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...relationship with the U.S., meanwhile, is in transition. Though viewed with suspicion by some for his association with George W. Bush's democratic evangelism - "In some ways, he's the last neocon standing," says Lincoln Mitchell, a Georgia expert at Columbia University - Saakashvili remains close to Biden, who visited Georgia in August. A senior Obama Administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says that in private talks, Biden "spoke very candidly about the importance of acting on his promise to pursue political reforms." Saakashvili said he likes the new Administration. "I saw mostly second-term Bush," Saakashvili laments: the Bush...
...Tara W. Merrigan
...impact of the bickering is more than unseemly public flare-ups, mixed signals and muddled investigations; the conflict could hamper the government's ability to effectively protect against terrorism, the report said. In early 2007, President George W. Bush signed a Homeland Security directive known as HSPD-19 that required Executive Branch agencies to develop a unified approach "to aggressively deter, prevent, detect, protect and respond" to terrorists' efforts to use explosives in the U.S. The report concluded that, unless the DOJ addressed the problem, "competition between the components on fundamental issues involving explosives investigations and lead agency authority will...
...agencies don't dispute the problems. In a joint statement, FBI Assistant Director Michael Kortan and ATF Assistant Director W. Larry Ford agreed with the assessment and its 15 recommendations - all of them so far unresolved, according to the report. "We remain committed to identifying best practices associated with training, information-sharing and investigative response for explosive incidents," they said...
Five years ago, Solomon, who was frustrated with former President George W. Bush’s proposal to go to Mars, wrote a song entitled “Let’s Go to Mars.” He recorded it in the basement of the lab and entered it in NeilYoung.com’s “Living With War” song contest. A country parody written from Bush’s perspective, the song was the top-played on the Web site for about a month...