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...exactly a compliment. Over the last six months, the GOP has seemed to have nothing but lapses on that all-important front, from the deteriorating situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, and the Dubai ports deal, to new revelations about the President's role in the leaking of pre-war intelligence, his warrantless wiretapping program and, last week, Congress' inability to pass a border security bill...
...President Bush took questions from graduate students Monday, one of them raised a touchy subject that he had not yet publicly addressed - a court filing last week revealing that he had personally authorized the use of pre-war intelligence to rebut an administration critic. Bush said he would not talk about the court case of former White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, citing "a serious investigation." But the President did say why the White House had released part of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq when it was under attack by former ambassador Joseph Wilson and others...
...sheet titled "Dems' Declassification Hypocrisy" that Democrats were falsely attacking the President "for 'leaking' information that was declassified legally and appropriately." White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters this morning that he would not comment on an ongoing legal proceeding. But he added, referring to the imbroglio over pre-war intelligence back in the summer of 2003: "You will recall, if you go back to that time period that you are referencing, that we did declassify information ... in the National Intelligence Estimate, to provide that information to the public...
...years, Marktstrasse?the 0.5-km-long aorta of Hamburg's Karoviertel quarter?was a graffiti-covered jumble of secondhand shops and broken-down squats. Today, however, it is gentrifying rapidly. The designer boutiques are moving in and the area's refurbished pre-War fa?ades and newly planted square are becoming the stylish backdrop for Hamburg's pretty young things...
...arsenal. Wilson suggested that Cheney must have known before the war that the claims were bogus. People who worked with Libby tell TIME that he regarded Wilson's criticisms as part of a wider effort by the CIA to shift blame to the White House for the faulty pre-war claims about Iraq...