All Posts Tagged With: "Bush administration"
Oh, the challenges of setting up good bureaucracies…
This situation touches on deficient personal ethics of the officers who milked the system, but the flaw they exploited appears to have been an innocent one. That’s different from corrupt government officials intentionally setting things up (e.g. “no bid contracts”) so as to benefit themselves and their cronies, as we have seen so often during the Bush administration.
8May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
A Lesser Sidestepping of Law Is Still A Sidestepping
Today’s Boston Globe carries a story on Bush having toned things down a bit in his first “signing statement” since Democrats became the majority in Congress. Bush signing statement is first since ’06 elections – The Boston Globe “They have clearly edited themselves,” said Christopher Kelley, a political science professor at Miami University of Ohio [...]
1Dec2007 | Deborah Alicen | 1 comment | Continued
One of those too common stories…
Here’s another of those stories we see far too many of these days: Blackwater Probe Stifled by Conflicts – Politics on The Huffington Post RICHARD LARDNER | November 26, 2007 05:57 PM EST | AP WASHINGTON — The State Department’s acerbic top auditor wasn’t happy when Justice Department officials told one of his aides to [...]
27Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
It Starts
I resolved to get this blog going in October of 2007. That’s when I read Valerie Plame Wilson’s blog posts about how good it is for her to finally be telling her story of being outed as a CIA agent and living through the consequences of telling truth to power. I have also experienced betrayal [...]
24Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 1 comment | Continued
