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...diplomatic difficulties for an administration whose stake in the Middle East has grown exponentially since it took possession of Iraq. At the same time, Sharon is keenly aware of the strongly pro-Likud sentiment of the hawkish faction of the Bush administration, which together with the overwhelming support on Capitol Hill for his own policies has given him the freedom to cherry-pick U.S. positions. Even his embrace of the roadmap has been partial and conditional, and he claims to have achieved understandings with Washington that issues such as the settlement freeze - which Sharon finds politically difficult...
...feds are having more problems with air-security personnel. At a hearing on Capitol Hill last week, aviation-security experts and Congressmen were surprised when it was disclosed that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency that protects the nation's air-traffic system, had to fire more than 1,200 airport screeners because security checks had turned up problems, including felony convictions, in their backgrounds. The TSA also admitted that it still has not completed background checks on 22,000 screeners, almost half the 52,000 screeners who are supposed to be helping guard the country's aviation system...
Over the past two weeks, TIME has interviewed several dozen current and former intelligence officials and experts at the Pentagon and CIA and on Capitol Hill to try to understand how the public version of the intelligence got so far ahead of the evidence. The reporting suggests that from the start the process was more deductive than empirical. According to these officials, three factors were at work...
...complicated from the start. Doctors and lawyers spend heavily to protect their interests on Capitol Hill. The American Medical Association contributed $2.7 million to candidates in the 2002 congressional elections (60% went to Republicans), and the Association of Trial Lawyers gave out $3.7 million (89% went to Democrats). Feinstein was hit from all sides. Senate Democrats, most of whom oppose curbs on jury awards, were angry with her for breaking ranks. Lawyers' groups and consumer activists complained that the caps discriminated against low-income victims of malpractice. Some said she couldn't be objective because her late husband had faced...
Washington will also be expected to pick up most of the tab on an occupation mission whose cost has not yet been revealed to Capitol Hill, although current estimates run upward of $45 billion for the first year. And having accepted the role as Iraq's effective government for the next year and quite probably beyond, the Bush administration now finds itself confronting problems quite familiar to the Arab leaders with whom he met on Tuesday in Egypt: How to foster democracy in a context where the majority of voters may well favor extremists; how to create legitimate institutions...