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Note: This is mainly a record of only U.S. political resignations and
deaths, with a few exceptions in the deaths category.
Page Under Construction - Updates
Ongoing
Denotes
dead links removed and/or replaced as of 10/03/04
| Part I - Resignations and Dismissals |
MILITARY / INTELLIGENCE / DEFENSE...
COL. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR - US ARMY
Maverick
colonel blames US army's 'sycophantic' culture and heavy-handedness for failures
in Iraq - June 9, 2004
GEORGE TENET - DIRECTOR, CIA
Tenet's
Perjury And Resignation
Coup
d'Etat
JAMES PAVITT - DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, CIA
Second
top-level resignation at CIA - June 4, 2004
Coup
d'Etat
KENNETH DeGRAFFENREID - PENTAGON, INTEL
The Gray Zone
RAND BEERS - NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
Rand
Beers
RICHARD CLARKE - DIRECTOR NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL/CYBERSPACE SECURITY
Attrition
Security Rant
Leslie
Stahl interviews Richard Clarke
VICTORIA CLARKE - DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
Pentagon
Spokeswoman stepping down - 6/16/03
J.D. CROUCH II - ASST SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
POLICY
Pentagon Hawk Released
– Straws in the Wind? - 10/31/03
GEN. WAYNE DOWNING - DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR COUNTERTERRORISM
Gen.
Wayne Downing: counterterrorism chief resigns - 6/27/02
GEN. TOMMY FRANKS - U.S. ARMY CENTCOM
Rumsfeld
Announces Franks' Resignation - 5/23/03
GEN. JAY GARNER
Exclusive
interview with: General Jay Garner
RICHARD HAAS - STATE DEPARTMENT
Loss of
key aide another setback for Powell
DAVID KAY - WEAPONS INSPECTOR
Inspector
Calls US Iraq Intelligence a Failure
KAREN KWIATKOWSKI - DoD NEAR EAST BUREAU
Goodbye, Mr.
President: the Secret Resignation Letters
ISAM AL-KHAFAJI - IRAQI RECONSTRUCTION COUNCIL
I Did
Not Want To Be a Collaborator - 7/28/03
BEN MILLER
FLYNT LEVERETT
HILLARY MANN
Two
U.S. Diplomats Resign over Iraq Stance
LT. JOHN OLIVIERA - U.S. NAVY
Navy
Public Affairs Officer Who Worked in Iraq Condemns President Bush & The
U.S. Invasion
JOHN O'NEILL - FBI*
O'Neill's
Life and Career
(Dead link replacement)
*See John O'Neill also in Part II - Deaths
RICHARD PERLE - PENTAGON ADVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN
Perle
Resigns as Chairman of the Defense Policy Board
JOHN M. POINDEXTER - DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
Poindexter
to Resign Following Terrorist Futures Debacle - 7/31/03
JACK PRITCHARD - STATE DEPARTMENT
Top
U.S. Expert on North Korea Steps Down
PAUL REDMOND - DEPARTMENT HOMELAND SECURITY
Top
Homeland Security Official Resigns Position
Riddle
As U.S. Spy Chief Quits
HOWARD SCHMIDT - CYPBERSPACE SECURITY / NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (see also
Richard Clarke)
White
House Cybersecurity Adviser Resigns - April 21, 2003
GEN. ERIC SHINSEKI - U.S. ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF
Gen.
Eric Shinseki Resigns - 6/10/03
LARRY THOMPSON - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
High-level
resignation at Justice Department - 8/12/03
Rep.
John Conyers Letter Regarding DoJ Handling of Enron (pdf)
Bush
Point Man on Corporate Crime Accused of Fraud
TOM WARRICK - STATE DEPARTMENT
Gen.
Jay Garner was forced to fire valued team member
THOMAS E. WHITE - U.S. ARMY SECRETARY
Ousted Army Chief
Blasts Bush Iraq Policy - 5/03
RABBI DOV ZAKHEIM - PENTAGON CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Pentagon
finance manager resigns
GENERAL ANTHONY ZINNI
General Anthony C. Zinni,
USMC
War Over President
Bush's Words Heats Up
WHITE HOUSE STAFF / DIPLOMATIC CORPS...
