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Without Gonzales at the helm, the Justice Department would be more likely to approve requests for investigations into White House activities on everything from misuse of prewar Iraq intelligence to allegations of political interference in tobacco litigation. And the DOJ could be less likely to block contempt charges against former White House aides who have refused to testify before Congress. "Bush needs someone at Justice who's going to watch the White House's back," says a Senate Democratic Judiciary Committee staffer. If Gonzales steps down, Bush would lose his most reliable shield...
...June 18, Democrat Henry Waxman pulled back the veil on what she's been saying by releasing a 90-page deposition his staff conducted with her on May 10. The documents show Ralston and her lawyer playing a coy game, offering up unsolicited information on Rove's use of prewar Iraq intelligence, his conversations with Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame case and political briefings by the White House to agencies--but saying she can only give the committee a full look at everything if it will give her immunity from prosecution, should she become a target of an investigation...
...Japanese diet. Millions of Japanese schoolchildren grew up eating like their American counterparts, while the government told their parents that traditional Japanese food was nutritionally deficient. Between 1960 and 1996, rice consumption dropped by more than half, while intake of dairy products has increased 20-fold compared with the prewar years. "Children grew up not even knowing what a traditional Japanese meal looks like," says Ayako Ehara, a professor of home economics at Tokyo Kasei Gakuin University. "All these changes made it impossible for Japanese food culture to be passed from one generation to another...
...Which gets back to Tenet's own responsibility for what unfolded. At the heart of the book is a confession - but also an unconvincing argument. Tenet takes a lot of blame for the poor analysis of the prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. He explains how the CIA used unreliable sources and vague extrapolations to make a judgment about Saddam's arsenal that was little better than an educated guess. Nonetheless, Tenet says, he believed it. When it came time to make those conclusions public, the CIA (and everyone it was advising) wasn't very careful about...
...When it comes to his storied "slam dunk" comment in the Oval Office, Tenet does not deny saying it. He says instead that it was an aside and did not refer to the quality of the prewar intel. It referred instead, he says, to whether the President had the goods to make the public case for war. And the meeting in question was not about whether...