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...control facilities were shutting down one by one. For a President who likes his facts straight and his decisions clean, the advice George W. Bush got from his top aides was no help at all. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge had spent the day wrestling with health czar Tommy Thompson over the science of the anthrax in question, including whether it was the fluffy, airborne, superdeadly kind, as Thompson believed--or something slightly less terrifying, as Ridge thought might be possible. Each had experts to back his conclusion. Their conflict wrapped the President in the true fog of war, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defender In Chief | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

Bush faced a sudden collapse of public faith in the men he had picked to run the home front, particularly the former swing-state Governors Ridge and Thompson. In days of briefings, neither had been able to get his arms around the crisis; both had a bad habit of raising more questions than they answered. They were each responsible for coordinating the efforts of agencies, from the FBI to the CDC to the Army's biowar researchers, that seemed unable or unwilling to share what they knew with one another. "The Toms let him down this week," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defender In Chief | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...such a Bush family taboo--it has been ever since Dad won the Gulf War only to lose re-election--that W. is about the last guy you'd expect to risk repeating the mistake. But so far his domestic generals--Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI chief Robert Mueller, Thompson and Ridge--have not found a way to coordinate their message or let just one voice deliver it. If they do, that person will have to start inspiring confidence, or he will do more harm than good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defender In Chief | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...THREAT Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said last week what worries him most is the safety of the nation's food supply, especially of imports, a concern reflected in all the talk in the makeshift antiterrorist war room he has opened in his Washington headquarters. Only a tiny fraction of the food coming into the U.S. undergoes inspection, officials note. One concern: imported gum arabic plants, the source of additives for many foodstuffs. These come largely from Sudan, once bin Laden's lair, via Canada, and because of the North American Free Trade Agreement may enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next? | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...Reported by Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, Mark Thompson and Karen Tumulty/Washington, J.F.O. McAllister/London, Hannah Beech/the Taloqan front, Anthony Davis/Jabal Saraj, Alex Perry/Tashkent, Johanna McGeary/Peshawar and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Kandahar

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: The War Escalates | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

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