Jason Leopold/Articles

This article is part of the Center for Media & Democracy's focus on the fallout of nuclear "spin."

The following are some of the more than 2,000 articles written by Jason Leopold.

2002

• "Bill Simon's Enron Ties," April 25, 2002 (posted); May 13, 2002 (issue). re Enron
• "White Should Go—Now," The Nation, May 10, 2002. re Thomas E. White
• "Bush and Harken," The Nation, July 18, 2002. re Harken Energy
• "Tom White played key role in covering up Enron losses. As Enron neared the end, the Army secretary used highly dubious accounting methods to inflate its revenue," New York Times, August 29, 2002; republished in "US Army Secretary Helped Cook Enron's Books," Scoop (New Zealand), October 8, 2002. Scroll down for article.
• "My Story – Shafted By The New York Times," Scoop (New Zealand), October 9, 2002.
• With Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson, "The Thomas E. White Affair – The Documents," Scoop Exclusive (New Zealand), November 5, 2002.

2003

• "Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz's war on Iraq began before 1998 - now it's official," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), February 25, 2003. re Project for the New American Century
• "FERC and Wall Street Conversations May Have Violated Federal Law," Dissident Voice, April 9, 2003.
• "US VP's former company continues to break laws while profitting from terror," Dissident Voice, May 13, 2003; OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), May 16, 2003.
• "Despite thin intelligence reports, the US plans to overthrow Iranian regime," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia); Dissident Voice, May 29, 2003.
• "Wolfowitz Admits Iraq War Planned Two Days After 9-11," GlobalResearch (Canada); Dissident Voice, June 3, 2003. re Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
• "The Iraq War was always based on Shaky Evidence and Phony Intelligence," Dissident Voice, June 5, 2003; GlobalResearch (Canada), June 10, 2003.
• "Powell Denies Intelligence Failure In Buildup To War, But Evidence Doesn’t Hold Up," GlobalResearch (Canada); Dissident Voice, June 10, 2003; OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), June 13, 2003.
• "White House silenced expert doubts about Iraq intel 6 months before war," Global Research (Canada), June 13, 2003; OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), June 20, 2003.
• "Wolfowitz Aimed to Undermine Blix So US Could Strike Iraq," Dissident Voice, June 26, 2003.
• "CIA Intelligence Reported Seven Months Before 9/11: Iraq posed No Threat to US," GlobalResearch (Canada), June 28, 2003.
• "The CIA also exaggerated the Soviet nuclear threat during the Cold War," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), July 4, 2003; GlobalResearch (Canada), July 8, 2003.
• "CIA Warned White House Last Oct. That Iraq/Uranium Claims Based On Forged Documents," Dissident Voice, July 15, 2003.
• "'The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions': How Can The White House Justify Iraq War If WMD’s Aren’t Found?" Dissident Voice, July 16, 2003.
• "Wolfowitz committee instructed White House to use Iraq/uranium reference in State of the Union speech," Online Journal, July 16, 2003; Dissident Voice, July 17, 2003. re State of the Union 2003, yellowcake forgery
• "Tenet Tells Senators Wolfowitz Committee Gave White House Dubious Intelligence," Dissident Voice, July 19, 2003.
• "CIA Probe Finds Secret Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat," Dissident Voice, July 24, 2003; Antiwar.com and OnlineOpinion.com (Australia)), , July 25, 2003. re White House Iraq Group
• "White House Said In January It Used Info From Iraqi Exiles In Bush’s State of the Union Speech," Dissident Voice, July 29, 2003.
• "Arnold's Enron Connection," Utne.com, August 2003.
• "Wolfowitz: Iraq Not Involved in 9-11, No Ties to al-Qaeda," Antiwar.com; Dissident Voice, August 7, 2003. re September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda
• "Ahnuld, Ken Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Gray Davis," Dissident Voice, August 16, 2003.
• "Blackouts Happen: California Power Crisis Should Have Been A Warning Sign To U.S.," Dissident Voice, August 19, 2003.
• "Total amnesia. Arnold can’t seem to recall anything about his secret meeting with Enron’s Ken Lay. Perhaps this will refresh his memory," News Review (Sacramento, CA), August 28, 2003.
• "The Business of E-Voting and How it Can Put the Wrong Candidate in Office," Dissident Voice, September 3, 2003. re e-voting
• "Dems Scrap Plans To Look Into Claims White House Manipulated Intel On Iraqi Threat," Dissident Voice, September 13, 2003.
• "Schwarzenegger’s First Role As Governor-Elect of California: The Deregulator," Dissident Voice, October 11, 2003.
• "Halliburton keeps doing biz in Iran, despite fines, concerns of terrorism," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), October 29, 2003.
• "Halliburton Won’t Back Off Doing Biz In Iran, Despite NYC Pension Funds Concerns of Terrorism," Dissident Voice, November 1, 2003.

