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...Outing an undercover CIA officer to help one's boss shouldn't be protected by the First Amendment. It would be a travesty of the concept of a free press. False leaks are lies. Press manipulation has been a common tool of this Administration. Martin Santry West Cape May, New Jersey...
...during the latest round of negotiations in Beijing ("they kept us up very late," Hill later joked), the State Department diplomat was able to return to his hotel shortly before 3 a.m. with a deal in hand. Hill wasn't the only U.S. official consumed by the talks. His boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, called him 12 times in three days to check the progress of negotiations. "He thought he had a tentative agreement," Rice told reporters at a Feb. 13 press conference in Washington. "And I called him at 4:15 this morning just to make sure...
...that changed. Shortly before 3 a.m., the U.S. negotiator returned to his hotel room in Beijing with a deal in hand, thanks to arm twisting of North Korea by the Chinese. "They kept us up late," Hill said later. He wasn't the only one losing sleep. His boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, phoned him at 4:15 in the morning Washington time to go over final details, checking in with Hill for the 12th time in three days. "He thought he had a tentative agreement," she told reporters Tuesday, "but I called him ... to make sure...
Thank God for Judi Dench. As long as she is around, giving people a steely gaze and telling it like it is, whether as James Bond’s cantankerous boss in “Casino Royale” or as the “battle axe” of a schoolteacher she plays in “Notes on a Scandal,” there will always be films worth seeing. Not that there aren’t other reasons to see “Notes on a Scandal.” Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy (whom viewers...
...player. Indeed, he is the third bit player in the Iraq fiasco to be paying for the sins of his superiors recently. For a couple of weeks now, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been in the dock in federal court in Washington, trying desperately to keep his one-time boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, from being stained by the responsibility for Libby's chats with reporters and government officials about Valerie Plame's CIA job. Then, just yesterday, Army General George Casey was raked over the coals by Senators who didn't think his past 30 months in command...