FBI Discloses Its Own Warrantless Spying Info

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2006 The Justice Dept. pored through the bank, library or telecom records of 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents--without a court's approval. Apparently this was legal--it's just the first time the FBI is publicly disclosing hard numbers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: The Great Bush Reclassification Project

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Apr 27, 2006 It's nice to know that the investigative reporter Jack Anderson is still under investigation, although seriously dead. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: Karl Rove’s Early Machinations

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Apr 18, 2006 In this classic column from 2000, the Texas columnist uses unearthed testimony from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to expose Karl Rove's modus operandi back in the 1980s. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Gossip Columnist Extortion Plot Roils N.Y. Post

Staff / Truthdig Apr 11, 2006 One of New York's most high-profile gossip columnists has been suspended in the wake of allegations that he tried to shake down a billionaire by charging him hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep negative stories out of the press. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush: I Won’t Pay Attention to Patriot Act Requirement

Staff / Truthdig Mar 25, 2006 You may want to swallow your food before reading this Just as he did with the anti-torture law, Bush placed an addendum on the Patriot Act saying he doesn't have to obey parts of the law . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Olbermann on Bush’s Hypocrisy

Staff / Truthdig Mar 9, 2006 The MSNBC host lays bare the White House's attack on press freedoms and whistle-blowers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

White House Opens Efforts Against Media Leaks

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2006 Bush & Co have launched FBI probes, polygraph investigations and warnings from the Justice Dept to stem leaks of classified (and non-classified) information to reporters Imagine if Bush were to spend an equal amount of time addressing the problems surfaced via the leaks Of course he never would do that, but perhaps he could ask Karl Rove what kind of information he has leaked . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Coverup Under Two Presidents: The Unsolved Mystery of the Oklahoma City Bombing

Andrew Gumbel / Truthdig Feb 22, 2006 One hundred sixty-eight died -- but we still don't know for certain the identities of their killers. A look at the striking parallels between the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, and how the FBI resisted, and is still resisting, giving full accounts of each. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Hypocrisy on Display at King’s Funeral?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 8, 2006 Bush attends the services of Coretta Scott King while simultaneously pressing on with a warrantless spying program | storyForty years ago, the FBI used illegal wiretaps in an attempt to blackmail King's husband | Truthdig filesPlus a change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gore, ACLU and NYT Come out Swinging on Spying

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2006 The former VP, hot and bothered, says a special prosecutor should investigate Bush's spy program | story or transcriptThe NYT reports that even the former FBI director had qualms about the legality of the spying | story Meanwhile, the ACLU and another group sue Bush over his wiretappingcom/2006/01/17/politics/17nsahtml?hp&ex=1137474000&en=9aa4386db9bb10f6&ei=5094&partner=homepage" title="story">story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sex, Lies and Audiotape

Staff / Truthdig Jan 16, 2006 A year before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. called America the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." His comments and actions made him the object of a massive, FBI-led audio surveillance program into his sex life. Check out our multimedia assemblage in Uncovered. | entry Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

Blair Golson / Truthdig Jan 16, 2006 Back in 1968, it wasn't the Fox network but Time and the Washington Post that branded war critics as fifth columnists. Also, read about an illegal wiretap operation that makes today's version look downright cordial. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )