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...That comment reflected the West Wing's exceeding bitterness about the report. Some of the pushback was substantive. The suggestions on how to engage directly with Iran and Syria--the parts resisted most unambiguously by the President--were surprisingly specific and prescriptive, not the platitudes the Administration had expected. Bush aides chafed at the patronizing directive "The President and the leadership of his national-security team should remain in close and frequent contact with the Iraqi leadership." Even some Democrats thought that Bush might have a point. "If you want to help the President," said Paul Goldman, a Democratic strategist...
...That's something that's worked back in D.C. I don't think that's something for me to comment on. We're working on our own portions of a plan, and I provide information to Gen. Casey on an operational level. I believe in the mission. It is what it is, and it is not going to lend itself to a timetable. It's just not. I personally would hate to see whether a timetable causes us to take actions on the ground that we know to be ill-advised...
...statement yesterday. “From his on-the-ground knowledge of lawmaking in Iraq to his historical research on religious freedom in the United States, his range is as wide as any in the legal academy,” Kagan said. Feldman could not be reached for comment yesterday. For months, rumors have swirled that Harvard had made a full-time offer to Feldman. As the Law School has become more active in the lateral hiring market, it has used visiting professorships to woo and assess promising scholars. Professors of Law Daryl J. Levinson...
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...which was recently upgraded after a new agreement on international standards with European countries, has come under increased criticism for knowing too much, being too secret, and not allowing passengers any recourse to challenge their risk assessments. This week, the DHS extended the deadline for public comment on the ATS system; most of the complaints have attacked the system on privacy grounds. The Identity Project, a privacy-rights group, has alleged that the ATS data collection is illegal. It claims that "Congress has expressly forbidden the DHS from spending a penny on any system like this to assign risk scores...