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...earlier to defend Dellums. Reyes has succeeded in pressing the Bush Administration to work through the courts to get permission to eavesdrop on e-mails and phone calls between Americans and people overseas. He also got the Administration to turn over records of the National Security Agency's eavesdropping plan. He has traveled to Iraq and Africa to look into the terrorism threat and hired a racially diverse staff that includes people with Arabic-language skills and a knowledge of Muslim culture. As one of his Republican committee members puts it, "He gets it." In the age of Barack Obama...
...Indeed, sources tell TIME Washington bureau chief Jay Carney that while the billionaire Mayor has not yet decided for certain that he will run, his becoming an independent now is part of his plan to make sure that the option is there. In order to collect the signatures to get on the ballot in various states as an independent, Bloomberg has to be officially "unaffiliated...
...Clearly Bloomberg does not plan to enter the race until he sees whom the major parties settle on as nominees, likely early next year. At that point, he would look to see how unfavorably those two candidates are seen, how sour the mood of the country is on politics-as-usual, and how open the electorate seems to a candidate Bloomberg himself describes as "a short, Jewish, divorced billionaire," one who has now turned his back on both the Democrats and the Republicans...
Offering a path from illegal to legal immigrant status is the issue is that defeated President George W. Bush's immigration reform plan in last year's G.O.P.-controlled Congress. House Republicans, and moderate Democrats, balked at granting any kind of "amnesty" - no matter how many tests the bill creates to make it "earned" citizenship...
...Will Petraeus' plan work? The ferocity of his fighting force - and of his own resolve - is not in doubt. Nor is there any question that al-Qaeda is at large in Diyala. The province, northeast of Baghdad, has become the main hideout of jihadi fighters driven out from the Iraqi capital and from Anbar province. U.S. forces there have had almost daily encounters with al-Qaeda amid the orange groves that line the Euphrates valley south of Baqouba...