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...Estimate (NIE)--the consensus of intelligence agencies--on Iraq. The White House previously denied such a request, calling the document privileged. But a source familiar with the situation tells TIME that having voted to expand its inquiry to cover whether the White House hyped Iraq's WMD capabilities, the panel is poised "to again pursue those types of briefing materials...
...fleet of unmanned aircraft with which to deploy its chemical and biological arsenal. During a Feb. 5 speech at Georgetown University, CIA Director George Tenet cited the NIE, insisting, "Analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs, and those debates were spelled out in the estimate." The panel wants to see whether the caveats were included in the summary the White House got. If they were specified but ignored, the memo could embarrass Bush. If they weren't, it could embarrass Tenet. Either way, the memo could fuel the controversy swirling around how the White House made its case...
...Wednesday, PBS' Charlie Rose convened a panel of savants to hash out the controversy of the film's purported anti-Semitism and Gibson's provocative and defensive public statements. A hash some of them made of it. Leading the attack, Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens appropriated rhetorical tactics employed by both political fringes. Like some segments of the Christian right when Last Temptation and Dogma came out, he called for a boycott of a film he apparently had not seen. And he exhumed that favorite old pejorative of the Bolsheviks, fascist: he said the movie is "quite distinctly fascist...
Dershowitz, however, characterized the 15-judge panel of the ICJ as a “kangaroo court,” likening it to a southern United States court during an era of heightened racial tension...
...handle the case because its judges take orders from their governments and because no Israeli judge is allowed to serve on the panel, according to Dershowitz...