OTTO REICH - SPECIAL ENVOY TO LATIN AMERICA
Bush
Misled Public
CHARLOTTE BEERS - WHITE HOUSE PR
Bush
Misled Public
MARGARET TUTWILER - WHITE HOUSE PR
Promoter
of U.S. Image quits
TUCKER ESKEW - WHITE HOUSE PR
Promoter
of U.S. Image quits
JAYSON BLAIR
to replace
Fleischer
Eventual actual replacement: Scott McClellan
JOHN H. BROWN - U.S. DIPLOMAT
U.S.
diplomat resigns over Iraq war plans - 3/10/03
MITCH DANIELS - WHITE HOUSE BUDGET DIRECTOR
Why Did
Mitch Daniels Really Resign: Allegations of Insider Trading, Of Course!
WILLIAM FARISH - AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN
Goodbye,
Piccadilly
ARI FLEISCHER - WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
Fleischer
to Resign
The
resignation of Ari Fleischer: Bush’s official liar goes for the gold
- 5/23/03
TIMOTHY HANNAPEL - DEPUTY SPECIAL COUNSEL
Top two whistleblower
protectors resign - 5/12 03
R. GLENN HUBBARD - WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS
Last
Economic Adviser Resigns--Hubbard - 2/27/03
ELAINE KAPLAN - SPECIAL COUNSEL
Top two whistleblower
protectors resign - 5/12/03
JOHN BRADY KIESLING - U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GREECE
Career Diplomat
Resigns Over U.S. Policy on Iraq - 3/1/03
LARRY LINDSEY - WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ECONOMIC ADVISOR
O'Neill
and Lindsey submit resignations Friday - White House Financial Team Reshuffle
- 12/02
JOSEPH WILSON - U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GABON
Plame-Gate: Background
and Ongoing Coverage of Retaliatory Outing of Wilson's CIA Agent Wife, Valerie
Plame
MARY ANN WRIGHT - U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MONGOLIA
Diplomat
Mary Ann Wright Resigns - 3/19/03
TREASURY DEPARTMENT...
PETER FISHER - TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Treasury's
Peter Fisher Resigns
ROSARIO MARIN - U.S. TREASURER
U.S.
Treasurer to Resign - 5/22/03
PAUL O'NEILL - U.S. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
O'Neill
Calls Bush a Disengaged President - 01/10/04
O'Neill
and Lindsey submit resignations Friday - White House Financial Team Reshuffle
- 12/02
MARK WEINBERGER - TREASURY SEC'Y FOR TAX POLICY
Bush's top tax aide is quitting - 03/27/02
EPA...
BRUCE BOLER - EPA BIOLOGIST
Wetlands Pollute Study Okayed,
Clears Way for SW Florida Development - EPA Biologist Resigns in Protest
- 10/22/03
LINDA FISHER - DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, EPA
Second
Top EPA Official Resigns 7/11/03
ERIC SCHAEFFER - EPA OFFICE OF REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT
Study Finds
Top Air Polluters Closely Tied to Bush Administration
Goodbye, Mr.
President: the Secret Resignation Letters
CHRISTINE WHITMAN - EPA
Bush
Covers Up Climate Report - 9/21/03
"The email discusses possible tactics for...getting rid of EPA
officials, including...Christine Whitman."
RICH BIONDI
BRUCE BUCKHEIT
J.P. SUAREZ
3
Top Enforcement Officials Say They Will Leave
E.P.A. (Link repaired 10/03/04)
HEALTH / MEDICARE AND MEDICAID...
JANET REHNQUIST - INSPECTOR GEN'L HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Janet
Rehnquist Resigns - 3/4/03
THOMAS SCULLY - MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ADMINISTRATOR
Scully
Says Medicare [Plan]"Dumb"
TOMMY THOMPSON - SECT'Y HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Tommy
Thompson to Resign - 6/3/03
PATRICIA WARE - EXEC DIRECTOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HIV &
AIDS
AIDS
Panel Director Leaves, Deputy Secretary At HHS Resigns - 2/5/03
BUSH '04 CAMPAIGN ADVISERS and CHAIRS...
