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		<title>391.  The Bureau of Land Management and shady deals in Utah again</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/11/391-the-bureau-of-land-management-and-shady-deals-in-utah-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Land Management is set to open public lands to drilling near 3 National Parks in Utah.  Bypassing usual input from the Parks Service which would delay the process into the next Administration, the BLM will auction leases in the area on December 19, 2008.  Consider it a parting gift by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>382. More corruption in the government’s oil leasing programs</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/382-more-corruption-in-the-government%e2%80%99s-oil-leasing-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/382-more-corruption-in-the-government%e2%80%99s-oil-leasing-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the 2008 election, Republicans pushed oil drilling in offshore deepwater areas and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).  Such drilling would do little to alleviate our country&#8217;s long term energy needs.  Oil companies already hold millions of acres under lease which they have not developed.  Nor are there oil rigs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>374. Selling off the country’s roads</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/374-selling-off-the-country%e2%80%99s-roads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/374-selling-off-the-country%e2%80%99s-roads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-candidate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an August 29, 2006 speech, Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy Tyler Duvall laid out the rationale to privatize the country&#8217;s infrastructure, especially its roads:
The reasons are obvious: infrastructure (in transportation, we are talking about highways, airports, seaports, railroads and pipelines, primarily) as an asset class, particularly in the U.S., offers very stable long-run returns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>370. Renting public officials to pay for the Bush Library</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/370-renting-public-officials-to-pay-for-the-bush-library/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/370-renting-public-officials-to-pay-for-the-bush-library/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=1011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A July 13, 2008 investigative report in the British Sunday Times related that Stephen Payne, lobbyist, Bush fundraiser, member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, whom Bush has known for 20 years was offering to sell meetings with Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley, and John Negroponte for between $600,000 and $750,000.  The scam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>346. No Child Left Behind’s Reading First boondoggle</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/346-no-child-left-behind%e2%80%99s-reading-first-boondoggle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/346-no-child-left-behind%e2%80%99s-reading-first-boondoggle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading First is a centerpiece of George Bush&#8217;s No Child Left Behind program and $6 billion has been spent on it.  Its purpose was to increase children&#8217;s understanding of what they read in grades 1-3.
A June 22, 2006 report of the Education Department&#8217;s Inspector General found rampant mismanagement and conflicts of interest.  16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>333. Government by contractor</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/333-government-by-contractor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/333-government-by-contractor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Incompetence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A June 2007 report of the House Committee on Oversight (Waxman Committee) found that discretionary spending had grown from $614.8 billion in 2000 to $1 trillion in 2006.  Of this, spending on procurement rose from $203.1 billion in 2000 to $412.1 billion in 2006, representing an average annual increase of 12.6% as compared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>324. In the bag at the SEC</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/324-in-the-bag-at-the-sec/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/324-in-the-bag-at-the-sec/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspector General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Interference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whistleblower]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2004-2005 Gary Aguirre led a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into insider trading involving hedge funds and investment banks.  Basically, the investment banks made large profits from commissions from hedge funds and in return tipped off these funds ahead of ordinary investors on lucrative deals about to be announced to the markets. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>309. John Bolton, International Man of Disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/309-john-bolton-international-man-of-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/309-john-bolton-international-man-of-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-candidate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WMD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Bolton is often seen as that crazy guy with the funny moustache who was our UN Ambassador for a while.  He was a lot more.  Before his tenure as UN Ambassador from August 1, 2005 to December 9, 2006 in a recess appointment, he was Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>299. US Attorney Chris Christie steering contracts</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/299-us-attorney-chris-christie-steering-contracts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/299-us-attorney-chris-christie-steering-contracts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politicization of the DOJ]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Christie  the US Attorney for New Jersey and former Bush Pioneer (see item 112) steered no bid contracts to monitor legal settlements to former Bush and state Republican officials.  In the business friendly Bush Administration settlements have been favored over indicting corporations involved in wrongdoing.  Christie gave one 18 month contract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>279. Stacking the Commission on Civil Rights with Republicans</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/279-stacking-the-commission-on-civil-rights-with-republicans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/279-stacking-the-commission-on-civil-rights-with-republicans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-candidate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cronyism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Evisceration of the US Commission on Civil Rights.  By law, no more than half of the commission&#8217;s 8 members can belong to any one party.  A December 6, 2004 DOJ memo to then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales opined that party affiliation meant only the nominee&#8217;s party registration at the time of their [...]]]></description>
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