Graduates of the Cheers for Us School of Journalism (Motto: “Cheers for Us and All the Great Stories We Write!”) have been put off their self-congratulatory stroke by the rise of the “Downing Street memo” story on this side of the Atlantic.
Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, the first prominent Democrat to formally announce his intention to run for president in 2008, said Tuesday the U.S. military is overextended in Iraq and President Bush’s overly upbeat assessments of the conflict have created a “credibility chasm” that can be closed only if the president speaks in more candid and stark terms about the situation.
A week after comparing interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to the methods of Nazis and other repressive regimes, Sen. Dick Durbin apologized on the Senate floor.
U.S. lawmakers took aim at the Pentagon on Tuesday for hiding information from U.N.-mandated auditors about U.S contractor Halliburton, with Republicans calling it an embarrassment.
The White House Tuesday rebuffed Democratic calls for creation of an independent commission to investigate treatment of foreign terror suspects at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The United States wasted nearly $20 billion of Iraq’s funds in a spending spree the final days before transferring power to the Iraqis nearly a year ago, a report said on Tuesday.
A U.S. Senate Republican said Tuesday President Bush had privately encouraged him to introduce Social Security legislation that omits Bush’s signature proposal for private retirement accounts in a bid to break the legislative logjam.