JIM TOBIN - NEW ENGLAND CAMPAIGN CHAIR
Bush's
New England campaign chief resigns over phone-jamming allegations (Oct 15,
'04)
Bush-Cheney
New England campaign chair Jim Tobin resigns over election tampering scandal
(Oct 15, '04)
MIKE ALLEN - SW OHIO CHAIRMAN
Employee
lawsuit: Allen coerced sex (Aug 27, '04)
COL. KEN CORDIER (RET.)
Bush
adviser quits after appearing in swift boat ad (Aug 23, '04)
BENJAMIN GINSBERG
Lawyer
Advising Vets Quits Bush Campaign (Aug 25, '04)
DEAL W. HUDSON
Adviser
to president quits over scandal (Aug 20,
'04) (Link repaired 10/03/04)
9/11
COMMISSION...
HENRY KISSINGER
SENATOR GEORGE MITCHELL
Kissinger
resigns as head of 9/11 commission
OTHERS...
REP DOUG BEREUTER (R-NEB)
Retiring
GOP congressman breaks ranks on Iraq
GOP
Congressman: War Was a Mistake
JOHN W. CARLIN - U.S. ARCHIVIST
Archivist's
Resignation Questioned
TERESA CHAMBERS - US PARK POLICE CHIEF
Ex-chief
of Park Police denounces firing
JOHN DiIULIO - OFFICE OF FAITH BASED INITIATIVES
The
DiIulio Resignation in Context
Why
Are These Men Laughing?
Shrub Time:
DiIulio Resigns Post
MIKE DOMBECK, FOREST SERVICE CHIEF
Goodbye, Mr.
President: the Secret Resignation Letters
ANDREW ELLER - U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE
Dissenting
Scientist Fired by Administration's Fish and Wildlife Service
RICHARD HERDMAN - SEC ACCOUNTANT
SEC
Chief Accountant Resigns
ED KAST - FLORIDA ELECTION CHIEF
Florida
elections chief quits - June 8,
2004 (Replacement link)
CHUCK MCGEE - DIRECTOR, NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Former
GOP consultant pleads guilty to jamming Democratic
phones (Dead link replacement)
DON NORTH - IRAQI MEDIA PROJECT
U.S.
Journalist Quits Pentagon Iraqi Media Project Calling it U.S. Propaganda
THEODORE OLSON - SOLICITOR GENERAL
Solicitor
General Theodore Olson to Step Down
MICHAEL PARKER - ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS (fired)
Bush
Fires Army Corps Chief after he fails to defend budget cuts - 3/6/02
HARVEY PITT - SEC CHAIRMAN
Harvey
Pitt resigns as SEC chief - 11/6/02
ABDEL BASSET TURKI - CPA HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER
ABDEL KARIM MAHUD AL-MAHAMADAWI
Second Iraqi minister
quits (Dead link replacement)
JACK WALTERS - BOONE COUNTY MISSOURI GOP CHAIRMAN
Our Country Above
Politics
WILLIAM WEBSTER - PUBLIC ACCOUNTING OVERSIGHT BOARD
William
Webster's resignation letter to SEC's Pitt
RICHARD S. LANIER - WHITE HOUSE CULTURAL PROPERTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MARTIN E. SULLIVAN - WHITE HOUSE CULTURAL PROPERTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
GARY VIKAN - WHITE HOUSE CULTURAL PROPERTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Three
Bush Advisers Quit Over Iraq Looting - 4/1/7/03
Other Sites Keeping Track
TV News Lies -
Resignations
Impeach
Bush
| Part II - Deaths: Political Suicide, Accident, Murder? |
PETER HARTMANN
Central
figure in cemetery probe found dead
Funeralgate
GUS W. WEISS - former White House policy adviser on technology, intelligence,
and economic affairs (11/25/03)
Top Secret Advisor To
4 Presidents Dies 'Violently' In DC
DON HOLLAND - (D)SC - U.S. Senator - (10/05/03)
S.C.
Sen. Don Holland, of Camden, dies at 75
MICHAEL HOLTON - UN security guard
Security Guard
Found Shot at United Nations
JOHN KOKAL - State Department Employee - Intelligence Div. (11/07/03)
The
death of Intelligence Official John Kokal - 11/22/03
Mystery
Surrounds Death of State Dept. Official
State Dept.