2004

• "Bush Should Be Facing "A Long, Hard Slog" On Campaign Trail, But Dems Too Busy Fighting With Each Other," Dissident Voice, January 12, 2004.
• "Paul O'Neill's Claims Against Bush Supported By 1998 'War' Letters to Clinton Signed By Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz," Dissident Voice, January 15, 2004; Liberal Slant, January 19, 2004. re Paul O'Neill, Donald Rumsfeld
• "The U.S. Democrats need to advertise Bush's lies about Iraq: here's proof," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), January 22, 2004.
• "Halliburton, VP Cheney’s Former Company Faces Second Criminal Probe In Four Years," Dissident Voice, February 24, 2004.
• "Why did the CIA change its mind about Iraq after September 11, 2001?" OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), February 24, 2004.
• "Cheney helped cover-up Pakistani nuclear proliferation in '89 so US could sell country fighter jets," Dissident Voice, March 8, 2004; Online Journal, March 10, 2004.
• "Company With Ties to VP Cheney's Energy Task Force Faces Criminal Indictment for Gaming Cal Electricity Market," Dissident Voice, March 22, 2004.
• "Rice Never Spoke About Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden Before 9/11, Investigation Shows," Dissident Voice, April 5, 2004.
• "Got Juice? California May Be Saddled With Severe Power Shortages This Summer," Dissident Voice, April 17, 2004.
• "Schwarzenegger Pulls a Cheney: Aides Refuse to Identify People Who Helped Governor Draft Calif. Energy Plan," Dissident Voice, May 2, 2004.
• "Some of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Energy Advisers Who are Pushing for a Competitive Electricity Market Contributed Heavily to Gov's Campaign Last Year," Dissident Voice, May 13, 2004.
• "New Documents Suggest Enron’s Lay, Skilling, Washington Lobbyist Knew About Company’s Trading Schemes In CA," Dissident Voice, June 7, 2004.
• "Power play. New documents suggest Enron’s Lay, Skilling and Shapiro all knew about the company’s trading schemes in California," News Review (Sacramento, CA), June 17, 2004.
• "Halliburton Ignores Sanctions," Antiwar.com, July 23, 2004. re Halliburton
• "Cheney Lobbied Congress To Ease Sanctions Against Terrorist Countries While He Was CEO Of Halliburton," Dissident Voice, July 25, 2004.
• "Don’t believe the hype: terrorist warnings are just another Bush re-election ploy," Dissident Voice, August 4, 2004; OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), August 10, 2004.
• "How Dick Cheney Got Away With $35 Million Right Before the Govt. Launched a Probe into Halliburton," Dissident Voice, August 20, 2004.
• "You Don't Know Dick," AlterNet, August 27, 2004.
• "David Swanson on overtime pay, Jason Leopold on Halliburton," Counterspin (FAIR), September 3-9, 2004.
• "Remember When Presidential Campaigns Used to Be About The Issues?" Dissident Voice, September 20, 2004.
• "The Right Man For The Job(s)?" AlterNet, October 4, 2004.
• "Cheney's Oil-for-Food Switcheroo," Antiwar.com; Dissident Voice, October 12, 2004. re Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Oil-for-food program
• "Emails Show Enron May Have Influenced FERC Probe On California Power Crisis, Refunds," Dissident Voice, October 14, 2004.
• "Sinclair Broadcasting's Long History of Journalistic and Corporate Deception," Dissident Voice, October 20, 2004.

