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The White House describes the number of Abramoff's meetings with staff members only as "a few," even though senior Bush aides have precise data about them. McClellan will not give details, saying he doesn't "get into discussing staff-level meetings." During a televised briefing, he added, "We're...
The Administration likes to stress that congressional leaders were briefed about the new program from the start. But some of them object that they were told about it under ground rules that made it impossible for them to mount any opposition. Daschle tells TIME that he, House Speaker Dennis Hastert...
During the two-hour drive from Montreal, where U2 played the previous night, Bono flips through manila folders full of briefing papers to prepare for meetings with Canada's opposition leaders. He fires a few croaky-throated questions at Drummond--"What is this soft-lumber argument between Canada and the...
The Institute of Politics (IOP) hosted a conference last week for 20 incoming mayors from large cities nationwide, featuring three days of workshops and seminars to help participants maximize their impact as city leaders. The Seminar on Transition and Leadership for Newly-Elected Mayors ran last Wednesday through Friday at...
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA was eager to whisk captured terrorists off to secret locations around the world where its operatives could interrogate them out of the reach of the U.S. legal system and human-rights organizations. But four years later, with about three dozen of al-Qaeda...