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		<title>387.  Political censorship at PBS</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/387-political-censorship-at-pbs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PBS engaged in censorship of a documentary on the Bush Administration&#8217;s involvement in torture. The documentary &#8220;Torturing Democracy&#8221; put together by Emmy award winning producer Sherry Jones was approved by PBS with the understanding that it would be ready for showing after May 2008. At that time, however, PBS informed Jones that it had no [...]]]></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>
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		<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>246. Peter Keisler (Civil Division Justice)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/246-peter-keisler-civil-division-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/246-peter-keisler-civil-division-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Keisler is another top DOJ official who is leaving, kind of. He was Assistant Attorney General and head of the DOJ&#8217;s Civil Division. In this position, Keisler fought the habeas corpus petitions of a group of ethnic Uighurs held at Guantanamo. Most of them had already been determined to be &#34;no longer enemy combatants&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>242. Breastfeeding campaign changed due to infant formula manufacturers‚ pressure</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/242-breastfeeding-campaign-changed-due-to-infant-formula-manufacturers%e2%80%9a-pressure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/242-breastfeeding-campaign-changed-due-to-infant-formula-manufacturers%e2%80%9a-pressure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Interference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When greed and special interests gang up against very small children . . . In early 2004, the International Formula Council (IFC), the lobbying organization for the infant formula industry, successfully changed an ad campaign (begun in 2003 and lasting to 2005) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which promoted breastfeeding. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>229. Attempted political interference in Oxycontin plea deal</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/229-attempted-political-interference-in-oxycontin-plea-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/229-attempted-political-interference-in-oxycontin-plea-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Interference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 24, 2006, the night before John Brownlee the US Attorney for the Western District of Virginia completed a plea bargain with Oxycontin manufacturer Purdue Pharma, he received a phone call from Michael Elston Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty who urged him to go slow. Elston was acting on behalf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>190. Thomas Barnett (Anti-trust Division Justice)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/190-thomas-barnett-anti-trust-division-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/190-thomas-barnett-anti-trust-division-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Interference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Barnett entered the DOJ&#8217;s antitrust division in April 2004 and became its head (assistant attorney general) on February 10, 2006. Barnett sent a memo to state prosecutors in May 2007 urging them to drop an investigation into a complaint by Google that Microsoft&#8217;s new Vista operating system slowed Google&#8217;s search engine in preference to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>188. James Holsinger (Anti-gay Surgeon General nominee)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/188-james-holsinger-anti-gay-surgeon-general-nominee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/188-james-holsinger-anti-gay-surgeon-general-nominee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 24, 2007 Bush nominates James Holsinger as the next Surgeon General.  Holsinger believes that homosexuality is a lifestyle not an orientation and that it is incompatible with Christian teaching.  The Surgeon General is described as the nation&#8217;s top health educator.
On July 10, 2007, Richard Carmona Surgeon General from 2002 to 2006 testified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>121. Election Assistance Commission (suppressed a report showing voter fraud was not a problem)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/121-election-assistance-commission-suppressed-a-report-showing-voter-fraud-was-not-a-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/121-election-assistance-commission-suppressed-a-report-showing-voter-fraud-was-not-a-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Interference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Election Assistance Commission which was created to do election research after the 2000 election debacle issued a December 2006 report which changed the conclusions of its experts and exaggerated the problem of voter fraud. Previously, the Commission released a report only under Congressional pressure that indicated that voter ID programs suppressed voter turnout among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>120. Scalia conflict of interest (his duck hunting trip with Cheney)</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/120-scalia-conflict-of-interest-his-duck-hunting-trip-with-cheney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/120-scalia-conflict-of-interest-his-duck-hunting-trip-with-cheney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia refuses to recuse himself from Cheney&#8217;s appeal of a Sierra Club lawsuit to keep records of his 2001 Energy Task Force secret. Shortly after SCOTUS agreed to take up the case, Scalia flew with Cheney on Jan. 5, 2004 on Air Force Two to Louisiana for a duck hunting trip. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>88. Bush&#8217;s ties to Enron</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/88-bushs-ties-to-enron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/88-bushs-ties-to-enron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.endordil.com/?p=420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bush connections to Enron and Ken Lay. Lay was connected to the elder Bush but helped finance the younger Bush&#8217;s gubernatorial campaign. In 2000 he was a Bush Pioneer, and gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the Republican convention and the Bush inaugural celebration. Through Enron, he also contributed more than a million [...]]]></description>
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