George Tenet, the former CIA director who assured President George W. Bush that finding unconventional weapons in Iraq would be a “slam dunk,” will give his account of the conversation in a book to be published by HarperCollins, the publisher said on Wednesday.
An early indication that the Bush administration would be flexible on conservative principles it found inconvenient came when then-Attorney General John Ashcroft sought to kill Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act.
A year ago, the idea that Congress would consider sharp curbs on lobbying would have been laughed off Capitol Hill.
Prosecutors in the case against Rep. Tom DeLay sought Wednesday to revive a criminal conspiracy charge against the former House majority leader.
Six former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency _ five Republicans and one Democrat _ accused the Bush administration Wednesday of neglecting global warming and other environmental problems.
White House claims that President George W. Bush doesn’t know corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff may soon rank up there with “I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” as a blatant public lie destroyed by mounting evidence.
Although White House spokesliar Scott McClellan claims lobbyist/crook du jour Jack Abramoff only met with administration staff two or three times, the scandal ridden buyer of influence enjoyed frequent private meetings with President George W. Bush, who referred to Abramoff as “one of this administration’s greatest friends.”
Most Americans, it’s a safe bet, probably don’t know that Canada has a national election next Monday, with the increasingly probable outcome that our friends and neighbors will have a new prime minister.
Recently, the 10-year-old daughter of a friend of mine spent several months being bullied viciously by three other fourth-grade girls. Several times a week, these girls would surround the victim on the playground or in the hallway, and bombard the girl with cruel remarks about her appearance, her clothes, her unpopularity, and who knows what other creative torments.
Let us begin with a reading from TV evangelist Pat Robertson, whose ministry appears to be dedicated to making Christianity look ridiculous, not that he knows this himself.