Day: April 12, 2006

Today’s Washington Post lays out yet another example of how President George W. Bush lied to the American people, detailing a deliberate White House pattern of misinformation on the so-called “biological warfare” trailers captured soon after American troops invaded Iraq.

From Iraq reconstruction to Hurricane Katrina, poor contracting oversight enables Alaska Native corporations to capitalize on multimillion-dollar no-bid deals at a potential cost to taxpayers and small businesses, a federal audit says.

Greeted by a loud chorus of boos along with some cheers, Vice President Dick Cheney threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ Major League Baseball home opener on Tuesday.

The National Archives agreed to seal previously public CIA and Pentagon records and to keep silent about U.S. intelligence’s role in the reclassification, according to an agreement released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Homeland Security Department is tapping federal disaster responders for 13 states, readying them now to deliver fast aid and supplies to victims during the looming hurricane season.

Over the weekend, stories appeared to the effect that the Bush administration was drawing up contingency plans for air strikes, possibly including tactical nukes, on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Army Lt. Col. John Thurman said that when he was blown back from his desk, he first thought terrorists had planted bombs in the Pentagon _ not smashed it with a Boeing 757 jetliner.

President George W. Bush lied to the American public when he claimed two trailers captured by U.S. troops in Iraq in May 2003 were mobile “biological laboratories.” At the time he made the claim, U.S. intelligence officials already knew it was not true and had told the President the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons.