President George W. Bush’s recess appointment of ethically-challenged John Bolton as the new ambassador to the United Nations is a typical act of arrogant defiance from a man who believes he should be all-powerful and the checks and balances built into the U.S. Constitution are expendable when they conflict with his political agenda.
An ex-CIA agent, who told superiors in 2001 that Iraq had abandoned part of its nuclear program, is asking the FBI to investigate allegations that the spy agency dismissed him for refusing to falsify intelligence.
The Pentagon acknowledged on Monday that two former members of the military team handling prosecutions of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alleged last year that the trial system was rigged in favor of the government.
President Bush on Monday declared “complete confidence” in his top political adviser, scandal-scarred Karl Rove, despite his alleged role in leaking a covert CIA operative’s identity.
Dr. Bill Frist has discovered (if he hadn’t already) that the first rule of politics is: “What have you done for me lately?”
Growing up on a farm in the far reaches of western Kentucky in the 1950s, Joey Pendleton became acquainted with the intricacies of the annual burley tobacco crop as a young boy.
Treasury’s expected announcement Wednesday that it will revive the 30-year bond may help a debt-burdened Uncle Sam cut borrowing costs, but the decision stands to affect taxpayers, investors and pensioners too.
In directly installing John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, President Bush sent a strong message to the Senate and the United Nations that he wants a loyal and tough aide speaking for the administration as the United States conducts a war in Iraq and forces reforms on the world body.