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...recent months the internal dynamic has shifted. Through the first term, Cheney's dominion over foreign policy was unchallenged. And while he remains the Administration's voice on national security, the ascendance of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the distraction of the CIA-leak investigation and public doubts about the handling of the Iraq occupation mean the Vice President often finds himself advocating rather than orchestrating. An overstretched military narrows Administration options; Rice talks often about realistic approaches, and the Administration is more willing to acknowledge the utility of allies and even the U.N. than to pursue the more confrontational...
...Libby trial may make Bush want to ensure some distance. Libby told Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigating the CIA leak that his "superiors" had authorized him to reveal classified information from a secret report about Iraq's weapons capability. Could Cheney have been one of those superiors? In his Fox interview, Cheney declared that "there is an Executive Order that specifies who has classification authority and obviously focuses first and foremost on the President but also includes the Vice President." In fact, a 2003 update of a 1995 Executive Order gives the Vice President additional authority over classification...
Though the exact cause of the flood is still unknown, a sewage leak was initially suspected...
...days later, at the House G.O.P. retreat on Maryland's Eastern Shore, after Bush told lawmakers that he had resisted briefing them to keep more program details from getting leaked, Wilson retorted that the original leak appeared to have come from his Administration and that Congress has a right and a duty to exercise oversight. "The men who wrote the Constitution feared most a strong Executive with control of a standing army," Wilson tells TIME. "Our Constitution is set up to protect all of us from tyranny...
...Then came the shocker. On Feb. 7, news leaked that Princess Kiko was pregnant-11 years after she last gave birth. To many, the timing of the leak (just before the bill's submission) and that of the baby's conception (just after the panel's recommendation) seemed, well, like happy coincidences. Koizumi promptly tabled the bill. If the child is a boy, traditionalists will know that their prayers have been answered. And if it isn't? Then they'll just have to offer up some more...