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Rove has been thinking ahead at least since 1973, when he was elected chairman of the College Republicans on a platform of inclusion against a more purist conservative. He won that race with the help of a young South Carolina operative named Lee Atwater, who went on to become the take-no-prisoners strategist behind George Bush's winning presidential campaign in 1988. When he became chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1989, Atwater advocated a "big tent" philosophy for the party. Rove pushed the same philosophy after he opened a political-consulting business in 1981 in Texas, where...
...policymakers are betting that the latest saber rattling from Beijing, which includes veiled threats of military action against Taiwan delivered to U.S. think tanks and other outside China watchers, is an effort to pressure Washington to lean harder on Taiwan President LEE TENG...
Former Los Alamos security chief Robert S. Vrooman says he?s tired of hearing about the Wen that got away. So a week after Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recommended Vrooman be punished for botching the spying case against fired-but-never-charged Wen Ho Lee, Vrooman got on the phone with the Washington Post. He suggested ? nay, insisted ? that not only was the espionage case against Lee "built on thin air," but that the Taiwan-born scientist also had been scapegoated because of his race. Vrooman won?t get into the nitty-gritty of the case ? top secret...
Certainly, Lee?s case hit the papers at a time when the Cox committee was scouring the DOE?s shoddy security record and screaming for Asian heads. Not a good time for a Taiwan-born scientist to have broken so serious a rule. But Bob Vrooman?s heart isn?t bleeding, says Shannon ?- this outburst is more about covering Vrooman?s rear than saving Lee?s. "He was head of counterintelligence at a time when security at DOE was very sloppily run, and for him to say there were no significant problems is self-serving," she says. "Does Bill Richardson...
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