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...Senate hearings this week, McConnell was asked by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, an advocate of the new law, whether the law, called the Protect America Act, helped with the German arrests. "Yes, sir. It did.... The ability to listen in on plotters.... allowed us to see and understand all the connections among members of the suspected terrorist cell," McConnell said. "Because we could understand it, we could help our partners through a long period of monitoring and observation." Critics, including several Congressmen, have argued that the most important intercepts in the German case were obtained before the updated...
...took three hearings before General David Petraeus finally got asked the most important question: Is the Iraq war, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee inquired at Tuesday afternoon's session, "making America safer?" Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, was uncharacteristically uncertain. "Sir," he said, "I don't know, actually." For many watching, that answer was a stark indictment of the Bush Administration's conduct of the war over the past four years, and the logic behind it. It may also have been taken as a slap in the face by family members...
There was a time when the Europeans scoffed at cigarette bans as the prerogative of prudish American hypocrites. But under the homogenizing pressures of the European Union, nearly every Western European country has adopted similar, if not more stringent, policies. The British banned the hoary pastime of Sir John Walter Raleigh last July; smoking indoors now carries fines of ?600 for the offending party, and twice that for the publican. The formerly indomitable French, for whom smoky left-bank cafés and ennui are cultural staples, will follow suit beginning January 1, 2008. And cannabis-fans in the once...
...room waited to see how the President would react, Hemming said he would welcome any questions or comments. Bush looked across the room at him and said, "Morale. How's morale?" "It's very good sir," said Hemming...
...ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE Nine years ago, Cate Blanchett brought her biopic of England's legendary Tudor queen to Toronto; this smart, stately film garnered seven Oscar nominations. Blanchett re-teams with director Shekhar Kapur for the sequel, about Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen...