It wasn’t so long ago that politicians had the luxury to bicker over how to spend a record budget surplus, Barack Obama was a state senator trying unsuccessfully to get a foot in the door of the U.S. Capitol, and George W. Bush went to sleep with visions of a dominant Republican majority dancing in [...]
Former President George W. Bush called on America’s partners in negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear program to send a strong and clear message to the regime to stop its atomic activity, a news report said Saturday.
North Korea conducted its second nuclear test in May and a barrage of missile tests in July, drawing international condemnation [...]
Michelle Obama’s performance as first lady is getting high marks from her predecessor, Laura Bush.
Bush says “she’s doing a great job,” and says being first lady is like being a member of a club that very few people get to be part of.
Speaking to The Associated Press after a change-of-command ceremony for the USS Texas [...]
Karl Rove, former top White House adviser to President George W. Bush, finished two days of closed-door testimony to Congress on Thursday, as Democrats continue to probe the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.
The nine U.S. attorneys were fired in part for apparently not being sufficiently loyal to the Republican administration.
The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.
The proposal advanced to at least one-high level administration meeting, before President George W.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday urged Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel to examine potential abuses by former President George W. Bush’s administration.
Conyers’ committee has sought an investigation of Bush administration moves criticized by Democrats, including its methods of interrogating foreign detainees, use of warrantless wiretaps, alleged retribution [...]
Government officials say the secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and kill or capture al-Qaida leaders at close range rather than target them with air strikes.
Panetta canceled the effort on June 23 after learning of its existence, its failure to yield results, and the fact that [...]
President Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies, but his Democratic allies aren’t likely to let the matters rest.
Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., head of the intelligence committee, suggested that the George W. Bush administration broke the law by concealing a CIA counterterrorism program from Congress.
Two leading Republican senators say a criminal investigation into the Bush administration’s harsh intelligence practices would make the CIA a boogeyman.
Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee says that if Attorney General Eric Holder decides to appoint a prosecutor to probe Bush-era decisions, he should go farther back.
Not enough relevant officials were aware of the size and depth of an unprecedented surveillance program started under President George W. Bush, let alone signed off on it, a team of federal inspectors general found.
The report, mandated by Congress last year and delivered to lawmakers Friday, also says it’s unclear how much valuable intelligence the [...]
