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What worries Republicans in the short run is how the criticism has thrown the White House off its game. The normally consistent and disciplined p.r. machine has stepped in and out of explanations, depending on the day and the person making them. So bollixed up did Bush get last week...
Last week the White House finally admitted that Bush should have jettisoned the claim. Designed to end a long-simmering controversy, the admission instead sparked a bewildering four days of changing explanations and unusually nasty finger pointing by the normally disciplined Bush team. That performance raised its own questions, which...
It was only after an hour of broken dialogue, explanations that I had never seen the Pope and a coyness I’d been saving for just such an occasion that I won their affection, embodied within a meek (that’s one value these Papists had down...
--TREATING THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO AS FACT. One official said the process often went this way: the agency would send to the Pentagon three ways to interpret one piece of information, such as a new satellite photo or telephone intercept, and the Pentagon would always opt for the most dire...
The U.S. does appear to have one solid argument on its side: those mysterious mobile biowarfare labs. The CIA shared its findings with reporters last week about two tractor-trailer trucks seized in Iraq that it claims were designed for the production of biological weapons. The agency published a nine...