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...extravagance and very strange. Bush acknowledged that he had first heard in August that a new intelligence analysis of Iran's nuclear-bomb program was imminent, but - and here comes the strange part - he hadn't bothered to ask the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, what it might contain. "If that's true," Senator Joe Biden opined soon after, "then this is ... one of the most incompetent Presidents in modern American history...
...court documents do not contain evidence of a specific date or detailed plan. Perhaps the most dire charges are that Shnewer and Dritan and Shain Duka wanted to buy fully automatic guns...
...Iran shut down its nuclear weapons program back in 2003, reversing the findings of the 2005 NIE on Iran. U.S. officials have yet to disclose, even to their allies, precisely what intelligence may have led to the change of view. (A classified version of the NIE is said to contain up to 1,000 pieces of information in footnotes, including a telephone call in which an Iranian general expresses exasperation at questions about a program that he says stopped years before.) But while asserting that Iran may no longer have a weapons program, the new report also stresses that Iran...
When the Ebola virus resurfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year, health officials hoped to contain the outbreak to the east of the central African country, keeping it to a densely forested area accessible only through dirt roads and tiny villages. That epidemic, which was at its height earlier in the fall, saw 187 people killed and 267 more infected. But the extremely contagious disease, which has a 90% death rate, has now spread to neighboring Uganda, where a new strain of the virus has already killed 19 since September. Now, as the Ebola strain continues...
...often as I have from several of my opponents, you can't just absorb it - you have to respond." She has been particularly aggressive in going after Obama on health care, saying that his plan - the only one put forward by the top three contenders that does not contain a requirement that people buy coverage if their employers don't provide it - is timid...