"Caesar's wife must be above suspicion." (Gaius Julius Caesar)
This page contains links only from 2004 or earlier.
Also see Bush's broken campaign promises
Corporate Corruption
- The Anti-Regulation Regulator
Stephen Labaton, New York Times, 27 August 2002
- Clinton Says Republicans Blocked His Audit Reforms
David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 25 July 2002
- 10 Days that Shook the Bush Presidency
Thomas Spencer, History News Network, 23 July 2002
- Shorting George
Landon Thomas Jr., New York Magazine, 23 July 2002
- Bush digs himself into a hole and keeps digging
Taipei Times, 16 July 2002
- The Rap on Bush and Cheney
Bill Saporito, Time, 14 July 2002
- Bush speech fails to deliver
David Schepp, BBC, 15 July 2002
- White House backs Thompson in spite of his ties to company that committed fraud
CNN, 13 July 2002
- The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week
George Mannes, TheStreet, 12 July 2002
- Bush in more trouble as markets crash
Matthew Engel, The Guardian, 12 July 2002
- The Busted Effort to Blame Enron on Bill Clinton and the Democrats
Bill O'Reilly Sucks, July 2002
- Bush Failed to Stress Need to Rein In Stock Options
Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, 11 July 2002
- Bush Calls for End to Loans of a Type He Once Received
Jeff Gerth and Richard W. Stevenson, New York Times, 11 July 2002
- Bush's Appeal to Morality Falls Short
Matthew Goldstein, TheStreet, 10 July 2002
- Big Names but No Authority to Prosecute
David Johnston, New York Times, 10 July 2002
- Bush, on Wall Street, Offers Tough Talk and Softer Plans
Floyd Norris, New York Times, 10 July 2002
- Bush meets with corporate contributors
Associated Press, 4 January 2001
Harken Oil
- A Detailed Summary of 'HarkenGate'
Professor Skip Fox, Democratic Underground, 26 July 2002
- Bush’s Insider Connections Preceded Huge Profit On Stock Deal
Knut Royce, Center for Public Integrity, 7 March 2004
- Bush quashed evidence in Harken enquiry
David Teather, The Guardian, 2 November 2002
- How George W. Bush made his millions
Joseph Kay, World Socialist Web Site, 1 August 2002
- Is Harken Energy Bush's Watergate?
The Scoop, 22 July 2002
- Files: Bush Knew Firm's Plight Before Stock Sale
Mike Allen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 21 July 2002
- Soros adds to doubts on Bush business deals
Michael Kranish, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 July 2002
- Senators: Release records on Bush stock sale
Kelly Wallace, CNN, 16 July 2002
- Bush rides the Whitewater
Eric Boehlert, Salon, 13 July 2002
- Why US press didn't give Bush a burning
Harold Evans, Observer (UK), 14 July 2002
- Memos: Bush knew of Harken's problems
Anthony York, Salon, 12 July 2002
- The Insider Game
Paul Krugman, New York Times (in Truthout), 12 July 2002
- 'Read My Lips: Oil Was Well with Harken'
Tom Flocco, American Free Press (in Scoop.com), 12 July 2002
- Secrecy Surrounds Bush Stock Deal
Associated Press (in Truthout), 12 July 2002
- George Bush, Failed Corporate Crook
James Ridgeway, Village Voice, 10 July 2002
- Old Business in New Light
Richard W. Stevenson, New York Times, 9 July 2002
- "There was no malfeance (sic.), no attempt to hide anything."
Alastair Thompson, Scoop, 9 July 2002
- Succeeding in Business
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 7 July 2002
- The know-nothing defense has been getting a workout
David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2002
- White House on defensive over Bush handling of stock sale
CNN, 3 July 2002
- Bush Faces Scrutiny Over Disclosing '90 Stock Sale Late
Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 4 July 2002
- Bush blames lawyers for undeclared $1m share sale
Matthew Engel, The Guardian, 4 July 2002
- Bush on back foot over corporate past
The Guardian, 4 July 2002
- Bush Name Helps Fuel Oil Dealings
George Lardner Jr. and Lois Romano, Washington Post, 30 July 1999
- Bush and Lay: A Common Pattern of Stock Dumps?
