is.

Take a bow, DU!!!!!

This is an article written by Iraqi exile in regard to WMD, basically discredits US version of Hussein Kamel's confession of Iraqs possesion of WMD. Has a link to HK interview.
http://www.globalsearch.ca/articles/KHA304A.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KHA304.html

... is:

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/index.html

One can't forget 9/11 as one of the major stories flip-flopped by the administration over time, if only because it ties into so many other stories.

Cheers.