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...such campaigns can be executed with varying degrees of success, she said they are necessary to prevent leaders from becoming “a couple of guys in a back room,” deciding everything for the country. Fellow Benjamin Ginsberg, who was a counsel for both Bush-Cheney campaigns, said he found it “troubling” that politicians are forced to resort to campaign tactics to draw the public’s attention away from murder trials and other sensational news. Fellow Martin Frost, a former U.S. Representative, D-Texas, noted the current political polarization...
...critics are finally calling the Bush administration on its implicit contention that Congress’ Oct. 2002 vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq also hindered Congress’ right to evaluate the administration’s handling of the war itself. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have used the pro-authorization votes of individual senators and House representatives to cast doubt on the appropriateness of any subsequent criticism, changes in circumstances notwithstanding. But with Bush’s approval rating at 37 percent as of last week’s Gallup poll, even this goad will...
...With dissent over the Iraq war accelerating, Bush has started to make room for critics. In Beijing on Sunday, he eased his administration's sharp language of recent days, which included Vice President Dick Cheney's labeling of war critics as "reprehensible" and White House ripostes to the New York Times and Washington Post editorial pages. Cheney's remark prompted response from within the increasingly restive Republican Party. "People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq," Bush told White House reporters in Beijing. "I heard somebody say, 'Well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree...
...Woodward drew attention for withholding from his editor a conversation about Plame he had with an administration official in June 2003, and for publicly marginalizing the investigation's importance as recently as late October. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald empanelled a new grand jury to either revisit charges on former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby or perhaps seek new indictments. Karl Rove remains under investigation...
...made himself the Vice President in favor of torture." STANSFIELD TURNER, former CIA chief and president of the Naval War College, criticizing U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney last week on his efforts to water down proposed antitorture legislation...