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Enemies Home And Abroad: Playing The Fear Card
by Madison Powers
The clear implication of the controversial Hillary Clinton “3 a.m.” attack ad is that Barack Obama is not ready to take on the role of commander in chief. He is inexperienced and these are too dangerous times to gamble on someone who is not tested.Recent remarks by Clinton in her stump speeches go further. Her expanded claim is that both she and her Republican rival John McCain are ready, but Obama may not be. The background assumption of these remarks is that these are dangerous times. And of course, that’s the premise of McCain’s whole campaign. | FBI Asked to Probe E-Mail Controversy
by Pete Yost
An ethics advocacy group asked the FBI on Wednesday to investigate the White House e-mail controversy, saying electronic messages about the Valerie Plame affair may have been destroyed.Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is basing its request on a White House document describing an effort to recover a week's worth of missing e-mail in 2003 from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. | New Evidence In Siegelman Case Points To Republican Cabal
by Sam Stein
A new review of evidence suggests that an aligned group of Republican interests were pressing for -- and seeking to profit financially from -- the trial of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on charges of bribery.According to court documents and official testimony, months before Siegelman was charged, Rob Riley, the son of the state's governor, expressed confidence that an indictment would occur and that Siegelman's political financier, Richard Scrushy, would be drawn into case. | Iraqis bury 10 after blast U.S. says killed no one
by Ahmed Rasheed
It was an incident that aptly summed up the fog of war in Iraq -- relatives burying nine women and a child they said were victims of a bomb attack on a bus in which the U.S. military said no one died.In Iraq, acts of violence are almost always accompanied by multiple accounts from witnesses, police, health officials and U.S. forces. But even by Iraqi standards Tuesday's attack on a bus full of mourners was a puzzle. | Dollar's clout sinks worldwide
by Alan Clendenning
Antique store owners in lower Manhattan, ticket vendors at India's Taj Mahal and Brazilian business executives heading to China all have one thing in common these days: They don't want U.S. dollars.Hit by a free fall with no end in sight, the once mighty U.S. dollar is no longer just crashing on currency markets and making life more expensive for American tourists and business people abroad; its clout is evaporating worldwide as foreign businesses and individuals turn to other currencies. | Bush Secretary Stumps For Hubby On Taxpayer Dime
by Jason Linkins
The folks at the pro-labor outfit Americans Rights At Work don't harbor a lot of affection for Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao. And why would they? Like many of Bush's "ironic" appointees - like Education Secretaries that hate public schools, Interior Secretaries that love polluters and Pentagon officials who like sending our troops to fight in intractable, endless wars, Chao is a Labor Secretary that hates laborers. She's sandbagged investigators looking into the Crandall Canyon mine disaster, doled out millions of dollars worth of suspect grants, and where bad policy decisions have failed to make her animus clear, she's taken to issuing insults. | Obama Challenges Clinton on Earmarks
by Sarah Wheaton
Senator Barack Obama announced today that, contrary to a position he has taken in the past, he is releasing all of his earmark requests, and he is challenging Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to do the same.Both Democrats have said they support a one-year moratorium on the spending allocations, a temporary ban that has been championed by Senator John McCain, a long-time foe of earmarks and the presumptive Republican nominee. The amendment is up for debate in the Senate, though it is seen as unlikely to pass. | Team Obama's memo: Maybe Hillary should cool it with the "experience" bragging
by Marni Soupcoff
The Hillary Clinton camp has argued over and over (and over) again that Clinton has a huge advantage over Obama because he has so little experience and she has so much. Well, if you believe this memo (via the Real Clear Politics blog) from the former director of the Policy Planning Office of the U.S. State Department, Clinton is greatly exaggerating her past role in foreign policy. It's worth reading the whole thing, but the highlights include: | The Torture Veto
by David Cole
George W. Bush made history on March 8, when he became the first American President to use the veto power to preserve the right to torture. Of course, he wouldn't put it that way--he prefers to call it "enhanced interrogation techniques." That sounds so much more civilized. But what, at the end of the day, is the difference? | Clinton's Mississippi Republicans
by Mark Blumenthal
Last week's column covered some of the nagging problems with exit polls and the way some of us, arguably, misuse them. This week, let's look at the reason exit polls are so vital and important to our understanding of elections, particularlyTuesday's Mississippi primary. | FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters
by Dan Eggen
The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal records of U.S. citizens rather than foreigners implicated in terrorism or counterintelligence investigations, and at least once it relied on such orders to obtain records that a special intelligence-gathering court had deemed protected by the First Amendment, according to two government audits released yesterday. | Public Is Less Aware of Iraq Casualties, Study Finds
by Karen DeYoung
Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while nearly half thinks the death tally is 3,000 or fewer and 23 percent think it is higher, according to an opinion survey released yesterday. | Afghan war trend worse than Iraq: U.S. trainer
by Mark Trevelyan
The tide of the war in Afghanistan is running against the United States and its allies, in contrast to an improving trend in Iraq, a U.S. military official and counter-insurgency expert said on Wednesday."Afghanistan (is) in my eyes an under-resourced war, a war that needs a whole lot more advisers, a whole lot more economic aid," Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl told a security conference in Stockholm. |
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