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Bush's panel was not chartered to question how the intelligence was used--but a Senate investigation might. Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee weighed a request by its top Democrat, Jay Rockefeller, calling for the Senate's probe of the CIA's Iraq intelligence to be broadened to examine whether Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Administration officials hyped or otherwise mischievously handled the evidence to build support for the war. Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, postponed action on Rockefeller's motion for at least a week while Roberts measured the mood in his ranks...
...protestors’ two-day trial began on Feb. 10. Tanaka, fearing a sentence of up to 30 days in jail, e-mailed his friends and asked them to come to the courtroom on Wednesday to show their support. Over half a dozen students answered Tanaka’s request...
McGarr officials did not return a request for comment yesterday...
...have called for a public airing of this issue, but our request has been ignored. Instead, the University delayed its announcement by two months, and then announced its intention to pay the fund manager bonuses, with a terse statement from the treasurer asserting that it’s in Harvard’s best interests to do so. He offered a review of the pay procedures, but made no promises to stop the current practice...
...evidence in an unsophisticated way. Many of the unpublished studies they reviewed came from the drug companies themselves, and at least some of those had been carried out for a very specific purpose. Under FDA rules, any company that tests its medications on young people at the FDA's request wins an extra six months' worth of patent protection, whether or not the results are positive. Since these studies were done for financial gain and weren't reviewed by independent scientists, they probably shouldn't be given full weight. Making them public, as activists demand, might muddy the waters rather...