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Widener Library worker Randy Fenstermacher makes a habit of reading everything he sees, so when his eye passed over a mysterious looking memo on the screen of a union executive’s computer last April, he couldn’t help but sneak a peek...
...White House meeting in late April opened with the presentation of a seven-page, single-spaced memo titled "Marginalizing Chalabi." Drafted by the National Security Council (NSC), the document detailed three options for sidelining the controversial Iraqi political figure Ahmad Chalabi--methods ranging from gently pushing him offstage to cutting off U.S. funds for his intelligence-gathering operation. Once a Pentagon favorite to lead Iraq, Chalabi had been criticizing Washington for dragging out the transfer of power to Iraqis. It was time for Chalabi...
...April memo marked the beginning of the White House's strategy to cut its ties to Chalabi--a campaign that reached its climax late last month when Iraqi police, backed by U.S. forces, raided the former exile's house and office in Baghdad. But that move hardly came out of the blue. New details of the relationship between the U.S. and Chalabi, provided to TIME by senior Administration and intelligence officials, reveal that after a decade of lobbying Washington, Chalabi began to lose his footing early this year after he ran afoul of President Bush and L. Paul Bremer...
...White to confess to using a series of banned drugs, accept a two-year suspension from the sport and agree to help with the investigation. Jones and Montgomery were among 27 athletes reportedly named by BALCO founder Victor Conte as having received THG, according to a federal investigator's memo. Conte denies making that admission. What the USADA showed Jones and her attorneys last week were BALCO notebooks that contain circumstantial evidence, such as a training calendar with the initials M.J. and letters whose meaning is not clear but that may be abbreviations for certain steroids. While that...
...CONTEXT: The charge is premature at best. A budget proposal for 2006 isn't due to be submitted until next February, eight months before the start of the fiscal year in October. Kerry's spokesman is alluding to an internal White House memo obtained by the Washington Post that warns federal agencies of potential budget cuts in the 2006 fiscal year. Among those, the Post reports, are $910 million in suggested cuts from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) budget. But that would follow a $519 million increase proposed by Bush for 2005. The Bush team says that since...