Rather’s escape hardly does him credit. The report notes that he was overworked and distracted by other stories, but the CBS News Web site describes him as “immersed” in the details of his news show. The defense, in sum, is that he pretty much read what was put in front of him.
Quietly but decisively, President Bush’s top White House national-security and budget officials took a major step forward in the name of America’s homeland security. They did it by just saying no to the Pentagon neo-cons who – with costs of the un-won Iraq peace still soaring – had recommended a step backward in funding the program to secure Russia’s nuclear-weapons materials that remain vulnerable to terrorists.
Now that conservative commentator Armstrong Williams has been cast into the outer darkness for accepting $241,000 from the Bush administration in return for his support of the No Child Left Behind initiative, it’s time to ask some hard questions.
Former Democratic congressman Gary Condit has testified he never had a “romantic” relationship with Chandra Levy, a newly public deposition shows.
A former inmate at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison forced by U.S. guards to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men said Tuesday even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things.
President Bush warned younger workers on Tuesday of a grim future for their Social Security benefits but critics accused him of exaggerating the retirement system’s problems to try and sell his plan to change it.
At least a dozen cases of lasers being beamed into aircraft cockpits since Christmas are being investigated by the FBI.
President Bush’s second-term Cabinet will look roughly like his first – overwhelmingly male and mostly white, though Hispanics double their representation, to two.
Anxiety among President Bush’s Republican base about the elections and overall U.S. policy toward Iraq seems to be rising.