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...Clean Sweep HAITI Interim President Boniface Alexandre swore in a new government amid complaints from opposition politicians and the former ruling Lavalas Party that they had been unfairly excluded. Prime Minister Gerard Latortue said that his Cabinet - none of whose members is directly affiliated with a political party - is "nonpartisan" and should be judged by its results. Latortue criticized ousted leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide for visiting Jamaica after two weeks in exile in Africa , saying Aristide's return to the region might disturb Haiti 's "fragile order." MEANWHILE IN FRANCE ... I See Dread People A court in the southern city...
...plans to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies and includes a provision prohibiting government interference with these negotiations. TIME didn't tell its readers about the negotiations and characterized the provision (which originated in a plan developed by President Clinton) as preventing patients from obtaining savings. Yet Congress's scorekeeper, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, determined that this bill's approach--private plans driving hard bargains--achieves larger savings on drugs than do other approaches it reviewed. TIME also failed to mention that the provision protects seniors from the government's establishing a national drug list that restricts the medicines they...
Your article provided a thorough look at the leak that led to the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame [NATION, Oct. 13], the wife of Joseph Wilson, whose investigation found there was no attempt by Iraq to buy uranium in Niger. Some say the Democrats need to appear nonpartisan and temper their rightful outrage, but in truth it is up to the Republicans to demand a special prosecutor to investigate this serious matter. After all, Plame's role was to track any person or nation that might provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, something that is supposedly the Bush...
...Vengeance Your article provided a thorough look at the leak that led to the outing of cia operative Valerie Plame [Oct. 13], the wife of Joseph Wilson, whose investigation found there was no attempt by Iraq to buy uranium in Niger. Some say the Democrats need to appear nonpartisan and temper their rightful outrage, but in truth it is up to the Republicans to demand a special prosecutor to investigate this serious matter. After all, Plame's role was to track any person or nation that might provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, something that is supposedly the Bush...
...possibility that high officials broke federal law and endangered America’s national security demands that an independent counsel seek out the full truth. The counsel must be permitted to complete a full investigation, but should be nonpartisan, with stringent controls placed on the cost and duration of the inquiry to prevent it from devolving into a witch-hunt like the one perpetrated by former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr...