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...Director George Tenet's resignation on Thursday may have preempted bipartisan calls for his head. As TIME reported last month, the Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing a report on the failures of the CIA's prewar intelligence on Iraq that will be so scathing as to undermine Tenet's credibility as an effective Director of Central Intelligence. So, although the second-longest-serving CIA director in history cited personal reasons for his resignation, and went with the blessing of President Bush, his job situation may have become untenable...
...ensure low income earners are not disadvantaged. These moves could substantially reduce the amount of oil the U.S. uses over the long run and reduce the exposure it has to political instability in the Middle East. The problem is that these kinds of changes need bipartisan political commitment, something that has sorely been lacking in Congress thus far. With an executive branch that is determined to force through a shopping list of gimmes likely received from energy industry groups in secretive consultations with Vice President Cheney and his energy taskforce, there is not much hope for decisive action on energy...
...despite resounding bipartisan support for the House measure, “only a small part of the House bill is currently included in the [Senate’s] defense department authorization bill,” said Sharra E. Greer, director of law and policy for the Servicemembers’ Legal Defense Network (SLDN), an organization that coordinates opposition to the Solomon Amendment and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...report of Bush's displeasure animated the Rumsfeld critics, who along with the press interpreted the move as an attempt to make him the fall guy for the growing scandal. Democrats may have, for the moment, saved the White House, which had begun to imagine the specter of a bipartisan consensus among nodding wise men that Rumsfeld, whom Bush never intended to remove, was finished. Instead, that claim was taken up vocally by partisan Democrats, including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and presidential challenger John Kerry. At the White House, officials exhaled, happy that the situation was playing out along...
...company boasts, provides users with a shortcut to information that would typically require 20 years' experience in political-campaign work to gather. Clients can search Aristotle's database of 157 million voters, campaign donors, fund raisers and others, drilling for untapped supporters. The company tries to be "scrupulously bipartisan," says a spokesman, and sees itself as a utility, similar to an Internet provider, that sells to anybody...