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Snow regularly finds himself at the outer edge of Bush country, his rhetoric having carried him past the safety of White House talking points. It is lonely out there. This Administration prides itself on message discipline; straying of any kind is usually punished: Adviser Larry Lindsey was fired in 2002...
The showmanship is a boon beyond the briefing room as well. Snow hit the campaign trail this fall, an unprecedented move for a White House press secretary. He headlined 17 fund raisers for G.O.P. candidates in the two months leading up to the midterms. Of course, it wasn't just...
Abizaid does get credit, in the view of his critics, for being more honest about the facts on the ground, in many cases, than his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In the summer of 2003, after Rumsfeld had denied Iraq was facing an insurgency, Abizaid made his first appearance in...
Saban has donated at least $3,000 to Harman's campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records, and the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, which he sponsors at the prestigious Brookings Institution, boasts Harman among its biggest fans. "When the Saban Center talks, I listen," Harman said at a...
I finished the briefing. Yes, I told the President, because of new regulations there was technically about $8 billion in existing funding that was now more accessible to faith-based groups. But, I assured him, those organizations had been getting money from those programs for years and it wasn't...