Worker Found Dead Outside Agency
Missing
Computers - Dead Bodies at the State
Dept. (Repaired link)
Police Investigate
Death of State Dept. Employee
SALEM BIN LADEN
The Strange Death of
bin Laden's Brother in Texas
COLIN MCMILLAN - Bush nominee for Navy secretary
Bush Nominee for Navy
Sec. May Have Killed Self
JOHN O'NEILL - FBI
New light
on the life and death of John O'Neill
Remember John
Who Killed John
O'Neill?
Why
Is O'Neill's Family Suing Iraq?
MARGIE SCHOEDINGER - woman who filed sexual lawsuit against George W. Bush
in '02 (11/12/03)
Texas Woman's
Lawsuit Alleges Bush Sexual Assault
In the western world,
only one newspaper reports the suicide of the woman who accused George W
Bush of rape (12/13/03)
PAUL WELLSTONE - (D)MN - U.S. Senator
Evidence mounts
that Paul Wellstone was murdered
The death
of US Senator Paul Wellstone: accident or murder?
Paul Wellstone
Murder - 10/02
What Happened
to Paul Wellstone?
Prominent Democrats Die Disproportionately in Small Plane Crashes:
Was Paul Wellstone
Murdered?
ENRON CONNECTIONS...
J. CLIFFORD BAXTER - ENRON
The Strange
and Convenient Death of J. Clifford Baxter
The
Mysterious Death Of An Enron Exec
JAKE HORTON - GULF POWER
A high
price to pay for the power and the glory
CHARLES DANA RICE - EL PASO CORP
Utility Executive
Dead in Apparent Suicide
JAMES WATKINS - ARTHUR ANDERSEN ACCOUNTING FIRM
Gunshot caused death of Denver
consultant
AWOL CONNECTIONS...
SID ADGER
LT. COL. WILLIAM HARRIS, JR.
LT. COL. JERRY KILLIAN
GENERAL JAMES ROSE
A Roster of the
Dead
Other Sites Keeping Track
Dead People With Connections
to the Bush Dynasty - Rense.com
Bush Death List
| Part III - Deaths: Journalists & Editors Killed by U.S. & coalition military or other in Iraq |
MAZEN AL-TUMEIZI
Al-Arabiya reporter killed,
two other journalists wounded in
Baghdad (Dead link replacement)
ENZO BALDONI
Italian
FM condemns hostage killing
MAHMUD HAMID ABBAS
Journalist
killed in Fallujah
SHINSUKE HASHIDA
KOTARO OGAWA
Two Japanese journalists killed in attack near Baghdad
RASHID HAMID WALI
Aljazeera
crew member killed in Iraq
WALDEMAR MILEWICZ - CORRESPONDENT
MOUNIR BOUAMRANE - PRODUCER
US
Forces Tighten Grip Around Najaf
ALI al-KHATIB
Iraqi
Reporters Rebuff Powell, Leave News Conference
ALI ABD al-AZIZ
Iraqi
Reporters Rebuff Powell, Leave News Conference
US
admits killing Arab journalists in Iraq
RICARDO ORTEGA
U.S.
Marines open fire in Haiti
JOSE COUSO
Journalists
Under Fire: The Death of José Couso in Baghdad
Jose
Couso killed in an attack allied against a hotel of Bagdad
MAZEN DANA
U.S.
troops 'crazy' in killing of cameraman
TERRY LLOYD
FRED NERAC (Cameraman)
New
Investigation Says U.S. Helicopter Gunship Killed ITN Reporter Terry Lloyd
- 9/25/03
TARAS PROTSYUK
Taras
Protsyuk Reuters Television cameramanwas killed in Baghdad
AHMED SHAWKAT (Editor)
Call for investigation
into killing of newspaper editor; US soldiers and Iraqi police urged to stop
detaining journalists - 10/28/03
RICHARD WILD (Journalist)
Was our
son murdered by the CIA?
Other Sites Keeping Track - Deaths of Journalists in Iraq by any agency
Journalists
Killed Since Iraq War Began
Media
Coverage of the War
Journalist Death
Toll in Iraq Doubles Overnight
| Part IV - Deaths: Scientists (Microbiologists, Geneticists, Infectious Disease Experts) |
DR. PAUL NORMAN - 7/04
Another Top Bioweapons Expert
Killed
DR. MICHAEL KILEY- 1/04
Michael
Patrick Kiley, 62, Dies
DR. ROBERT E. SHOPE - 1/04
Robert
Shope, 74, Virus Expert Who Warned of Epidemics,
Dies (Dead link replacement)
DR. ROBERT BURGHOFF - 12/03
Chemist
was killed in Medical Center
DR. MICHAEL PERICH - 10/03
West.
