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...result of the limitations imposed by the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, no individual donation came to more than $2000, and many were for as little as $250. But many donors said that when it comes to campaign contributions, size doesn’t matter...
...clear that the real story is much more unsettling. The blunt conclusion of the bipartisan House and Senate joint inquiry into the causes of 9/11, released last week, was that while no one in the government "identified the time, place and specific nature of the attacks," the government lost repeated opportunities to detect, if not disrupt, the hijackers...
...these calls, partly because Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has no intention of giving away power without a fight and partly because the White House has no desire to pick a fight with him. It was therefore striking that the Pentagon came under such heavy fire in last week's bipartisan report for resisting requests made by CIA Director Tenet before 9/11, when the agency wanted to use satellites and other military hardware to spot and target terrorists in Afghanistan...
...hadn't given the agency the authority to require such tests, and in October 2002 a federal judge agreed. Last week the Senate, in a unanimous voice vote, moved to reverse that decision, passing a bill allowing the FDA once again to require the tests. The rare show of bipartisan unity on a health-care issue bodes well for the nation's children: the measure now moves to the House carrying emphatic FDA support. --By Eric Roston
...Bush Administration worked for nearly a year to prevent bipartisan congressional investigators from probing the causes of the Sept. 11 attacks. But almost two years after the tragedy, the investigators' heavily sanitized declassified report will be released this week. Many of the panel's findings will remain secret; Administration officials refused to declassify large portions of the 900-page report. The public version will conclude that U.S. officials could not have prevented the tragedy, but it will criticize government agencies for being asleep at the switch during the two years before the attacks. The FBI failed to notice that terrorists...