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George W. Bush made false claims citing faulty intelligence, during his campaign in 2002 to gain public and congressional support for an invasion of Iraq1. The faulty intelligence came through the “stovepipes” Bush’s administration set up to pump information from the intelligence gatherers directly up to the policy makers, bypassing the intelligence analysts2. [...]

Al Gore was instrumental in rescuing Katrina victims from New Orleans on the fifth day after the hurricane hit and destroyed the city1. Two days earlier, Dr. David Kline and his patients were stranded at Charity Hospital, with food and drinking water running short. Outside was four feet of floodwater and alligators eating [...]