January 7, 2009

20 forgotten scandals of the Bush/Cheney misadministration

Adding to the Bush legatude of disgrace, incompetence, corruption and stupidity:

The Bush administration will leave the annals of presidential disrepute several times thicker than it found them. There’s Iraq, the hospital visit to John Ashcroft, the US attorney firings. But historians will note that those are only the beginning of the Bush administration scandals. Does the name Jeff Gannon ring a bell? Boxgate? What about the anti-prostitution AIDS tsar who purchased the services of—wait for it—the D.C. Madam? The Daily Beast has put together 20 of Bush’s greatest forgotten scandals.

And those are just the ones we know about. Read them all here.

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