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...Accountability Office investigation which had faulted the Bush administration for preparing news summaries that were published without attribution to the government. In an age of global media, there were also worries that “news” placed abroad might make its way back into the U.S., running afoul of prohibitions on government propaganda in America. Others, including a senior Pentagon official, cited the fundamental credibility gap between an America that proudly champions the freedom of the press and an administration that feels no compunction about subtly subverting it in a foreign country...
...Governor was widely considered an inept, ineffective leader even before he ran afoul of the law. As Ohio's manufacturing economy shriveled, his most identifiable initiative was a minuscule literacy campaign. The worst may lie ahead for Taft, who has 14 months remaining in his term. He faces a lawsuit alleging that he and other state G.O.P. officeholders awarded generous public contracts to campaign contributors...
...aides with security clearances to attend hourlong "refresher lectures" on ethics this week, says no such discussions have begun. But people who know Bush well tell TIME that he may follow the example of previous Presidents who have used the end of their terms to pardon loyalists who ran afoul of the law while doing political battle. Meanwhile, Bush's appetite for pardons is growing: after granting none in 2001 and 2002, he approved four in 2003, 22 in 2004 and 29 this year. And Libby, a lawyer, knows the ropes. He called his client, fugitive financier Marc Rich...
It’s a dangerous time to be a journalist. Sen. Joseph McCarthy is at the height of his tyranny, ruining supposed Communists’ lives without a shred of evidence. Constitutional freedoms provide little reassurance to those who run afoul of his partisan rage. While the nation remains in an open-ended war against a shadowy ideology, nobody wants to sound subversive...
...Egyptian lawyer and diplomat who has led the Agency since 1997 and was recently reelected to a third four-year term, has not enjoyed the full confidence of the Bush administration, which initially sought to have him replaced when his second term expired. ElBaradei fell afoul of the administration in 2002, when the U.S. was seeking UN support for action against Iraq. The Bush case was not helped by ElBaradei telling the Security Council that his inspectors had found "no evidence" that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted a nuclear program...