Bush II administration secrecy

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US presidents: George W. Bush: administration: secrecy

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In sharp contrast to the administration of his predecessor, the presidential administration of George W. Bush has been one of the most secretive ever – with recently-unclassified reports being hastily reclassified, scientific reports suppressed, and investigations hobbled or completely compromised (e.g. the 9/11 Commission Report).

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• 2008-05-02 /S/D/ Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence' “In a new memoir set to be published May 6, the former commander of US forces in Iraq provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the Bush Administration in the first year of the Iraq war. .. His sharp tongued conclusion: "Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty."”
• 2008-04-26 /S/D/ Bush Secrecy Policies Transforming U.S. Government “President George W. Bush has transformed an open federal government in Washington into one of “pervasive secrecy,” a distinguished authority on communications and First Amendment rights says. .. Since his inauguration, Bush has overseen changes that suggest “a dramatic growth of government secrecy, far beyond the secrecy occurring during the Clinton Administration,” writes Susan Dente Ross,(no relation) an Associate Professor in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University at Pullman.” shorter version
• 2008-02-22 /S/D/ Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us “A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.” This had better be real, or the Right is gonna have a field day about "lefty fearmongering"...
• 2008-02-10 /S/D/ Army stifles critique of postwar Iraq planning “The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret. .. That is what happened to a detailed study of the planning for postwar Iraq prepared for the Army by the RAND Corp., a federally financed center that conducts research for the military.” (And much making of lame excuses ensued.)
• 2007-06-29 /S/D/ Cheney, master of stealth, readies himself for the final act of 'imperial' vice-presidency “It is the fresh details of Cheney's secretive and loyal coterie of officials at work that provides the most telling insight into how he pulls the strings of the federal government. .. The Post reveals that he has a "man-sized" safe in his office to keep the ordinary working papers out of reach of the National Archives and Records as provided by federal law. When the Archives demanded access to the papers, he tried to abolish the agency for daring to seek access to his documents.” (emphasis added)
• 2006-06-27 /S/D/ Surveillance Disclosure Denounced “President Bush offered an impassioned defense of his secret international banking surveillance program yesterday, calling it a legal and effective tool for hunting down terrorists and denouncing the media's disclosure of it as a "disgraceful" act that does "great harm" to the nation.”
• 2006-06-27 /S/D/ Bush Says Report on Bank Data Was Disgraceful “President Bush on Monday condemned as "disgraceful" the disclosure last week by The New York Times and other newspapers of a secret program to investigate and track terrorists that relies on a vast international database that includes Americans' banking transactions.”