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Robert Parry, Consortium News: "As George W. Bush and Dick Cheney make their case for some positive legacy from the past eight years, two arguments are playing key roles: the notion that torturing terror suspects saved American lives and the belief that Bush's Iraq troop 'surge' transformed a disaster into something close to 'victory.' Not only will these twin arguments be important in defining the public's future impression of where Bush should rank on the presidential list, but they could constrain how far President Barack Obama can go in reversing these policies. In other words, the perception of the past can affect the future."

http://www.truthout.org/122908R



Under Bush, OSHA Mired in Inaction

R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post: "Current and former career officials at OSHA say that [deregulation was] a recurrent feature during the Bush administration, as political appointees ordered the withdrawal of dozens of workplace health regulations, slow-rolled others, and altered the reach of its warnings and rules in response to industry pressure. The result is a legacy of unregulation common to several health-protection agencies under Bush: From 2001 to the end of 2007, OSHA officials issued 86 percent fewer rules or regulations termed economically significant by the Office of Management and Budget than their counterparts did during a similar period in President Bill Clinton's tenure, according to White House lists."

http://www.truthout.org/122908HA

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Many questions left in Bush scandals

ABC

12/29/08

As the clock winds down on the Bush administration, historians and critics are coming to grips with how little they know about some of the scandals which helped make the president one of the least popular leaders in modern U.S. history. From the secret wiretapping program to the so-called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ to the firing of a number of U.S. Attorneys, the question remains of how high up administration officials were involved in authorizing many of these scandals...

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6519064&page=1


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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