David Corn, The Nation, February 2002
- Everyone Is Outraged
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 2 July 2002
Halliburton
- A Detailed Summary of 'HalliburtonGate'
Professor Skip Fox, Democratic Underground, 26 July 2002
- Halliburton Accused of Accounting Fraud
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters (in Truthout),6 August 2004
- Halliburton Subpoenaed Over Unit's Iran Work
Matt Daily, Reuters, 19 July 2004
- Did Cheney Okay a Deal for Halliburton?
Timothy J. Burger and Adam Zagorin, Time (in Truthout), 30 May 2004
- Halliburton lobby costs see big drop
Maud S. Beelman, Boston Globe, 27 March 2004
- Top U.S. General in Iraq Criticizes Halliburton Conduct
CNN, 15 March 2004
- Pentagon Opens Criminal Inquiry of Halliburton Pricing
Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times, 24 February 2004
- Halliburton's Iraq gravy train
Farhad Manjoo, Salon, 27 February 2004
- What did the Vice-President do for Halliburton?
Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 9 February 2004
- Another Halliburton Probe
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenrball, Newsweek, 4 February 2004
- Pentagon Seeks Further Halliburton Probe
Associated Press (in Truthout), 15 January 2004
- A Nigerian Contract at the Heart of a Corruption Affair
Eric Decouty, Le Figaro (in Truthout), 20 December 2003
- Halliburton Subsidiary Is Accused of Racial Bias
Jonathan D. Glater, New York Times, 29 November 2003
- Oil Firm Linked to Cheney Gets Iraq Boost
David Teather, The Guardian (in Truthout), 30 October 2003
- Halliburton Unit In Consortium Fingered For Alleged Corruption
Houston Business Journal (in Truthout), 10 October 2003
- Oil Services Firm Paid Cheney as VP
Reuters (in Truthout), 17 September 2003
- Halliburton flap roils as Corps tacks on task
David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle, 7 May 2003
- Halliburton Subsidiary Wins Iraqi Oil Firefighting Contract
Associated Press (in Truthout), 26 March 2003
- Conflict of interest for Cheney
David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 November 2002
- Cheney firm won $3.8bn contracts from government
Ed Vulliamy and Nick Paton Walsh, Observer (UK), 21 July 2002
- The Cheney Question
Business Week, 12 July 2002
- US corporate clean-up implicates Cheney
BBC, 29 May 2002
- Under Cheney, Halliburton Altered Policy on Accounting
Alex Berenson and Lowell Bergman, New York Times , 22 May 2002
- Cheney's old firm on shaky ground
David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 January 2002
- Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said
Colum Lynch, Washington Post, 23 June 2001 February 2002
- New White House Counsel Accused of Favoritism for Cheney's Halliburton
Nathan Newman, CommonDreams, 18 December 2000
WorldCom Meltdown
- World Con
Ed Vulliamy, Observer (UK), 29 June 2002
Taiwangate Slush Fund
Funeralgate, The Sequel: Focus on Florida
- Funeral firm that dug up bodies pays families $100m
Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, 4 December 2003
- G.A.O. Sets Inquiry of Crematory Fraud and Grave Desecration
New York Times, 21 March 2002
- Funeral Company Manager, Upset by Suit, Is Found Dead
Dana Canedy, New York Times, 29 December 2001
- Funeralgate: The Skeleton in Bush's closet is back from the dead
Reality.com, 24 December 2001
- Bush family backer linked to ghoulish (and illegal) corpse-dumping, grave reselling schemes
Tamara Baker, American Politics Journal, 21 December 2001
- Funeral Company Accused of Desecration
Tamar Lewin, New York Times, 21 December 2001
- SCI: The Dying Giant
Robert Bryce, Salon, 29 September 1999
Funeralgate
- Democrats.com list of information about Funeralgate
- The funeral scandal time line
Compiled by Robert Bryce, Salon, 20 August 1999
- Funeralgate: Bush Charged With Lying Under Oath About Influence-Peddling
R. Prichard, Democrats.com
- The Lawsuit That Wouldn't Die
Robert Bryce, Austin Chronicle, 26 January 2001
- Fear and Loathing in Austin
Robert Bryce, The Austin Chronicle, 10 November 2000
- It's His Funeral
Robert Bryce, The Austin Chronicle, 27 October 2000
- Bush Faces Lawsuit in Texas
John Mintz, Washington Post, 23 August 1999
- Who is Eliza May?
