These are primarily political articles that have some sort of media angle. The criteria for collecting these articles was that the media had to be implicated in some way, which is why there is not as much here about, say, Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib. But there are plenty of articles discussing either elements of the press or the Bush administration's often caustic relationship with the press, and through that medium, the public.
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Voters' Talk Shows Bush Retains Support (Oct. 23, 2003)
- Salon.com: Halliburton's Iraq Gravy Train (Feb. 27, 2004)
- New York Times Magazine: Without a Doubt (Oct. 17, 2004)
A report about faith-based approaches to international policy, with the now-fomouse rebuke of the "reality-based community."
- Lawrence Journal-World: Carl Bernstein -Watergate Journalist Says Media Losing Public's Interest (April 16, 2005)
- Washington Post: The Downing Street Memo (June 28, 2005)
A British 2002 memo leaked to The London Times depicting prewar meetings that show an invasion was planned long before it was brought to the public
- Time: Inside the Mind of a Suicide Bomber (July 4, 2005)
A profile of a suicide bomber in Baghdad
- Newsweek: American Contact: A U.S. Citizen with Ties to Bin Laden Now Works for Iraqi Government (Aug. 10, 2005)
- Washington Post: A Side Issue With the Plame Case (Aug. 11, 2005)
Who sent her spouse to Africa?
- Salon.com: I Invaded the White House Press Corp (Aug. 27, 2005)
- New York Times: Times Reporter Free from Jail, Will Testify (Sept. 3, 2005)
On NY Times reporter Judith Miller publishing disinformation from White House without editorial oversight; linked to Plame case
- ABC News: Colin Powell on Iraq, Race and Hurricane Relief (Sept. 9, 2005)
Interview
- New York Times: Powell Calls UN Speech a Blot on his Record (Sept. 9, 2005)
- Washington Post: Security Contractors in Iraq Under Scrutiny After Shootings (Sept. 10, 2005)
- Washington Post: Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets (Sept. 25, 2005)
On the largest demonstration in D.C. since the invasion
- Washington Post: NY Times Reporter Released from Jail (Sept. 30, 2005)
On Judith Miller testifying about publishing disinformation; linked to Plame case
- Foreign Affairs: Can Democracy Stop Terrorism? (Sept./Oct. 2005)
- Time: Professor of Death (Oct. 17, 2005)
A feature on a man who trains suicide bombers, notable for the distinction made between insurgents and terrorists
- Salon.com: All Spin All the Time -The Colbert Report (Oct. 18, 2005)
- New York Times: Cheney Told Aid of CIA Officer -on the Valerie Plame case (Oct. 25, 2005)
- Washington Post: CIA Leak Linked to Dispute Over Iraq Policy (Oct. 25, 2005)
On the Valerie Plame Case
- Washington Post: CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons (Nov. 2, 2005)
- Slate: President Cheney -His Office Really Does Run National Security (Nov. 7, 2005)
- LA Times: Senators Turn Up Heat on Oil Execs (Nov. 10, 2005)
- New York Times: Bush Seeks to Restore Credibility (Nov. 11, 2005)
- The Nation: Bush Rewrites History to Criticize his Critics (Nov. 11, 2005)
- Washington Post: President Bush's Veteran's Day Speech (Nov. 11, 2005)
- Washington Post: Bush Spars with Critics of the War (Nov. 12, 2005)
- A Collection of Articles on the Administration's Response to Criticism
Washington Post: Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq Argument (Nov. 12, 2005)
New York Times: A Reminder of How Debate Over Prewar Intel Continues to Shadow Bush (Nov. 15, 2005)
Knight-Ridder: Bush Team Confronting War Critics (Nov. 17, 2005)
Washington Post: Cheney Unleashed (Nov. 17, 2005)
- LA Times: Probe Finds Former Chair of Corp. for Public Broadcasting Broke Law, Played Politics (Nov. 16, 2005)
- Washington Post: Document Says Oil Chiefs Met with Cheney Task Force (Nov. 16, 2005)
- Rolling Stone: The Man Who Sold the War (Nov. 17, 2005)
- Washington Post: Paper Says Bush Talked of Bombing Arab TV Network (Nov. 23, 2005)
- New York Times: Special -The Secret History of the CIA in Iran (Nov. 25, 2005)
- Commentary: Who Is Lying About Iraq? (Dec. 2005)
A neoconservative response
- The New Yorker: The Murrow Doctrine: Why the Life and Times of the Broadcast Pioneer Still Matter (Jan. 16, 2006)
- New York Times: Warm and Fuzzy TV, Brought to You by Hamas (Jan. 18, 2006)
- New York Times: Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says (March 27, 2006)
Like the Downing Street Memo, this is another leaked memo depicting the plans for invasion. This memo discloses a suggestion by President Bush to paint a U.S. surveillance plane to look like a UN plane and fly it into Iraq to provoke an attack, thus giving us a rationale for invasion.
- New York Sun: Bush Authorized Plame Leak to Times (Apr. 6, 2006)
- Washington Post: Bush Authorized Iraq Intelligence Leak (Apr. 6, 2006)
- Salon.com War Room: What the Libby Testimony Proves (and Doesn't Prove) (Apr. 6, 2006)