Nile Researcher formerly working at Ft. Detrick dies in one-vehicle
crash (Dead link replacement)
DR. DAVID KELLY - 7/03
Microbiologists
With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up Dead
David
Kelly could not have bled to death
The
Murder of David Kelly
DR. LELAND RICKMAN - 6/03
In Memoriam:
Leland Rickman
DR. STEVEN MOSTOW - 3/02
Victims Identified in Fatal
Plane Crash
DR. DAVID WYNN-WILLIAMS - 3/02
Another Top
Microbiologist Dies - 12 in the Last Five Months
DR. TANYA HOLZMAYER - 2/02
Pizza Delivery
Man May Have Been Ambush
DR. GUYANG HUANG - 2/02
Pizza Delivery
Man May Have Been Ambush - Suspect Later Found Dead
DR. VICTOR KORSHUNOV - 2/02
Victor
Korshunov
(Dead link replacement)
DR. IAN LANGFORD - 2/02
Death
of UEA Scientist 'Not Suspicious'
Kelly's Death
Linked With Langford's Says Jane's Editor
DR. IVAN BLEBOV - 1/02
DR. ALEXI BRUSHLINSKI - 1/02
More Dead Scientists
(Dead link replacement that includes Dr. Brushlinski - The original
Pravda report that named Dr. Blebov is no longer working, and another
link has not yet been found)
DR. ROMAN KUZMIN - 12/01 (Surgeon)
Russian Surgeon,
24, Dies on Highway While Fleeing Police
DR. ROBERT SCHWARTZ - 12/01
Allegations
aired in Loudoun murder
(Dead link replacement)
DR. BENITO QUE - 12/01
Scientists
Deaths Are Under the Microscope
DR. SET VAN NGUYEN - 12/01
W
CSIRO commits to safety
changes (Dead link replacement)
DR. AMIRAM ELDOR - 11/01
BMJ
Obituaries
DR. DON WILEY - 11/01
Has Professor Wiley
Been "Disappeared"?
DR. JEFFREY P. WALL - 11/01
Another
Microbiologist Dies
DR. VLADIMIR PASECHNIK - 11/01
Revealed - Another
Top BioWarfare Scientist Murdered
DR. YAACOV MATZNER - 11/01
Pilots criticise
Zurich crash
runway (Dead link replacement)
Microbiologists
Beware (Dead link replacement)
Other Sites Keeping Track
Down
With Murder Inc.
Democratic
Underground Forum Post
Dead
Scientists DO Tell Tales
Dead Scientists
List of Murdered and Missing
Scientists
Who and Why: Missing/Dead
Scientists
(Repaired link)
The Very Mysterious Deaths
of Five Microbiologists
A Career in Microbiology
Can Be Harmful to Your Health - Especially Since 9/11
Death Toll Mounting As
Connections to Dyncorp, Hadron, Promis Software and Disease Research
Emerge
The Anthrax X-Files:
Spreading the Disease
| Part V - Deaths: Jessica Lynch Rescuers/Connections |
JOSH DANIEL SPEER - U.S. Marine - Car crash into tree 7/03
Iraq
war veteran killed in Highway 11 wreck
DAVID TAPPER - Navy Seal - Wounds received in Afghanistan 8/08/03
David M. Tapper
(Dead link replacement)
SOK KHAK UNG - U.S. Marine - Drive by shooting 10/03
Funeral
for Marine Who Survived Iraq, But Not Long Beach
SPC KYLE WILLIAMS - Apparent suicide and murder suspect - 10/03
Suspect
in motel slaying found dead
| Part VI - Deaths: American Troops & Civilian 'Colateral Damage' |
Other Sites Keeping Track
Military City - Faces
of Valor
Calendar of U.S. Military
Dead in Iraq War
Faces
of the Fallen
Iraq Body Count
U.S. &
Coalition Casualties
Casualties in Iraq - the Human
Cost of Occupation
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