Robert Bryce, Salon, 20 August 1999
- Funeralgate Hits Texas
Robert Bryce, Austin Chronicle, 9-15 July 1999
Political Cronies
- Also see Cabinet and Other Appointees
- EPA Rule on Hazardous Waste Favored Ohio Businessman Who Is a Big GOP Donor
James V. Grimaldi and Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post, 17 May 2004
- How a Shady Iranian Deal Maker Kept the Pentagon's Ear
James Risen, New York Times (in Truthout), 7 December 2003
- The Man to See On Indian Affairs?
Michael Weisskopf, Time, 15 April 2002
- Energy Industry's Recommendations to Bush Became National Policy
Don Van Natta Jr. and Neela Banerjee, New York Times, 28 March 2002
- John Poindexter Takes Over New Agency to Thwart Attacks on U.S.
John Markoff, New York Times, 13 February 2002
- Bush's, Enron's fates were intertwined
Don Van Natta Jr., New York Times, 2 December 2001
- Barrick Gold forces investigative journalist Greg Palast offline
William Spain, CBS Marketwatch, 1 August 2001
- White House sought advice on opening a nuclear waste dump from law firm that was also lobbying for nuclear industry
Matthew L. Wald, New York Times, 28 July 2001
- A gold company with ties to the Bush family tries to muzzle a muckraking journalist
Joe Conason, Salon, 20 July 2001
- Utilities hire chief GOP fundraiser to plead their cause with the government
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 6 June 2001
- Memo suggests Texas firm manipulated gas market
Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2001
- Bush campaign adviser removed from Medicare panel because of conflict of interest
Robert Pear, New York Times, 14 May 2001
- Bush opposes plan to crack down on offshore tax havens
Jane Martinson and Charlotte Denny, The Guardian, 10 May 2001
- Welcome to the Military-Industrial Complex: Bush Picks Weapons-Company Executives for Pentagon Jobs
James Dao, New York Times, 25 April 2001
- PG&E Took Hard Line, Dooming State Talks — Secret plan shows utility demanded even less regulation
David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 April 2001
- The disturbing ties of some of George W. Bush’s Latino advisors
Julie Reynolds, El Andar
- This Second Lady Is Keeping Her Day Job
Melinda Henneberger, New York Times, 6 February 2001
- Enron, the nation's largest energy merchant, won't let California stand in its way
Wendy Zellner, with Christopher Palmeri, Peter Coy, and Laura Cohn; Business Week, 12 February 2001
- Dear Richard, don't say we didn't tell you
Gregory Palast, The Guardian, 21 January 2001
- Big business backs Bush
Kenneth R. Pybus, Houston Business Journal, 4 February 2000
- How George W. Bush got into the National Guard
Observer (UK), 28 November 1999
Partisan Campaign Activity in Florida Secretary of State's Office
- Florida judge slaps Katherine Harris over redistricting lawsuit
Matthew Haggman, Miami Daily Business Review, 20 June 2002
- The election shows the way Republicans play the game
Mary Jo Melone, St. Petersburg Times, 19 August 2001
- The imaginary firewall
editorial, St. Petersburg Times, 9 August 2001
- Democrats say Harris should resign
Alisa Ulferts, St. Petersburg Times, 9 August 2001
- Data Permanently Erased From Computers in Katherine Harris' Office
David Barstow, New York Times, 8 August 2001
- Harris computers contain partisan files
Thomas C. Tobin, Alisa Ulferts and Alicia Caldwell, St. Petersburg Times, 8 August 2001