2005

• "Bush's choice for energy secretary among top five worst polluters," Political Affairs Magazine, January 18, 2005.
• "Introducing one of Bush’s new cabinet pals ...," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), January 21, 2005. re Samuel W. Bodman
• "Opening ANWR to Development Could Lead to 'Exxon Valdez' Type of Disaster," Political Affairs Magazine, April 21, 2005. re Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, oil industry
• "'Exxon Valdez' disaster predicted for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), May 5, 2005.
• "Weapons Report Reveals Impeachable Offenses," Progressive Trail, May 6, 2005. re weapons of mass destruction
• "BP Faces Huge Fines Related To Unreported Oil Spills in Alaska; Is ANWR Next?" ZMag; Political Affairs Magazine, May 15, 2005.
• "Watergate Proves That Even Presidents Will Break Laws To Achieve Goals," Common Dreams, June 1, 2005; "'Deep Throat': Watergate Proves that Presidents Break Laws," Political Affairs Magazine, June 1, 2005. re W. Mark Felt, Watergate
• "When is Someone Going to Toss Rumsfeld into a Cage?" Dissident Voice, June 5, 2005; Political Affairs Magazine, June 6, 2005.
• "Former Army Sec Thomas White Wants Gov’t Funding for Energy Project," Political Affairs Magazine, June 8, 2005.
• "Watergate and the Iraq War - A higher standard of truthfulness?" OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), June 10, 2005.
• "Someone Tell Bush That Iraq Wasn’t Responsible for 9/11 Before another War Breaks Out," Political Affairs Magazine, June 20, 2005.
• "Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron Input Named FERC Chair," Political Affairs Magazine, June 30, 2005.
• "Karl Rove May Have Lied to Federal Agents," Political Affairs Magazine, July 15, 2005; Dissident Voice, July 16, 2005.
• "Karl Rove may have lied," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), July 27, 2005.
• "Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran's Nuclear Team," Common Dreams, August 6, 2005. re Iran's nuclear weapons, Iran's oil industry
• "Halliburton and Iran. Still Doing Business After All These Years?" CounterPunch, August 6-8, 2005.
• "Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team," Political Affairs Magazine, August 8, 2005.
• "Cheney + Pakistan = Iran," Common Dreams, August 9, 2005.
• "Halliburton Sold Iranian Oil Company Key Nuclear Reactor Components, Sources Say," The Free Press, August 10, 2005.
• "President Bush Knows the True Reasons He Started A War in Iraq, But He's Not Going to Tell," Political Affairs Magazine, August 23, 2005.
• "What's Eating Cindy Sheehan?" Political Affairs Magazine, August 30, 2005. re Cindy Sheehan
• "Playing with fire: Halliburton’s ties with terrorism," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), September 1, 2005. re terrorism
• "Global Warming and Blackouts are as Dangerous as Terrorism," Political Affairs Magazine, September 1, 2005.
• "Bush's Demented Priorities. State of Marriage Took Precedence Over State of Louisiana," Dissident Voice; Political Affairs Magazine, September 3, 2005; CounterPunch, September 3/4, 2005. re Hurricane Katrina
• "Seems like More People Died than Prospered under Bush’s Leadership," Political Affairs Magazine, September 7, 2005.
• "FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by '04 Hurricane to Help Bush," Political Affairs Magazine; JUST Response, September 10, 2005.
• "The Politics of False Claims. How Michael Brown Helped Bush Win Florida," CounterPunch, September 12, 2005. re Michael Brown
• "FuneralGate. Corpse-Abusing Company Gets FEMA Contract," CounterPunch; Political Affairs Magazine and Online Journal, September 15, 2005. re Hurricane Katrina: Profiteering
• "Pre-9/11 CIA Report Said Iraq Posed No Threat," Political Affairs Magazine, September 20, 2005.
• "GOP Fiscal Policy and Katrina. How to Turn a Natural Disaster into a Man-Made Catastrophe," Counter Punch; Political Affairs Magazine; JUST Response, September 22, 2005; Online Journal, September 24, 2005.
• "Bill Frist: savvy stock seller or fraud?" JUST Response, September 27, 2005; "Bill Frist, The Former 2008 Presidential Candidate," Common Dreams, September 28, 2005; Political Affairs Magazine. re Bill Frist
• "The Big Easy highlights Bush's fiscal facade," OnlineOpinion.com (Australia), September 29, 2005.
• "Karl Rove Lied to the FBI," The Huffington Post, October 7, 2005. re Karl Rove, Treasongate
• "The White House or the jailhouse for Bill Frist?" Online Journal, October 10, 2005.
• "NYC subway bomb plot is bogus," JUST Response, October 10, 2005.
• With Larisa Alexandrovna, "Second Cheney aide cooperating in leak probe, those close to case say," The Raw Story, October 19, 2005. re David Wurmser
• "Vice President's role in outing of CIA agent under examination," Political Affairs Magazine, October 19, 2005.
• "New York Times Reporter was Pentagon's Mouthpiece," Political Affairs Magazine; JUST Response, October 20, 2005; Dissident Voice, October 22, 2005. re Judith Miller
• With Larisa Alexandrovna, "Cheney aide passed Plame's name to Libby, Hadley, those close to leak investigation say," The Raw Story, October 24, 2005. (Note: Yahoo! link needs to changed.) re I. Lewis Scooter Libby, Stephen J. Hadley
• With John Byrne, "Prosecutor in leak case seeks indictments against Rove, Libby, lawyers close to case say," The Raw Story, October 26, 2005; Dissident Voice, October 27, 2005. re Patrick J. Fitzgerald
• "Prosecutor secures indictment in CIA outing case, lawyers say" and "CIA Leak: Fitzgerald expanded scope of inquiry in 2004 to probe Niger forgeries," Political Affairs Magazine; Dissident Voice, October 28, 2005.
• "Rove and Cheney are now caught In Fitzgerald's web," Online Journal, October 29, 2005.
• "Now It’s About The Niger Forgeries," Political Affairs Magazine, October 31, 2005. Larisa Alexandrona and John Byrne contributed to this story.
• With Larisa Alexandrovna, "Bolton's chief of staff gave information on outed agent to Libby, lawyers involved in leak case say," The Raw Story, November 2, 2005. re Treasongate: Beyond Karl Rove; Marc Grossman; and Frederick Fleitz, John R. Bolton's chief of staff
• "Cheney, CIA and strategic deception techniques," JUST Response, November 7, 2005.
• "Vice president lied as White House sought to defuse leak inquiry," Online Journal, November 7, 2005; Political Affairs Magazine, November 9, 2005.
• With Larisa Alexandrovna, "Rove aide called back to testify as inquiry into Rove's role wraps up, lawyers say," The Raw Story, November 10, 2005 (updated December 20, 2005).
• "Rove is far from off the hook as Fitzgerald continues probe into his Plamegate role," Online Journal, November 11, 2005.
• "Rediscovered testimony given by CIA director in 2001 suggests manipulation of pre-war intelligence," The Raw Story, November 14, 2005; Online Journal, November 15, 2005.
• With Larisa Alexandrovna, "National Security Adviser was Woodward's source, attorneys say," The Raw Story, November 16, 2005. re Bob Woodward
• "How pre-war Iraq intelligence was cooked," Online Journal, November 23, 2005. re cooked intelligence
• With Larisa Alexandrovna, "Testimony from Rove's former assistant may solidify case that he misled leak inquiry, lawyers say," The Raw Story, November 28, 2005.
• "Criminal trial related to California energy crisis may soon begin," Online Journal, December 2, 2005.
• "Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop. Did Karl Rove Hide or Destroy Evidence in Plame Case?" CounterPunch, December 17, 2005.
• "Leak probe not seen to end with Rove, lawyers say," The Raw Story, December 21, 2005.

