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Cases like Lee's are typical when political interests supercede the rule of law. Since 1996, the Clinton administration has been rightly criticized for its lackadaisical manner concerning Chinese gathering of American secrets. The 900-page Cox Report, unanimously approved by the bipartisan House Intelligence Committee, put enormous pressure on the White House to act. When political winds are swirling, the ability to conduct a thorough investigation is, to be sure, difficult. But to single out just one employee and saddle him with the blame is inexcusable. Even more worrisome is suspicion that Lee, a naturalized American citizen, was targeted...
That, in essence, is the concept behind the Medicare plan Texas Governor George W. Bush unveiled last week. But it is also the basic approach behind a bipartisan plan that has been languishing on Capitol Hill for more than a year. And it was the notion Newt Gingrich put forward in 1995 when he was House Speaker, setting up the political standoff that produced that year's infamous government shutdowns...
...would like to point out an omission in your editorial criticizing the Bush campaign's manipulation of the debate process for political advantage (Editorial, Sept. 13). In fact, both parties use presidential debates and the bipartisan (but not nonpartisan) debate commission to exclude smaller party candidates from the political process. The commission's current criteria for inclusion in the debates is 15 percent support in several pre-debate polls. This makes it impossible for a candidate, without a large amount of money to spend and without the free publicity the major party candidates receive from the news media and from...
...hemming and hawing, George W. Bush and Al Gore have agreed to meet in three debates and to send their running mates to duke it out in a separate rendezvous. The schedule, which sets the first meeting on October 3, is the same as that initially proposed by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates...
Senior aides to the Gore and Bush campaigns will sit down with the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates tomorrow to finalize the schedule and formats for a series of televised forums likely to be held early next month. It is clear, however, that the only party interested in haggling is that of the Texas governor. Vice President Al Gore '69 has rightly embraced the Commission's original proposal, which called for three debates at college campuses in Boston, North Carolina and St. Louis in early October. These debates, independently sponsored by the Commission, would be broadcast by all three major...