Word: discredited
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...former top counterterrorism official who participated in the same conversations and meetings: Richard Clarke. In several cases, the version of events provided by Clarke this week include details and embellishments that do not appear in his new book, Against All Enemies. While the discrepancies do not, on their own, discredit Clarke's larger arguments, they do raise questions about whether Clarke's eagerness to publicize his story and rip the Bush Administration have clouded his memory of the facts...
...Nowhere do we see the President pointing fingers at or even sounding particularly "vigorous" toward Clarke and his deputies. Despite Clarke's contention that Bush wanted proof of Iraqi involvement at any cost, it's just as possible that Bush wanted Clark to find disculpatory evidence in order to discredit the idea peddled by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that Baghdad had a hand in 9/11. In the aftermath of 9/11, Bush rejected Wolfowitz's attempts to make Iraq the first front in the war on terror. And if the President of the United States...
...Cash, who also wrote the script with Larry Murray, gives his record and stage-show fans a treat: eight fine Christian songs, written by himself, John Denver, Larry Gatlin, Kris Kristofferson, Joe South and other top country singer-composers. But he also lays out the plot to discredit Jesus: "He's to be followed and spied on by the Scribes and Pharisees throughout His ministry." As Gibson's film does, Cash's puts the blame on a corrupt segment of the religious hierarchy. And in the last 20 minutes, "Gospel Road" gets around to the Passion. Jesus is lashed, kicked...
...comments. Long Wait for Justice ZIMBABWE The year-long treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai came to a close, with the judge not expected to rule for several months. Tsvangirai denies charges of plotting to murder President Robert Mugabe and says the government fabricated the allegations to discredit him. Better Than Nothing NORTH KOREA The second round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program ended in Beijing without a major breakthrough, although Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a statement saying that all parties had committed themselves to "a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula...
While there is no doubt that counterfeit and adulterated medicines--some potentially injurious, possibly even lethal--are sold over the Internet by unscrupulous vendors, a TIME investigation suggests the FDA'S actions against Canadian imports have been part of a concerted campaign to simultaneously discredit its counterpart agency in Canada, provoke fear among American consumers who buy their drugs there, blunt an exploding political movement among local and state governments to begin wholesale drug buys in Canada and ultimately preserve the inflated prices charged U.S. consumers and taxpayers...