2006

• "How they got caught: After lobbyist broke off engagement, ex-fiancee told of illicit dealings to FBI," The Raw Story, January 3, 2006.
• "The NSA Spy Engine - Echelon," truthout (Scoop (New Zealand)), January 9, 2006. re George W. Bush's domestic spying, Echelon
• "Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11," truthout, January 13, 2006.
• "How Cheney used the NSA for domestic spying prior to 9/11," Online Journal, January 21, 2006.
• "Prosecutor probing Niger forgeries, possible conspiracy in CIA leak," Online Journal, January 25, 2006.
• "Enron heads list of Bush administration scandals," Online Journal, February 1, 2006.
• "Enron: The Bush Administration's First Scandal," Dissident Voice, February 2, 2006.
• "A Night of Fear Mongering, Big Time," truthout (Peninsula Peace and Justice Center), February 2, 2006.
• "CIA Leak Scandal Goes to the Top," truthout (AlterNet), February 10, 2006.
• "Cheney spearheaded effort to discredit Wilson," Online Journal, February 11, 2006.
• "Gonzales Withholding Plame Emails," Countercurrents.org; Online Journal; Dissident Voice, February 16, 2006.
• "NSC, Cheney aides conspired to out CIA operative," Online Journal, February 22, 2006.
• "White House 'discovers' 250 emails related to Plame leak," Online Journal, February 28, 2006.
• "Details emerge in latest round of Plame emails 'found' by the White House," Online Journal; Dissident Voice, March 3, 2006.
• "Obstruction trial may jog Libby's memory," The Free Press, March 18, 2006; Online Journal, March 20, 2006.
• "GOP Bids to Take ANWR While Region was Ravaged by Major Oil Spill," ZMag, March 19, 2006.
• "Fitzgerald previews government's case against Libby," Online Journal, March 22, 2006.
• "Woodward's Plame-Leak Deep Throat," Countercurrents.org, March 26, 2006; Online Journal, May 23, 2006.
• "Fitzgerald Will Seek New White House Indictments," truthout, March 28, 2006; Online Journal, May 29, 2006.
• "State Department Memo: '16 Words' Were False," truthout, April 17, 2006; AlterNet. re Bush's 16 words
• "Grand Jury Hears Evidence Against Rove," truthout, April 20, 2006.
• "Fitzgerald Discovered Identity of CIA Leak Suspect Two Years Ago," OpEdNews (Political Affairs Magazine), May 5, 2006.
• "Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators," truthout, May 13, 2006.
• "Karl Rove Informs White House He Will Be Indicted," truthout (Political Affairs Magazine), May 14, 2006.
• "George W. Bush and Kenneth Lay," truthout (Scoop (New Zealand)), May 29, 2006. re Kenneth Lay
• "Sealed vs. Sealed," truthout, June 12, 2006. Also see Marc Ash's "06 cr 128", truthout, June 13, 2006.