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News that the government has been tracking Americans' phone calls created static in the Beltway and the blogosphere. Although we heard mostly from readers who charged Uncle Sam with putting constitutional protections on hold, some welcomed the data mining in the hope that it would yield a direct line to terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 12, 2006 | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...just possibly an extra-terrestrial in disguise and that the supermarket tabloids, with their giddy accounts of UFO landings and the births of two-headed cows , were truthfully reflecting our hidden reality while the New York Times, with its sober accounts of the doings of the inside-the-beltway?s real-life men in black, is entirely out to lunch. Sonnenfeld is a guy who believes that what?s left of America vitality - its life force, if you will - wears work boots, talks in a taciturn drawl and is not afflicted with attention deficit disorder when sex is mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Found in America | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

...made it clear that anybody who's thinking of leaving should do it soon. The resignation of Scott McClellan on Wednesday - along with expected announcements about rearranging the functions of the deputy chiefs of staff - is the stuff of classic housecleaning. But whether it does more than interest Beltway denizens or leads to any shifts in policy and revitalizes the Bush administration is another matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Spring Cleaning Isn't Likely to Boost the President | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...Harman of California. Reed is a serious, intellectually honest veteran and an expert on defense issues in the Senate, while Harman is an ambitious Harvard Law School graduate who is the ranking minority member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Both are credible and respected inside the Beltway, in their way. But they are far from household names, and neither inspires confidence outside Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Dems Win on National Security? | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

...These officials said Bolten, who comes on board April 15, plans to put some new faces in front of the public and on Capitol Hill. Bush, who retired to his Texas ranch for the weekend after a summit in Cancún, did not want it to appear that inside-the-Beltway carping had sparked a staff shuffle. Now it can be attributed to Bolten, who will add some meat to an election-year agenda that has disappointed even some of the President's most fervent supporters. Speaking of Bush's team, a Bolten friend said, "Josh thinks they need to communicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolten Tries to Right the Ship | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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