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...number of people exposed to anthrax on Capitol Hill was mushrooming, and the leaders with whom he had breakfast that morning were thinking of a temporary lockdown on Capitol Hill. Bush called the Vice President to get an update on the victim count as he flew to his airplane. "Dick, Daschle says there are thirty people," said Bush, "but Ari has other information. Get with Ridge and get on this...
...that required an appearance by the President. The topic wasn't the swelling anthrax anxiety, but America's first casualties. Bush had heard the news long before the aides traveling with him. Up at a little after 4 a.m., he had been calling back to Washington. From Vice President Dick Cheney and others he learned that two servicemen had died in a helicopter crash in Pakistan and that the first major ground incursion into the heart of Taliban held territory was under way. He didn't gather his team staying with him but instead, at 5:30 went...
...tracking down terrorists' assets, know-your-customer laws for banks and an array of other tools on law enforcement's wish list. The antiterrorism bill the Bush Administration sponsored, augmented by tough money-laundering provisions proposed by Democrats, sailed through the Senate. But late last week House Republican leaders Dick Armey and Tom Delay thwarted efforts to include an anti-money-laundering bill in the chamber's antiterrorism legislation, sources tell TIME, endangering the entire banking reform effort...
...excess. Is al-Qaeda trying to panic U.S. journalists into doing the terrorists' work for them, spreading the fear that has now hit them where they work? Addressing the possibility that the anthrax scare is a follow-up to the attack on the World Trade Center, Vice President Dick Cheney wondered aloud, "Are they related? We don't know. We don't have enough evidence to be able to pin down that kind of connection. But...we have to be suspicious...
...rejecting UNSCOM inspections. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Colin Powell has pressured Russia to change its stance, but so far he has met with resistance. Within the Administration, a battle is raging between Powell and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who proposes bombing Iraq for harboring terrorists. Dick Cheney is said to have sided with Powell, though that could change if new evidence points to an Iraqi role in the events of Sept...