- Data Permanently Erased From Florida Computers
David Barstow, New York Times, 8 August 2001
- Katherine Harris' hand-picked expert claims no files are missing from office hard drives
Alisa Ulferts, St. Petersburg Times, 2 August 2001
- Florida Gives Computers in November Election to News Groups
Dana Canedy, New York Times, 2 August 2001
- Harris employs systems expert; newspapers insist on their own inspection
Steve Bousquet, St. Petersburg Times, 28 July 2001
- Katherine Harris claims she will release hard drives used during recount
Dana Canedy, New York Times, 26 July 2001
- More Evidence Bush Stole the Election
Bill Press, CNN, 23 July 2001
- Florida Attorney General says all office records are public unless explicitly declared private by the legislature
Steve Bousquet, St. Petersburg Times, 21 July 2001
- New York Times documents military role in theft of 2000 election
Barry Grey, World Socialist Web Site, 19 July 2001
- Katherine Harris denies the New York Times evidence of her partisan bias
Dana Canedy, New York Times, 18 July 2001
- Harris' partisan fixers
editorial, St. Petersburg Times, 17 July 2001
- Katherine
Harris' partisan activities during recount revisited
Tim Nickens
and Steve Bousquet, St. Petersburg Times, 16 July 2001
- A taste for quiet and a talent for discord
Michael Ellison, Guardian UK, 14 November 2000
- The woman under fire
Jake Tapper, Salon, 13 November 2000
The Profit Motive
- Also see War Profiteers (separate page)
- Also see GOP Fund Raising (separate page)
- James Baker's Double Life
Naomi KleinThe Nation, 1 November October 2004
- Bush enjoys travel advantage on taxpayer-financed Air Force One
Associated Press (in USA Today), 1 June 2004
- Chief of Head Start Is Accused of Mismanaging a Center
Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, 16 April 2004
- Utility at Center of Blackout was Major Bush Donor
Mike Allen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 19 August 2003
- Cheney is Still Paid by Pentagon Contractor
Robert Bryce and Julian Borger, The Guardian (in Truthout), 12 March 2003
- Vanity Fair Pays Bush Adviser For Access to White House
Jackie Calmes, Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2002
- Chevron Helped Dictate U.S. Energy Policy
press release, Natural Resources Defense Council, 22 May 2002
- President Rewards 43 Members of Fund-Raising 'Pioneers Club' With Prominent Posts
Don Van Natta Jr., New York Times, 6 March 2002
- White House Is Backing Foes of Finance Bill
Richard L. Berke and Alison Mitchell, New York Times, 12 February 2002
- Abraham got thousands from nuke biz
William Spain, CBS MarketWatch, 11 January 2002
- Inside Lockheed's $250 Billion Pentagon Connection
Geoffrey Gray, Village Voice, 7 November 2001
- O'Neill makes huge profit by delaying divestiture
Jake Tapper, Salon, 7 June 2001
- Bush donors fill top envoy posts
Laurence McQuillan, USA Today, 4 May 2001
- Elder Bush in Big G.O.P. Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm
Leslie Wayne, New York Times, 5 February 2001
"Pharisees and Hypocrites"
Ethics Violations by Members of Bush Regime
- General/Miscellaneous
- Joseph Allbaugh
- Robert G. Card
- Charles James
- Theodore Olson
- Paul O'Neill
- Harvey Pitt
- Condoleeza Rice
- Karl Rove
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Tommy Thompson
- Ann Veneman
- Christine Todd Whitman
Submarine Disaster
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