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This much you can count on: the fallout from exposure of the NSA surveillance program will be with us for months to come. Republican Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has already announced his intention to start hearings this month to find out just what the NSA is up to and whether acting without warrants was really necessary. In addition, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees are almost certain to make deeper inquiries. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is launching an investigation of its own, into how word of the secret program was leaked to the Times. Justice officials...
...other people. Even matters of our own life and death. We think about stem-cell research because Michael J. Fox or Nancy Reagan talks about it. We put off colon-cancer checkups or mammograms, and then get them because Katie Couric reminds us to. Think about that one: the specter of our own slow, painful deaths is not itself enough for us to get a simple test. But the nice lady from the Today show tells us to do it, and suddenly we're there...
...Morales promised recently that should he be elected president of Bolivia on Sunday, he would be "a nightmare for the U.S." Bolivia, as the second poorest nation in the hemisphere, is an unlikely specter disturbing Washington's dreams. But he could, nonetheless, present a similar nuisance value in Washington to that of his self-proclaimed ?model,? Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez. For one thing, Morales wants to fully legalize the growing of coca, the plant from which cocaine is derived, reversing decades of U.S. efforts to eradicate the crop in Bolivia. And he also hopes to nationalize the tens...
Whatever shifts may be taking place within the inner circle, the Bush operation remains frustratingly insular to its Republican allies outside the White House. When Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter wanted to have a private word with the President last week about the extension of the Patriot Act, he put on a tuxedo and waited in line at one of the White House Christmas parties. But Specter denies any suggestion that Bush has been distant and says the President remains confident and sunny, needling Specter about his raggedy trench coat during a trip to Pennsylvania: "Arlen, we're going...
...were upset because the club’s board had not discussed or voted on the issue. Although the G.O.P. included support for the FMA in its platform during the National Convention that summer, Lewis says that when school resumed there was still an “overhanging specter from the spring...