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Given the barrage of publicity and outrage that it has generated in the last day, you know what you're in for before you even crack the spine of What Happened, Scott McClellan's memoir of his nearly three years as George W. Bush's press secretary. It's not necessarily surprising that McClellan critiques his former co-workers. But the candor, anger and overall disappointment with which McClellan discusses President Bush and his policies is particularly surprising from someone previously presumed to be the most faithful of aides. On the fifth page of the preface McClellan bluntly writes, "History...
...someone whose chief job was spinning the press, McClellan seems surprisingly troubled by the way that politics dominates everyday governance. He claims to be especially concerned by the prevalence and toxicity of the "permanent campaign," where politics trumps policy on every issue. The architect of this was, of course, Karl Rove, whom McClellan praises in a variety off backhanded ways. "Karl Rove is not the problem," he writes. "Karl Rove did not create the excesses of the permanent campaign. Rather, the excesses of the permanent campaign created Karl Rove...
...begins in 2005, when Deutsche Telekom, the former German phone monopoly, was rapidly losing ground to new competitors. Management was under fire and sensitive information was showing up in a steady stream of embarrassing newspaper headlines. Telekom's management was determined to find out who was talking to the press and stop the leaks...
...need it. We need it now. We'll need it tomorrow. And we'll still need it decades from now. But we still can't get a deal done with Moscow. Not on oil and gas. We've talked and talked and talked - and issued to the international press a string of optimistic sounding half-truths for the last four years - but we still don't have much to show...
Russia's newly inaugurated President, Dmitri Medvedev, just completed his first state visit over the weekend. His choice of locale was not a surprise: Beijing. During the visit, there were predictable headlines in the press about Medvedev and President Hu Jintao denouncing U.S. plans for missile shields in both Europe and east Asia. The U.S. says they are to help its allies defend against possible attacks from Iran and North Korea. Moscow and Beijing don't really believe that, but the fact is, that train has left the station. Both countries, on their own, will have to decide...