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...angry." The story contained a detailed description, complete with a map, of the terrorist camps in Afghanistan that the CIA and Pentagon had targeted for destruction. Partly because the Bush White House runs the most tightly controlled message operation Washington has seen in decades, Bush was seething when Karl Rove and Karen Hughes, two top advisers, came to his office that morning. "An act of treason was committed in the newspaper this morning," he said...
...tone of things to come. The further Bush gets from Sept. 11, the more the numbers 2002 and 2004 will matter. Already, under pressure from Speaker Hastert, the President has quietly agreed to postpone any real push to reform Social Security until after next fall's election. Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, denies that Bush has changed anything on Social Security, but Hastert has told allies that he has the President's word. Bush told friends during the campaign last year that he had, at most, 18 months to get something done. Some Republicans believe...
...billion collapse of energy giant Enron are spreading to the White House. Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Bush's biggest donor, has many ties to Bush officials. Economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey and trade negotiator Robert Zoellick were once on the Enron payroll, and others, like political adviser Karl Rove, held sizable chunks of Enron stock. Now questions are being raised about the role Lay may have had in the energy task force overseen by Vice President Dick Cheney, which deliberated in secret and made policy proposals seen as friendly to industry. Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, has just written Cheney...
...passed through a paradigm shift. Over the weekend, the President's man Karl Rove went to Hollywood to talk to producers about hearts and minds, and the propaganda reels that might be made--new stories, new heroes, new villains. It's not hard to imagine the movie treatments being hammered out on a thousand keyboards now: "It started as an ordinary September...
...Rove's agenda is understandable: too much dire talk and people may desert the economy and lose interest in and support for the military campaign. "Some might ask why, in the midst of war, I would come to Dixie Printing," Bush said during a visit to a Maryland box-making plant on Wednesday. "And the answer is because we fight the war on two fronts. We fight a war at home, and part of the war we fight is to make sure that our economy continues to grow...