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...months away from the Bomb—it’s important to discover the right word to describe it. Did Bush exaggerate something true or did he just make it up? Did the White House purposely deceive us about Air Force One, or get confused? Did Rice assume Clarke would not come forward and feel free to lie about the administration’s awareness of the airliner threat? Or is it true that, as she now claims, she “misspoke...
Other highlights included freshman Jonathan Paul’s continued improvement, breaking the 4:00 mark in the 1500m and besting his time from the season’s first meet down at Rice by over two seconds...
NOTEBOOK: What Condoleezza Rice will tell us about 9/11, Bush 41's birthday bash, policing baseball fashion...
...fact, the very week that President Bush executed a spectacular backflip with a twist, agreeing after weeks of refusal to let National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testify publicly and under oath before the 9/11 commission, the polls suggested that his strategy of painting Kerry as a waffler was working, especially in battleground states, where Kerry's 28% advantage over Bush coming out of the primaries has all but disappeared. While the race remains very tight in most polls, some showed Kerry's unfavorable ratings climbing 10 points in the weeks since he secured the nomination. In a Los Angeles Times...
...helps Bush that when he backslides, he is typically shifting to a popular position from an unpopular one. He not only opposed Rice's testifying publicly before the 9/11 commission, on the ground of Executive privilege, but had opposed creation of the com-mission until the pressure from, among others, the victims' families became too hot. Yet any political damage, argues a senior Administration official, is "totally overwhelmed by the fact of her testifying." Bush is allowing another commission to investigate prewar intelligence on Iraq, which he had also opposed; wooing the U.N., which he had derided; and signed...