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Cheney Suppressed Evidence in California Energy Crisis
By Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report In-depth investigation shows how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001. In March 2001, while California’s two largest utilities were teetering on the…
Gonzales should be impeached – Boston Globe OpEd
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Bush makes history by not also writing it
The Republican, Editorial On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush was inside Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., to promote his education reform when he learned that America was under attack. This was a day that changed the Bush presidency and the nation’s history. Scholars and archivists will one day travel…
