White House Watch Archive: Bush Rollback
Obama to Cheney: You Didn't Make Us Safer
Obama talks to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes. (CBS News via AP) President Obama last night forcefully rejected former vice president Cheney's argument that rolling back Bush administration anti-terror tactics has made the nation less safe. In an interview...
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March 23, 2009; 11:20 AM ET |
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Playing by the Rules
Former president George W. Bush made up his own rules as he went along. Two of the most vivid examples of this were his repeated suppression and distortion of scientific findings when they conflicted with his political goals and his...
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March 10, 2009; 12:09 PM ET |
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Bush's Secret Dictatorship
The memo issued by the acting director of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel just five days before Barack Obama took office comes across almost as, among other things, a bit whiny. Steven Bradbury wrote to officially retract a...
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March 3, 2009; 12:52 PM ET |
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Unbreaking Government
George Bush pretty much broke the federal government. He and former vice president Dick Cheney put people into key posts who didn't support the traditional missions of the agencies they led. Competence or experience weren't as important as loyalty to...
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March 3, 2009; 9:25 AM ET |
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Quick Takes
Joby Warrick writes in The Washington Post: "The daily White House intelligence report that catalogs the top security threats to the nation has a grim new addition, reflecting the realities of the age: a daily update on the global financial...
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February 26, 2009; 1:15 PM ET |
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Obama Hasn't Entirely Abandoned the Bush Playbook
Is President Obama adopting some of his predecessor's signature anti-terror tactics? A New York Times story this morning says it looks that way. And there have, indeed, been a few instances lately in which Obama has gravely disappointed civil libertarians,...
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February 18, 2009; 12:23 PM ET |
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